My only problem with killing OBL is the loss of intel

[Taverner]

Granted, it would have been a hard call. Kill OBL, or risk having him escape again.

But if they had caught him, we might have been able to get intel on other Al Queda cells. Then again, we might not have.

President Obama made the most prudent, ethical (yes I went there) and intelligent decision. If it were Bush, IF he even cared about getting OBL, most likely they would have carpetbombed the city.

However, just because a decision is the most prudent, doesn't mean there aren't downsides to it.

OBL had a chance to turn himself in. From what I've read, he was even given the chance that night - although he might not have as well - the accounts of that night were soaked in adrenaline so who knows.

But even if they went in, and gunned him down, it was on the right side of ethics. He was a mass-murderer. He was known to be armed and dangerous. When police in the US face an armed, dangerous mass murderer, they do not hesitate to take that person down with a sniper. Same difference.