The Exception that Proves the Rule: OBL.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | May 11, 2011

No. 615

Pakistan is insulted that it wasn’t consulted before the US conducted a raid in its territory.

Answer: Get over it.  Talk to you and OBL would have been gone, probably forever.

Obama’s Adult Sons want to know why their father wasn’t arrested by the Americans and held for trial.

Answer: Its war and he was in Pakistan.

Was justice done?

Answer: A combatant (the commander in chief) in a war was neutralized.  Justice is irrelevant.

The question whether the killing of Bin Laden was legal under international law is succinctly discussed in the Huffington Post. Its worth reading.

CLT

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