What if the Obama raid had failed?

4 thoughts on “What if the Obama raid had failed?”

1. Surely the same people who are saying that the CiC’s role in the successful mission was minor, just a formality, and earns him no credit would also say that the CiC’s role in an UNsuccessful mission was minor, just a formality, and not his fault.

   Just like Reagan, the Republicans, and a majority of American voters obviously felt that the failed rescue mission was no reflection on the president, just on the military.

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2. which is I am guessing why Obama held 5 separate meetings with his national security team about this subject alone, why they prepared for a few months before pulling it off, and why the seals ran exercises designed around storming this particular compound many times before going in.

   High risk, hell yes, but incredibly well done too, and certainly not in any haphazard manner.

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3. That raid was short changed from the start.

   There is no comparison.

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4. You should see the number of comments over at redstate along this vein:

   To a great extent, [Bin Ladin’s] continued survival paradoxically enabled President Bush to wage a global war against jihadism. Had he actually been killed or captured in Afghanistan the pressure upon the Bush Administration to declare a triumphal end to a war only half begun would have been overwhelming. Though his continued presence politically damaged President Bush, arguably it damaged al Qaeda more by keeping the organization and its leader in the spotlight. The search for bin Laden has sent most of al Qaeda’s skilled troop commanders to hell, Guantanamo, or to scream out their secrets in obscure prisons in obscure countries. Strategic direction over the entire network has not been possible since the fall of Afghanistan.

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   To the contrary, I fear the death of bin Laden will give Obama the impetus to do what he has long wanted but lacked the guts to do: wind down the war against al Qaeda, close Guantanamo, and release most of the prisoners we hold a Guantanamo under the guise of “releasing prisoners of war.”

   Looks like our President just screwed the pooch; now the terrorists have won.

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