Obama and Osama

Even my Lib Dem friends (with one exception) who I thought would all be upset about the killing of Osama accept it as the only practicable solution. They all though deplore the way many Americans are cheering the killing. The view of these friends has not changed even after it has become clear that contrary to the initial reports Osama was unarmed and that he did not seek to use a woman as a human shield when they shot him. I still condemn the shooting and the fact that there was only one person in the Osama compound with a gun makes it even more incomprehensible as to why the US Seals did not take Osama alive. Arguments that to have done so would have invited hostage taking and the like are less than convincing when one knows that Al Quaeda will now have to retaliate by murdering people in order to show they are still a force to be reckoned with. We seem to have fallen into a vendetta which even the ancient Greeks realised was worse than futile. To kill Gaddafi as the commander of an army meting out death and destruction against his own people is seen by these Lib Dem types and possibly Obama as something wrong as is the killing of the pirates in the Indian Ocean. Why? Somebody has got something upside down and it sure as hell isn't me.