But if the killing of Osama bin Laden was illegal according to international law, the U.S. will lose a lot of their moral authority. We hear that he was unarmed. International law demands that if he's a combattant, he must be captured as POW. If he's a civilian, there's no legal basis for killing him either.
If there's no legal basis for this, then the message is: "There are no rules. Do what you want. The strongest will survive."
That
WAS the message back in the 1930s when Germany tried to take over the world. Today the message sent was that if you attack the U.S. you cannot hide behind a foreign government (with or without their help).
I'm gonna have to echo SC's words here. We are not dealing with a normal criminal here. This man told everybody what he was, told us what he wanted to do and what he had done in the past. However, I don't think he was just a threat to the U.S. I think he was a threat to the entire world as well. While I agree with the rules of international law, I don't think they hold water (pardon the pun) in the case of Osama Bin Laden. To me, Barack Obama and the people responsible for getting this absolute horror of a human being assassinated are heroes.
