(January 20, 2016 at 11:59 am)Ben Davis Wrote: I'd much rather he'd have been brought to justice. I understand the type of revenge thinking that drives people's emotions in this type of situation, the man was a sick murderer after all, but killing him with drones only gives ISIS another martyr and more political ammunition to fire at 'the evil and decadence of western democracies'. He kills, we kill in response; that makes us just as bad, doesn't it?
A big, public trial to highlight his atrocities followed by a full life sentence would provide us with the ability to demonstrate why his so-called 'messages' (aka. killings) were examples of the worst kind of inhumanity and then rob him of his chance for everlasting glory.
'Dead men can't talk' and now we've missed the opportunity to use his incarceration to send a powerful message in opposition to the death and destruction he advocated.
Considering the fact that the Repubs whined like babies at the thought of conducting terrorist trials in the US the best thing that could have happened was to blow his butt sky-high with a missile.
