speaking of poor arguments ?
pretend every scenario is exactly like killing Bin Laden ... got it.
Originally Posted by CJ7
Oops! Forgot I was talking to a part time idiot. The Bin Laden raid was nearly textbook. Only the principal and his guards got killed. No one from the town, not even a wife, was killed. That is a standard special ops raid. Now if only the White House could keep it's mouth shut about who, why, and how it is done. Your analogy was totally in the field of speculative fiction writing. Since Vietnam how many times has the US called in for a full scale aerial assault? I'll wait while you look it up......
Let me tell you a little Pakistan story; my ship was in Pakistan when the Iranian hostage crisis began. We were ordered to head for the Gulf as quick as we could get there. As soon as we left the riots began in Karachi. The embassy was burned and a Marine guard was killed. That is our ally.