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No soldier had a duty to take the slightest risk to his own life because Osama bin Laden promised to be good from now on.
If Bin Laden wanted to surrender, he could and should have done it sometime in the last decade. He could not do it by raising his hands during an attack on his compound.
It is pure foolishness to suggest that by going in on the ground, the U.S. turned its soldiers into policemen required to give Bin Laden "due process," place him "under arrest" and read him his Miranda rights.
Surrender isn't a human right. It's a privilege of lawful combat. Terrorists ... forfeit the special rights earned by lawful combatants, including the right to stop the shooting by raising one's hands in purported surrender.
Men who make war on innocent civilians and behead their prisoners live by a different law. They should expect to die by it as well.