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So we are supposed to believe a unnamed source who failed to do their job. The intel was bad because Foley was not there. This is why you need solid intel before going into a rescue mission your so called SF informant should know this. You claim the mission had been leaked so who else has your "informant" been running his mouth to?
originally posted by: paxnatus
I feel the need to clarify something, No classified info was shared with me period....It is all public knowledge...I know better than to put myself or him and buddies in that situation....As a highly trained soldier so does he!
Please do not think he broke any rules of OPSEC he didn't nor did I...Here are the public details ........maybe this will make you feel better....
hursday morning, Shaffer appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week. He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed because President Obama was slow to give the go-ahead:
I’m hearing from my friends in the Pentagon, they are giving him every single option way ahead of time. And let me give you a little secret here: The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale, and by the time we actually gave the “go” word it failed because we just didn’t react quick enough.
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Thank you for all you replies.
pax
originally posted by: CoolStoryMan
just went and checked the OP's thread history
filled with nothing but anti obama tripe, yet she somehow has an inside source that happens to share her viewpoint(that obama sucks).
do you really think the president of the united states is that stupid, knowing that something like that would leak, if it indeed did happen? please use your brain
originally posted by: HauntWok
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
The only problem is the military industrial complex pushing for constant war.
Maybe, just maybe, we don't need to put troops on the ground and get more of our sons killed for nothing.
Keep in mind, just a year and a half left.
9) Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are still much lower than dying from just about anything else.
He is anti America and anti military!!
Meaning he puts people in to combat and then does not support them!!
originally posted by: HauntWok
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
The only problem is the military industrial complex pushing for constant war.
Maybe, just maybe, we don't need to put troops on the ground and get more of our sons killed for nothing.
Keep in mind, just a year and a half left.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: paxnatus
Sure they may send a few operatives over here and blow a building up or two, but so what? The odds that you will be involved in that attack are negligible, and even if you do happen to win the unluckiest lottery in the world, then you are either A) dead (and why does it matter since you are incapable of caring anymore) or B) maimed (which means you aren't dead and get to keep on living YAY!)
So in essence, I agree with Obama here for not sending troops screaming back overseas to sit in a sandy country for another 8 - 10 years wasting taxpayer money.
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: paxnatus
Sure they may send a few operatives over here and blow a building up or two, but so what? The odds that you will be involved in that attack are negligible, and even if you do happen to win the unluckiest lottery in the world, then you are either A) dead (and why does it matter since you are incapable of caring anymore) or B) maimed (which means you aren't dead and get to keep on living YAY!)
So in essence, I agree with Obama here for not sending troops screaming back overseas to sit in a sandy country for another 8 - 10 years wasting taxpayer money.
OK...question. Your family is in that building...or two. Still agree with Obama? Will you still agree during the funeral with coffins filled with assorted body parts? And even if you lie and say "YES", what you are missing is that one building (or two...still can't believe you said that) is terrorism.
A bully picking on a "punk". Do you know what happens to a kid that is bullied? He is looked down upon. He is picked on some more and he doesn't have any money to buy lunch because it is taken along with being given a blackened eye. There are no teachers to stop it, there are no police to stop it...it happens. How do you stop a bully? When he comes up and demands your lunch money again...you punch him in the nose as hard as you can. Knock him on his ass and scare the piss out of him. Nothing else works. I know. I used to be the one who bullied the bullies in High School (many decades ago) because I HATED seeing people picked on.
Yes...we need to get to the point that we can ignore the middle-east and isolate a bit. But not because THEY want us to, but on our terms and because WE don't care what they do over there. But again...call us out...say good-bye.