terrorism/hostage operations all over the place. Dead he's a martyr. Alive he would have been a trouble magnet. Excellent points. Still I am uncomfortable with summary executions. So capture him and deny having done it? Keep him on a small island with no fresh water? Just a quick aside. My wife is from China, and she reads Chinese news sometimes. She said they've started putting bin Laden's "death" in quotes, basically suggesting strongly that they don't believe it happened. I'm not saying that I don't generally believe the provided story, I do, and good on Obama for getting the guy. But there are starting to be a lot of people around the world who don't believe it happened. I mean if you lived in China, knowing that your government lies and changes its story all the time, wouldn't you think changing our story all the time sounds awfully familiar, and probably means that it never happened at all? Plus, if there's freaking video of the whole thing, how could we ever have conflicting stories on what happened? After the first 8-12 hours, I mean? Are they totally incompetent, or were they lying? Is there another option? look Obama's job is to do what he needs to to keep Americans safe from terrorist attack, and knowing what bin Laden knew would be a nice step towards that goal -- what we're seeing is a man what is happy to have his government union whores sexually molest children at airports, but can't