Results: Apples and Oranges!
In this video, we compare the historic announcements made by President Obama and President tRump regarding the deaths of two infamous terrorists: Osama Bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Comparing the 2011 U.S. operation that killed Osama bin Laden with the 2019 raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which statement best reflects your view?
Bin Laden's death felt like a historic, defining moment - Baghdadi's was important but more of a tactical victory.
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161 votes
Both were necessary and justified, but neither should be "celebrated" as a triumph - just grimly accepted as part of counter-terrorism.
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224 votes
Baghdadi's death mattered just as much as bin Laden's, even if it got less attention and fewer speeches.
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81 votes
Bin Laden's killing was more symbolic - Baghdadi's removal did more to degrade an active, brutal organization on the ground.
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83 votes
Both operations raise serious moral and legal questions, regardless of who the targets were or what they'd done.
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66 votes
Undecided.
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299 votes
All of the above.
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159 votes
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