Let's be honest, this was almost a gigantic cluster fuck like Iran or Somalia. We even forgot to put gas in one of the choppers. (I hope I'm kidding about that but, seriously, didn't anybody give the thing a tune up before it went out on, like, their most important mission ever)?
We got lucky and Obama's call on this was only indicative of someone who had paid attention. Clinton bombed an asprin factory and GWB carpet bombed most of Afghanistan with the much vaunted "bunker busters" for months to no avail. I do give him respect for making this a targeted assault as opposed to the usual high level waxing we give problems like this. It's.... almost.... like... he... wants... to SOLVE... the probelm instead of fighting a fucking ground war against a decentralized enemy.... but, nah, we couldn't be learning from history could we?
I am not proud of this operation. I am amazed that our usually thuddingly bad intelligence and often incompetent special forces were able to pull this out.
Good job, America.
I respectfully disagree. This was a remarkably well-planned and executed foray. Hell, they even planned for a replacement helicopter if something went wrong!
The intelligence was meticulously pieced together, examined, verified as much as possible, and examined some more before the authorization was given.
Oh shit. Now you're going to piss off lilMike. Be prepared to be called names.
