Ned notes that many of his fellow countrymen are literally beside themselves with glee over the reported assassination of Bin Laden by U.S. troops. And Ned himself, while he would have preferred that the criminal be captured and brought to justice, thinks that, based on the limited evidence available to him, overall a rough, quasilegal, frontier-style 'justice' was done. But he, noting the prickliness of the Pakistanis over the apparent high-handed manner in which U.S. troops violated Pakistani air space and carried out the assassination in the sovereign territory of another country, would like to pose a philosophical question.
For years, a Cuban anti-Castro fanatic resided in the Miami area, a person whom the Cuban government was convinced carried out a bombing of a Cuban air flight, causing scores of innocent deaths. The U.S. government sneered at, and generally pooh-poohed the Cuban protests. Now, suppose a Cuban assassination team had infiltrated the U.S., stormed the house of the suspected terrorist, shot him dead, than left, proclaiming to the world that justice had been done.
What do Ned's friends think the response of the U.S. government to the Cuban government would have been?
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