Reply #37: I don't see the slope as slippery here

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No one's going to lose the right to trial in this country, for criminal charges, by arguing OBL did not get a trial.

We're being asked here to apply the Constitution overseas to someone who after all has been making war against us.

When it came to those at Guantanamo bay, they had been captured and brought out of the zone of battle.

But this is in the zone of battle. OBL was not going to be taken alive. There was so little chance of that happening. The SEALS do not deserve to be faulted here. It was their call in the end. I can't see how anybody can treat them with this level of scrutiny when they were going for OBL. Gee, you didn't do that job well enough. Just seems wrong to nitpick at them over how this particular mission turned out, pointing out how they did not pull of the near impossible and claiming they should have.