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Originally posted by Ryanamur:
And how many terrorist do you think we will bring to arms if we happen to kill lets say 5,000 civilians that Bin Ladden happened to be travelling with? I'm not debatting wether or not he should be killed. Of course he should. I'm just of the opinion that you would be creating a bigger problem if you kill him and many other civilians at the same time.
Think of it this way: why not just go in and drop a few A-bombs around Afghanistan, if he's still there, we'll get him sooner or later!
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I'm not saying that any amount of civilians should be killed just to kill Bin Laden, but if only ten or so civilians were in the area then I would have no problems ordering the airstrike, but if it was 5000 civilians then I would NEVER do it, first of all, 5000 lives is too big a price to pay to kill Bin Laden, second, as you said, THOUSANDS of people would be up in arms if it happened, if not tens of thousands.