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In reply to the discussion: Suppose a foreign leader had Osama bin Laden in her plane [View all]Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)this is a hypothetical exercise that Manny proposed.. and my first instinct was to say no (I even noted that in my original post.).. but I got side tracked for a few minutes.. and it gave me a second to reassess.. Bin Laden.. we knew Bin Laden had attacked the embassies.. we knew that.. the UN knew that.. hundreds dead.. that is just a fact.
Hypothetically we did not know at that time.. what was about to happen.. that we would be in a ten year war.. that hundreds of thousands of civilians would die.. over 5000 of our own soldiers.. and hundreds of thousands with injuries mental and physical in the service of our nation that we live in..
All that would have been an unknown at the time...even more so, I would have arrested Bin Laden.. he was a mass murderer on a incredible scale then.. and we knew he was targeting our country..
Looking back with 20/20 clarity... we see everything else that happened..
We are not relegating a war here.. I was always opposed to our going into Iraq from the get go.. but Bin Laden.. I would have arrested him in a heart beat.. even then..