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I cut you off before. >> one small point. i want to correct one thing that chris said. under the law of war, it is not murder to kill someone who is unarmed. as long as someone is a member oof a belligerent force and is not active tifly trying to surrender at that moment, you have a right to kill them. in the laws of war. >> dont go away. ♪ [ male announcer ] when you come to new york

Will evoke a stronger, more vicious type retaliation than if he had been taken alive? >> i think the fundamental problem is occupation within the middle east. remember, after the first gulf war, osama bin laden offered to come back to saudi arabia and help organize the defenses. he was turned down by the kingdom. we saw not only heavy occupation within kuwait, occupation of iraq, afghanistan, doha. and this is far more important. this is whats triggering that collective humiliation. thats fieldi...

Importance of the hague when it brought in figures like slobodan milosevic and others. >> by the hague, you mean the international criminal court? >> yeah. and i think we who believe the rule of law should be the foundation of a society, if there was any way we could have taken bin laden to the hague, it would have been a far better outcome than killi ining him. >> all right, steven, you have written about the law of war. do you agree that it would have been both preferable to do that, to use th...

Foundation of a society, if there was any way we could have taken bin laden to the hague, it would have been a far better outcome than killing him. >> all right, steven, you have written about the law of war. do you agree that it would have been both preferable to do that, to use the international criminal court as the means of prosecuting him? or do you think it was morally appropriate -- the premise is the seals went in there with a shoot to kill order. how do you assess this? >> well first of...

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