[Serious] Tit for tat.

[Pat Mustard]

It seems to me that the United States' killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri is just going to perpetuate the cycle of violence in our World, perhaps leading to a nuclear holocaust.  Why not take the high road and renounce extrajudicial executions?  In spite of being a mass murderer, as a human being, Ayman al-Zawahiri was still entitled to due process under the Law.  I find it ironic that President Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty, would authorize the deliberate killing of another human being.

That should have been the US's response from the word go. Make the dismantling of al-qaeda a police action where cops capture the murderers, their handlers and those that financed them to face justice in a court of law. And they could have done that by accepting, in the first place, the taliban's offer to capture bin Laden and deliver him, alive, to a third country who could extradite him to the US. The taliban hated bin Laden as much as the US did after 11/9/2001 and for much longer, he was a foreign agent disrupting their hold over Afghanistan for years.

But that would never have worked, because that would have lead to the total destruction of the bin Laden and bin Salman clans who had their claws stuck deep into the US body politic for years.