Now that Osama bin Laden is dead the inevitable questions arise as to whether the killing was legal or not? Was it? Do we care? Has the US stance on such matters changed?
Osama bin Laden was killed, not captured. If he had been taken into custody, what followed would have been the most complex and wrenching legal proceeding in American history. The difficulties would have been endless: military tribunal or criminal trial? Abroad—at Guantánamo?—or inside the United States? Would bin Laden have been granted access to the […]