Did killing Osama bin Laden do more harm than good

I do not know about that assessment. They are supposed to have some thing on the Discovery Channel tonight and from what I saw from the previews is Bin Laden was very hands on with his terrorist group. They just had lost a lot of their power with us being in Afghanistan and Iraq. So they were just weak as a group, but Bin Ladin was still pulling the strings.

You may be correct that not having Bin Laden may hurt politics, but I don't think it will hurt the country. Terrorist really don't need a reason to kill people, they just need the opportunity, and the will. Now, the fear of him will not be able to influence elections like it did in 2004 (ever wonder why we couldn't go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden under Bush, but then finally had a president that had the ball$ to go into Pakistan and kill him?). Republicans are questioning why Obama is using this, but Romney was the one that said the same thing that Bush did. Are you saying that it would have been better NOT to kill the man that masterminded 9/11? Ten years ago you could have been shot by some right wing radical for saying that, and that gunman probably would have got off. Funny how times have changed!!!

I think he was a murderer, and should have been brought to justice, perhaps he deserved their fate, but perhaps it would have been better than this sentence was handed down by a court. This would have prevented him to become a martyr, a martyr among killers and terrorists, maybe, but martyr, nevertheless. For inteligence purposes would have been important to question him, even if he was a despair old man by the time.

I don't know if you've ever watched Diggstown, but it's one of the most underrated boxing movies of all time. It's about a con man who goes into a town to stage a boxing match, pitting an old heavyweight, Honey Roy Palmer, against 10 of the town's finest men. Some of the men working for the man who took the bet were laughing about how lopsided it was, because Palmer was already a 48-year-old retired, supposedly washed-up boxer. But John Gilon, the man whose money was on the line, reminded everyone, "This is a man who knocks people unconscious with a single blow. I consider any such man extremely dangerous, even at 48 years old." bin Laden may have been old, he may have been worn down, but all it would have taken is for someone to underestimate him and to let their guard down. Boom. I'm sure it played in Obama's mind that this was an outstanding move for him politically if it went well. That's not saying that President Obama isn't patriotic and didn't believe bin Laden deserved it. But, admire the guy or shun him altogether, I believe any honest person will admit that he's the most political politician around. Everything he does is planned and programmed and beta tested and has at least two viable outs. He's Teflon as long as he stays on script. But taking him out was the right thing to do. It makes my head spin a little when some talk about America not dunking people in water or depriving them of sleep on principle. But at least most can agree that a monster as heinous as bin Laden needed to be exterminated on principle. I believe it should be a simple rule: If you choose to use your time on Earth to plot and carry out the mass murder of its inhabitants, we inhabitants should end your time on Earth.

It was Bush's policies and the Seals courage that got bin Laden. And the whole affair made it plain we cannot trust Pakistan. Obama is looking more and more like the jerk he is to more and more of the country. He's trying way to hard to be cool, like Fonzy at 50 still saying....whoa! And Rollo is right, he himmed and hawwed over the whole decision and Panetta had to force his hand. Rumor has it that Panetta gave the actual go ahead. We will never know for sure, but looking at Obama there in the corner, hunched over wondering if this was his Waterloo...very telling.

stealthy..I don't think we should worry about him being a martyr...he was an evil man who deserved to be killled. At the very least this could be a message that this evil will not be allowed...We can't start pandering to kooks who worship him....

I think killing their leaders won't really do any good since they will only have new leaders that will kill for revenge and their teachings were already instilled on their followers. They could have just captured him and negotiated.