re: Your position on "justifiable deaths"?

Ask Harry Truman's ghost.

For those saying "without a time machine..." without a time machine you don't know if you are going to be burned alive by acid fire when you get to work - so why get out of bed?

People make decisions, decisions that can cost or save lives every day with limited certainty of the outcome of the decision. It is called dealing with ambiguity - waiting until certainty is possible means waiting until an event is passed which is too late.

Why take a new job? You never know how it will come out? Why ask that cute girl to dance? She might not want to, might have a boyfriend, etc. Granted those are with lives at stake but the same premise is there.

You act with the best available data at the time and make a decision based on that and live with the outcome.

Clinton has said he knew Bin Laden was the number 1 security threat to the US; he also said he passed on the opportunity to get him because of the estimate of 300 hundred deaths. We know know what happened.