I try to be a good soldier and support the GWoT, but sometimes our government - and it's complete inability to act, when necessary - really pisses me off. And I'm not the only one.
Take Col. Hunt, for example.
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about — just for a moment — acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
If true, that's absolutely unbelievable.
The one guy that started this whole thing, the one guy who really puts a face on the GWoT, and we don't have the guts to take him out? What is that now, the tenth time?
Our SpecOps troops are brought up on charges for sniping terrorists, Marine units are removed from Afghanistan with the merest whiff of civilian casualties, Democrats have abandoned the war effort long ago and POTUS and our military leaders can't prosecute a simple strike to get the biggest HVT of all.
Utter and complete bullshit.
If our leaders in the war effort lack the courage or capability to prosecute this war to a successful conclusion, they either need to be relieved or we need to wave the Democrats white flag in the breeze. If we haven't learned by now fighting this war half-assed isn't working, it's time to go home.
If this is our warfighting strategy Mr. President and the Joint Chiefs, pull out our troops and we'll send in the lawyers to just sue them or something. And if this is our new strategy, stop and let me out, becasue I don't have the stomach for it.
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