Inept But Brilliant Prez Screws The Pooch

[cwo_ghwebb]

The Story of a Successful Rescue (and the Obama Adminstration’s Attempt to Claim Credit)


After taking fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the on-scene commander decided he’d had enough. Keeping his authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger to the hostage’s life and having heard nothing from Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue operation had been denied the day before, the Navy officer — unnamed in all media reports to date — decided the AK-47 one captor had leveled at Phillips’ back was a threat to the hostage’s life and ordered the NSWC team to take their shots.

Three rounds downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and Phillips was safe.

There is upside, downside, and spin-side to the series of events over the last week that culminated in yesterday’s dramatic rescue of an American hostage.

Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put paid to questions of the inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness.

Despite the Obama administration’s (and its sycophants’) attempt to spin yesterday’s success as a result of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort.

What should have been a standoff lasting only hours — as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location — became an embarrassing four-day-and-counting standoff between a rag-tag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.

On Friday, April 9, as the standoff reached the end of its third day, I called on President Obama to take action to free the American hostage from his Somali captors. I outlined three possible operational tactics that could be used to do so; number 1 was the following:

(1) 2 helos, 2 snipers each: pop the [pirates] in their heads, then drop a rescue swimmer to escort the hostage up to one of the choppers. This works best if the hostage is aware of what is happening and can help without getting in the way — say, by hopping overboard as the gunships near, to divert attention and get out of the line of fire.
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(This was written before the USS Bainbridge tethered the life raft to its stern, an action which eliminated the need for helicopters.)

However, instead of taking direct, decisive action against the rag-tag group of gunmen, the Obama administration dilly-dallied, dawdled, and eschewed any decisiveness whatsoever, even in the face of enemy fire, in hopes that the situation would somehow resolve itself without violence. Thus, the administration sent a clear message to all who would threaten U.S. interests abroad that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has no idea how to respond to such situations — and no real willingness to use military force to resolve them.

Any who think they weren’t watching every minute of this are guilty — at best — of greatly underestimating our enemies.

Like the crew of the Alabama, which took swift and decisive action to take back their own ship rather than wait for help from Washington that they knew could not be counted on, Captain Phillips took matters into his own hands for the second time in three days, leaping into the water to create a diversion and allowing the NSWC team to eliminate his captors. The result, of course, was the best that could possibly be expected: three pirates dead, the captain unharmed, and a fourth Somali man who had surrendered late Saturday night in custody.

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This Prez is starting to sound like Cassius Clay, "I am the greatest!"

 

[Larry Gude]

This Prez is starting to sound like Cassius Clay, "I am the greatest!"

At least Clay was.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Probably a lot closer to the truth than other scenarios I have read.

 

[Nonno]

Pajamas Media » The Story of a Successful Rescue (and the Obama Adminstration’s Attempt to Claim Credit) This Prez is starting to sound like Cassius Clay, "I am the greatest!"

My my, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Pajamas Media!

I particularly liked the reference to, "the Obama administration and its supporters" being a little old Harvard lady! The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers | POLITICO.com

 

[This_person]

My my, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Pajamas Media!

I particularly liked the reference to, "the Obama administration and its supporters" being a little old Harvard lady! The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers | POLITICO.com

Now, that's funny right there - a serial HuffPo poster having a problem with Pajamas Media!

Is there a difference, beyond ideology?

 

[Toxick]

My my, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Pajamas Media!

HAH!

HAH!
Look who the #### is talking.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

My my, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Pajamas Media!

I particularly liked the reference to, "the Obama administration and its supporters" being a little old Harvard lady! The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers | POLITICO.com

Learn to read, comprehend, and analyze other sources of information other than the PuffintonPost.

You then just might be on your way to becoming a cogent human being, grasshopper.

 

[Nonno]

Learn to read, comprehend, and analyze other sources of information other than the PuffintonPost. You then just might be on your way to becoming a cogent human being, grasshopper.

Just in case you want to see what "the Obama administration and its supporters" look like, here's a pic.

 

[Lenny]

Fair warning about Nono....

Just in case you want to see what "the Obama administration and its supporters" look like, here's a pic.

...don't even try to debate him. He's a master debater.