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.
Planned for a backup chopper? Redundancy of escape is not really super-warrior-brain thinking, it's kinda basic. Still, I don't want to totally take away from it. Things like this are hard-- and Power Team USA has a history of spectacular public failures...so we got that going for us.
The intelligence was indeed key.... it's just it's been so bad for so long and so wildly insensitive to what was actually happening in the region that this seems like an aberation in the face of a hundred WMD fallacies. Again, I was amazed.
