Max, "any steps" is one thing. War is another. Although my "score" in the political attitudes test is in the middle of the libertarian left, I am, as you know, on the "right" of the list, being an unabashed bourgeois liberal democrat. But it is _because_ I am a bourgeois liberal democrat that I have a fetishistic attachment to the rule of law, due process, and that sort of tedious stuff. The T offered to hand over try ObL if presented with evidence. We might have called them on it, but no, Bush said, "Hand 'em over, we don't negotiate, we know he's guilty." Maybe the T would have choked had we offered evidence, we'll never know. The fact is, that something had to be done, but not what we did. When a crime is committed, you don't flatten the suspect's neighborhood, even if his neighbors are bad guys. You follow the well-established rules for a criminal investigation. And you do that _whatever_ the bereaved may say, because we have law and not vendetta.
jks
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