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You know, the Geneva Convention states that captured non-war combatants must be given procedural protections (hence the establishment of military tribunals). Now, whether those procedural protections necessarily entail miranda is another question, especially when you consider the extra-territoriality of the actions and the non-US citizen.
I think yes, the US should have tried to capture him--both for intelligence value and to show the world that the US still believes in justice, equality, rule of law yadda yadda. The end result would probably be the same though. A dead Osama. One would have probably just taken 14 years and 5 appeals.
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Originally Posted by Lieber Code on the laws of war
"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God."
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