Thoughts from UK: Satisfaction and Praise

Reaction in Britain to the killing of Osama bin Laden has been generally greeted with satisfaction and praise for the Seals who carried out the raid. The overwhelming view is that it was right to kill him rather than bringing him to trial. A trial would have resulted in lengthy propaganda from bin Laden and his supporters. His eventual imprisonment would have been an open invitation to take hostages for his release. There has already been a march of three hundred Muslims (many of whom would have been British citizens) marching through London in protest at the killing.

There have of course been the usual lefties and liberals condemning the killing as denying bin Laden his human rights. The Archbishop of Canterbury has said it has left him with a “very uncomfortable feeling”. He was appointed Archbishop by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair and obviously follows Labour/Liberal principles. None of these people recognize the fact that bin Laden and his murderers never gave a thought to their victims’ human rights. Neither do they acknowledge that bin Laden has admitted many times that he was the instigator of the atrocities and that a trial would be superfluous. Some have even said that killing bin Laden was a mistake as it would provoke further attacks – I do not think that the terrorists need provoking. Some have compared this with the Nuremberg trials after WW2, but in those cases we had to prove that the Nazi leaders were guilty by judicial process, and in any case they did not pose any further threats.

A commentator in the Daily Telegraph, although congratulating America, deplored the scenes of Americans celebrating in the streets as demeaning America. I reminded him that I, and thousands of jitterbugging American soldiers, were among thousands, probably millions, who crammed into the heart of London to celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Winston Churchill was on the Buckingham Palace balcony that day.

Much anger has been been directed towards Pakistan which is seen, according to our Prime Minister, to be “looking both ways” at terrorism. It is said that Pakistan has an army of 600,000 so it is difficult to understand why it has been unable to eliminate terrorists and did nothing to remove the Taliban, which took over a large area, until America forced it to do so.

The only thing that has marred this occasion has been the many different explanations coming from the White House. If only they had been as precise as the Seals.

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