The thing that bothers me the most about the "kill before warning" approach to both the Tikriti/Husseins and bin Laden/senior al-Qaeda leaders may be best summed up by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride:
"Dead men tell no tales."
In this instance, I really want to hear what the various parties have to say for themselves, because I suspect it'll be about as bad as, say, finding a smoking gun in the archives about Joe McCarthy being a KGB agent. :)
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Date: 2003-08-04 08:54 pm (UTC)"Dead men tell no tales."
In this instance, I really want to hear what the various parties have to say for themselves, because I suspect it'll be about as bad as, say, finding a smoking gun in the archives about Joe McCarthy being a KGB agent. :)