I'd only fault it for being too honest. If bin Laden comes in alive then someone has screwed up badly.
So, rather than duck the hard question, he hasn't been political enough.
So, rather than duck the hard question, he hasn't been political enough.
If the Americans catch bin Laden, best case scenario for him is that he can die a martyr, therefore best case scenario for the Americans is they catch him alive, throw him in jail and let him rot - if he wants to die, he can commit a humiliating suicide. The Egyptians made a capital mistake back in the sixties when they hanged Qutb instead of just letting him rot in prison, and are still paying the price for it. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll be able to resist the pressure to execute him, but still a formal execution after a trial is better than killing him in a firefight.
AG Eric Holder evades questioning
- 17/03/2010 05:34:40 PM
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Why should he be read miranda rights?
- 17/03/2010 05:50:29 PM
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Why should location matter when dealing with a borderless threat like al-Qaeda? *NM*
- 17/03/2010 10:20:08 PM
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You'd rather he walk free on a technicality?
- 17/03/2010 11:28:30 PM
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- 18/03/2010 07:14:56 AM
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Last I checked, al-Qaeda isn't a party to the Geneva Convention.
- 18/03/2010 09:16:15 AM
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That only means they are not entitled to its protections - in other words, they are fair game.
- 19/03/2010 10:25:50 PM
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Well, I guess it depends whether you want to try him, doesn't it?
- 19/03/2010 11:34:34 PM
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*shrugs*
- 17/03/2010 11:10:47 PM
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That doesn't seem very logical
- 18/03/2010 12:03:21 AM
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That is honest and it wouldn't be "dumb" (I assume you actually mean stupid, rather than mute)
- 18/03/2010 12:19:58 AM
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It is very possible
- 18/03/2010 02:12:21 AM
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Re: It is very possible
- 18/03/2010 02:31:59 AM
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You do remember "I do not recall" Gonzalez right? *NM*
- 18/03/2010 02:38:48 AM
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Actually not really, I was out of the country for almost his entire tenure
- 18/03/2010 02:41:13 AM
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Pretty much there was some political firings of Us Attorneys
- 18/03/2010 02:56:01 AM
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I remember a little of that
- 18/03/2010 03:16:27 AM
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Gonzales flat out lied to congress
- 18/03/2010 03:29:14 AM
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Seems he could answer the question without evasion or producing a soundbite
- 18/03/2010 04:12:04 AM
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I don't think I agree with that.
- 18/03/2010 02:04:48 PM
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Fair enough
- 18/03/2010 02:40:42 PM
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You guys are forgetting the intel aspect.
- 18/03/2010 09:40:53 PM
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do we know how much he actually knows?
- 18/03/2010 09:49:50 PM
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Kinda hard to find out if he knows anything if he's dead *NM*
- 18/03/2010 09:56:18 PM
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that was totally not my question 
- 19/03/2010 12:10:06 AM
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- 19/03/2010 12:10:06 AM
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Most people include congressmen/women don't understand Miranda rights,most people don't know the Law
- 18/03/2010 02:08:10 AM
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I can understand why he'd want to evade answering.
- 18/03/2010 03:23:04 AM
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I can understand why statesman would want to avoid painting himself into a corner.
- 29/03/2010 02:26:34 PM
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