Someone get Boba Fett!

From The GOP's Lonely Anti-War Candidate:

In the wake of September 11th, Paul supported the authority and the funding to go after Osama bin Laden. "What I did not support," he said, "was going into nation-building and the occupation of two Muslim countries, and then allowing bin Laden to go into Pakistan -- a country that is our ally and we send money to." At the time, what Paul actually wanted instead of war was for Congress to grant Letters of Marquee and Reprisal, a Constitutional decree that would have allowed private sources or bounty hunters to pursue bin Laden.

Or Dog the Bounty Hunter? haha

H/T to Conservative Heritage Times

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In all seriousness... would bounty hunters have been able to get Osama? Blackwater or any of the other PMC companies? John Rambo? Assassins-for-hire? My guess is still that getting mired in Afghanistan was a mistake--would it have been possible to send in special forces to take out AQ, while using the regular armed forces to hold the Taliban at bay? It's not like the Taliban had complete control of the country, iirc--we could have formed alliances with the local warlords and used special forces to do the more "delicate" work of finding AQ and destroying it, I think.

But what about the political issues? Could we enter the territory of another country and violate its sovereignty without declaring war? But even if we did declare war, that would not commit us to nation-building and establishing democracy--we could have just declared war in order to have a lawful sanction for our actions against AQ and the Taliban, and then withdrawn from the country once AQ was destroyed.

Perhaps there are some military experts out there who have provided alternate plans for handling AQ in Afghanistan.