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logo    Apprehending Osama bin Laden


How would Americans react if the tactics used by the police in attempting to apprehending murderers resulted in the additional deaths of one and the wounding of five policeman, along with the deaths of eight and the wounding of forty uninvolved persons?

Do you think that Americans would find such numbers acceptable?

Well that is what has happened in our attempt to get Osama bin Laden, and we haven't gotten him yet.

Does it really make any sense to kill and maim more people while trying to capture a criminal than the criminal himself killed and maimed?

On, 9/11, about 3,000 Americans were killed. Since then, in trying to avenge their deaths, more than 4,500 Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 30,000 have been maimed. We are killing and maiming more of our own than Al Qaeda did.  These wars are clearly a case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. (7/24/2005)