Was Osama bin Laden A Hero to Dennis Marks?

According to a delusional moron known as Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks), OBL is a "hero" to your's truly. The following Dennis' comment is in regards to a post by Willis Hart on "reforming" the Pentagon...

Dennis Marks: What makes it harder is that there are some (WD sides with) who want such reform not to save money, but to make the nation weak and strengthen our enemies such as his hero Bin Laden. (3/13/2014 at 3:12am).

Actually, I think the evidence points to bin Laden being Dennis' hero. Or having been his hero. It isn't clear from the comment above if Dennis knows bin Laden is dead. In any case, the former al Qaeda leader is (or was) surely more a hero to Dennis then to me. I favored bringing him to justice 10 years before Obama located him and gave the order to take him out.

The Taliban actually offered to turn bin Laden over to a neutral third party for trial, but Dennis (as well as his buddy Willis) rejects the idea that such a court would have convicted OBL. In fact, they LOL and insist that such a tribunal would have set bin Laden free.

That is despite the experts saying otherwise. Gareth Porter, an investigative journalist and historian specializing in US national security policy, believes trial by an Islamic organization would have arguably reduced the appeal of bin Laden and al-Qaeda enormously throughout the Islamic world. Also, having Osama tried by Islamic jurists and by an Islamic international organization would have been an enormous advantage, in that the Islamic world would have accepted the verdict as legitimate.

Surely we could have tried this route, which could not have worked out any worse than what we did end up doing, which was to allow OBL to escape at Tora Bora. And this argument of Dennis that allowing OBL to be tried by a neutral third country would have been completely unacceptable points to, I believe, Dennis' strong desire that OBL be allowed to remain free.

Given Dennis' preference that OBL be free over a chance to bring him to justice, I find it much more likely that bin Laden is Dennis' hero. The only question now is, did Dennis cry when OBL was killed?

TADM #28. See also TADM #33 and SWTD #240.