![]() They are proud warriors, fierce friends, devoted husbands and pretty stiff actors. Initiated not in a Hollywood studio but in a Pentagon PR office, and starring a half-dozen SEALs identified only by their first name and rank - Lieutenant Commander Rorke, Special Warfare Operative Chief Dave, SPO First Class Ajay and others called Weimy, Sonny and Mikey - Act of Valor offers further insights into these nonfiction action figures. (MORE: See all of TIME’s 2012 Oscar coverage here) If they monogrammed the skull of the 9/11 CEO, it must be because their President had ordered them to bring him the head of Osama bin Laden. Having seen Act of Valor, the vigorous, amateurish action movie in which active-combat SEALs play something like themselves on dangerous missions around the world, I can deduce one answer to those troubling questions. Why was the ailing, 54-year-old al Qaeda leader not taken alive - subdued, detached from his dialysis machine and remanded to custody? And if urgent exigencies demanded his assassination, why was bin Laden shot in the head, rendering photographic proof of his death officially unpublishable? Instead of aiming for the heart when they confronted the bad guy in Abbottabad, had some SEAL members gone suddenly vengeful, aimed higher and kept on shooting, because the bastard deserved it? ![]() Follow May, when President Obama announced that members of Navy SEAL Team Six had found and killed Osama bin Laden in northeastern Pakistan, questions quickly arose. ![]()
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