Is anyone unnerved by all the information that is being released about what was discovered in bin Laden's den, and I don't mean the herbal viagra? Like warning all the other terrorists (support system) that we've got all their phone numbers?
VD Hanson says we shouldn't be confused by the administration's contention that it is in keeping with our values that we plug a guy in the head but it's not in our values to waterboard a guy to find out if he's planning on killing thousands of Americans:
It’s also easier to conduct assassinations abroad if the Commander-in-Chief is liberal. This neutralizes criticism from the media, universities, the legal community, and Hollywood. Obama the law professor can assassinate bin Laden in Pakistan, dump his body in the ocean, and with first-person emphasis boast of our brilliant mission in a way Bush the Texan could not get away with—in the same manner that killing the son of Qaddafi, and the effort to kill Qaddafi himself, are not really forbidden targeted assassinations under Obama, and in the manner that Guantánamo, tribunals, renditions, preventive detentions, Predators, wiretaps, and intercepts that so bothered Senator Obama and others are now deemed essential.
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