Obama missed a great opportunity to kill the War on Terror if Hersh story true

[yurbud]

If Sy Hersh's story is true, bin Laden wasn't "protected" by guards; the guards were there to keep him from escaping.

Since we negotiated with Pakistan for the right to get him, we could just as easily have taken him alive.

One photo of him in jail cell would have broken the spell of the War on Terror, the way the first photo of the Unabomber or Peruvian Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman caged like an animal did for both of those shadowy terrors did.

Additionally, a live bin Laden could have been interrogated about which states funded and helped him with the 9/11 attacks and the like.

Instead, Obama chose the path that would cause the least ripples in the War on Terror:

Kill him.

Claim victory.

No photos.

[notadmblnd]

1. They didn't want Bin-Ladin talking to anyone

let alone interrogated. TPTB know all they want to know as to who funded the 9/11 attacks. They certainly didn't want OBL giving a different narrative.

[gratuitous]

2. He missed a great opportunity on January 21, 2009

But we're lookin' forward to the future, not backwards to the past. No admission of error or wrongdoing on our part, a stamp of approval on everything his predecessor did, and the stage is all set for a resumption of the worst activities from the Bush/Cheney reign of error should the Republicans regain the White House.

We've settled for some pretty paltry ends considering the loathesome means we've used to achieve them.

[Solomon]

3. The second guessing is endless.

Capturing Bin Laden would NOT have ended the war on terror. I can just see scores of Americans held hostage in other countries while extremists demand the release of Bin Laden.

[yurbud]

6. did that happen when we arrested, tried, and imprisoned the guys who did the 1993 WTC bombing?

[Octafish]

4. That's the Big Secret that no one wants to talk about.

The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Seymour M. Hersh
London Review of Books, Vol. 37 No. 10 · 21 May 2015

EXCERPT...

The most blatant lie was that Pakistan’s two most senior military leaders – General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI – were never informed of the US mission. This remains the White House position despite an array of reports that have raised questions, including one by Carlotta Gall in the New York Times Magazine of 19 March 2014. Gall, who spent 12 years as the Times correspondent in Afghanistan, wrote that she’d been told by a ‘Pakistani official’ that Pasha had known before the raid that bin Laden was in Abbottabad. The story was denied by US and Pakistani officials, and went no further. In his book Pakistan: Before and after Osama (2012), Imtiaz Gul, executive director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies, a think tank in Islamabad, wrote that he’d spoken to four undercover intelligence officers who – reflecting a widely held local view – asserted that the Pakistani military must have had knowledge of the operation. The issue was raised again in February, when a retired general, Asad Durrani, who was head of the ISI in the early 1990s, told an al-Jazeera interviewer that it was ‘quite possible’ that the senior officers of the ISI did not know where bin Laden had been hiding, ‘but it was more probable that they did [know]. And the idea was that, at the right time, his location would be revealed. And the right time would have been when you can get the necessary quid pro quo – if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States.’

CONTINUED...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

The US has a lot of explaining to do, going back to 1947.

[TheKentuckian]

5. Obama has no such inclination he just wants it a little more out of sight and out of mind

A bigger but less deep footprint for the interventionist agenda.

[MohRokTah]

7. "if Hersh story true"

It isn't.

[yurbud]

8. Hersh has far more credibility than just about anybody in Washington

[MohRokTah]

9. His story is complete bullshit.

It's been debunked multiple times already.

He's dragged himself down into Alex Jones territory.

[yurbud]

10. by who? The MSM that sold us Bush's lies?

[MohRokTah]

11. .

Say hello to Alex for me.

[Hobo]

12. The article is a steaming turd...

C'mon the New Yorker would not even publish this drek......I wonder how many more places Hersh pedaled this bunk to before the London outfit decided to raise some money by publishing it. Click bait

Hobo