Bin Laden Death A Trdgedy?

[youngmafbog]

Well now we begin to see tge true side of the left.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216437/Labour-leadership-favourite-Jeremy-Corbyn-said-assassination-9-11-mastermind-Osama-Bin-Laden-tragedy.html

[-Talbot-]

It has nothing to do with spelling, The chair.
You are only allowed 12 letters (unless it has changed)


anotheoldgit.

[andy-hughes]

Shall we try and keep the posts about the OP, and not start another tiresome tirade of attacks on individual AB'ers on the basis of posts on other threads?

[mikey4444]

Thanks Ed.

[-Talbot-]

? ^^

[Baldric]

Mikey got a post by Baz removed on 1st page

[andy-hughes]

I think the death of Bin Laden is an emotive subject, and it is very easy to take observations about it out of context, as I believe has happened here.

It is not just that Mr Corbyn thinks that the death is a tragedy - the point he is making is that he believes that the absence of a trial is the tragedy, which is not at all the same as the way his opinion has been interpreted.

[mikey4444]

Well said Andy...what a pity others couldn't see that. Corbyn may not be everybody's cup of tea, which is hardly surprising when you consider the overwhelmingly right wing views on AB. But to suggest, as some have, that he was in some way a supporter of Bin Laden is laughable.

[jim360]

While Corbyn might have a bit of a point I don't agree that Bin Laden's death was a "tragedy" -- far too strong a word in the circumstances. Regrettable, perhaps. Even those who dismiss the idea of holding a trial would probably (hopefully) admit that, in theory at least, a trial would have been preferable. It's just that valid points such as practical concerns over expense, security considerations, etc etc aren't so easily dismissed, and holding a trial would have been practically very difficult indeed. Since just about every country in the West would want to charge him anyway, I could well imagine extradition claims dragging things out for years and years.

On the other hand, killing him hasn't achieved much either. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban function effectively without him. ISIS are a separate group anyway. And the damage he had done had long since already happened. It's some very little justice for his victims, though, and the world will certainly not miss him.

[flobadob]

Where is the proof that he had anything to do with 9/11, there is always a scapegoat. As far as I know free speech is not punishable by death.

[jno]

jim, I think what Corbyn was saying, in brief, was that the tragedy was that gun law took precedence over the rule of law. I wouldn't personally have cared if he'd been held in a dungeon somwhere for 50 years haggling over extradition; but at least one better procedure would have been what happened to Eichmann: trial and sentence

[andy-hughes]

jno - I agree, I think that is where Mr Corbyn is coming from.

When it is quite clear from his point that he is talking about the death in a wider context, than simply the death itself, it is easy to see how his detractors have taken his observations in isolation to make cheap political capital.

[mikey4444]

jno...I agree.