Reply #63: He declared war on our country and our people. It's not immoral

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to kill him given those facts. He is no different than any other leader who has ever declared war on us. Would it have been immoral to kill Hitler? Of course not. OBL was a man without a country, but he was the leader of a powerful terrorist group and with that power behind him he had declared war not only in words but also in deed. Are you arguing that he was justified in declaring war on Americans and attacking us because of our government's actions? I hope not.

It can be argued that we could have prevented OBL from murdering innocent people by taking better actions, but a right-winger could also argue that Timothy McVeigh would have never murdered innocent people if only Janet Reno hadn't killed those people at Waco. And what about Eric Rudolph who murdered and maimed innocent people because of his strong opposition to abortion? It could be argued that Rudolph would have never become enraged if we had just outlawed abortion, so it's all the fault of America that he did it. Of course, these argument are insane. There's no justification for what they did, and there is no justification for what OBL did.

OBL had to be killed because he was at war with us and was set on murdering more of us. We were morally right to kill him. That doesn't mean, however, that everything America has done and is doing is morally right.