""If we'd had him stand trial, he'd wind up dead too, but there would have been a whole lot of stuff in between, possibly including more deaths and things going "boom". And terrorist killings of innocents of another country are NOT simple crimes.""

A very pragmatic point of view Jeri, but the killings have started, and whatever Bobad thinks (and his record is far from unbiased), the fact that they were Pakistani deaths doesn't mean they can simply be written off as irrelevant.

And riding roughshod over the sovereignty of another country is NOT a simple crime.

In terms of the effect on other allies who were neither informed nor consulted, I can only hope that the inevitable retaliation will be selectively targetted.

I'm sorry, but that to me seems only fair.

Don T.