Reply #35: The bigger "PUBLIC RELATIONS" disaster would have been to [View All]

hold the body and disrespect the Muslim religious beliefs by holding the body for more "verification". Who would be the credible "verifiers"? What security and logistics risks would that entail? How would we deal with millions of outraged moderate Muslims around the world who would be disgusted by our "verification parade"?

Of course, we have the evidence, video, testimonial, DNA. Waiting and getting a big gang of westerners to "verify" the body would have made this nothing more than a symbolically ghoulish circus spectacle out of the event.

I know it's hard for some people to do, ( they want to see, touch and feel for themselves), that is, hard to trust the President and the military chain of command, but for once, let's just trust the science, the video, and the testimony of the people on the ground. We do ourselves no favors by amplifying the verification process to the point where it hurts the sensibilities of millions more moderate Muslims around the world. We treated the body with traditional Muslim respect, and that is the proper thing to have done.