Apprehending Osama bin Laden

How would Americans react if the tactics used by the police in attempting to apprehending murderers resulted in the additional deaths of 1 and the wounding of 5 policeman, along with the deaths of 8 and the wounding of forty uninvolved persons?

Do you think that Americans would find such numbers acceptable?

Well that is what has happened in our attempt to get Osama bin Laden, and we haven’t gotten him yet.

Does it really make any sense to kill and maim more people while trying to capture a criminal that the criminal himself killed and maimed?

© 2005 John Kozy, Jr.