Yeah, I was very much against releasing the photos of shot-up Bin Laden.
Every sane person knows he's dead.
If a conspiracy theorist thinks he isn't, no amount of data will weaken their resolve in the least. So why do it?
You become like your enemy if you change your behavior to meet theirs. Same reason I am against torture (which played almost no role in the finding of Bin Laden anyhow...they found him with good old-fashioned detective work). We've always held ourselves up as being more noble than most. Time to show we don't have to lower ourselves to torturing people...or to showing gruesome photos of our trophies.
And anyhow, the point is now officially mute: Al Qaida itself has acknowledged the death.
Case closed. Good call.
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