What does the word "value" even mean in relation to a human life anyway?
The elimination of Bin Laden was made one of the top priorities of huge, well-funded US institutions that are habituated to pragmatic murder, torture and kidnapping with scant regard to rights or foreign sovereignty.
Once his whereabouts were known and the pragmatic barriers (diplomacy, media profile, feasibility) were surmounted I rather doubt the ethical questions were even considered. If so, by what "conscience"? Obama's? I rather beg to differ; he had little room to move under the circumstances.
It's a mistake to tally up the ethical score of a corporation. One cannot reason with corporations, only create, dismantle, fund or bluntly regulate them. The US military establishment is, among its many varied aspects, a murder corporation.
The speculation I've increasingly heard is that the crucial moment of discretion regarding Bin Laden's fate, if there truly were one, probably lay with as yet unnamed representatives of the Pakistani ISI.
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Date: 2011-05-03 02:26 pm (UTC)The elimination of Bin Laden was made one of the top priorities of huge, well-funded US institutions that are habituated to pragmatic murder, torture and kidnapping with scant regard to rights or foreign sovereignty.
Once his whereabouts were known and the pragmatic barriers (diplomacy, media profile, feasibility) were surmounted I rather doubt the ethical questions were even considered. If so, by what "conscience"? Obama's? I rather beg to differ; he had little room to move under the circumstances.
It's a mistake to tally up the ethical score of a corporation. One cannot reason with corporations, only create, dismantle, fund or bluntly regulate them. The US military establishment is, among its many varied aspects, a murder corporation.
The speculation I've increasingly heard is that the crucial moment of discretion regarding Bin Laden's fate, if there truly were one, probably lay with as yet unnamed representatives of the Pakistani ISI.