Spurlock on the hunt for Bin Laden

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by cpayne5

There are also pros to not catching him, too. While he is still alive he will be the leader of Al Qaeda; he will call all the shots. This is not something you would want to disrupt *if* you were able to intercept every piece of communication he has outside of his cave (and act on it).

If you kill him, you lose that intel. Not only will it throw a very volatile group into a chaotic state (more so than they already are) with multiple factions jockeying for control, but you would also need to act quickly and try to get yourself into a position with the new leader(s) and start intercepting communications like you were with UBL. The bottom line is that by keeping UBL alive may keep us safer than killing him.

This was often the argument for keeping Sadam Hussein in power, as well. Yeah, he was a psycho, but he's a known psycho.

[SmootSmack]

Better the devil you know, I guess.

Spurlock is going to take Bin Laden to McDonalds, give him a supersized Big Mac meal, clog his arteries, heart attack, done.

[dmek25]

how do you think his approval ratings would be, if in one of the last days in office, he announced that he had Bin Laden? he would like a hero

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by dmek25

how do you think his approval ratings would be, if in one of the last days in office, he announced that he had Bin Laden? he would like a hero

Bush's ratings would go up, but he wouldn't be a hero. Iraq and the economy have left a sour taste in everyone's mouths. In any event, I'm sure this won't happen. Weren't a lot of lefty conspiracy theorists convinced he was going to announce Bin Laden's death/capture right before the last election?

[hooskins]

Does it even matter if Bin Laden is dead? That is a rhetorical question, because the answer is no, IMO. Bin Laden claiming responsibility for 9/11 made him the "figure" anti-Western terrorist. he is not just a person, but an idea, a belief that unites a huge amount of people against us.

To me it doesn't matter if you kill any kind of head terrorist, because there is another one waiting in line to take reigns, and there are thousands of kids who are educated in radical Islam waiting to take their own lives for whatever that leader says.

If anything killing Bin Laden will only increase the resolve of terrorists abroad, by motivating them. What we really need to do is change our role and basically show the younger kids of those regions the US is not the devil. It is hard as hell, and will probably not be solved in my lifetime but that is what needs to be done.