Originally Posted by
Shinn Kamiyra
@bold: If Bin Laden's body is kept in one piece, that's exactly how Al-Qaida will view it and, as I already said, do all that's in their power to retrieve it. While the dead should certainly be deemed with a certain level of respect, exceptions have to be made when a dead man's body will be used as a tool to further fuel their rage and incite even more deadly attacks.
Besides, even assuming that we do keep Bin Laden's body in one piece, where exactly are we to bury it that Al-Qaida wouldn't go to the ends of the Earth to get? Are we to simply let the location or even the specifics of the body fade into obscurity?
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