Here is that famous picture of the President and his top advisers in the White House Situation Room watching real-time TV from the Navy Seal attack on Osama bin Laden's compound outside Islamabad in Pakistan. Those brave soldiers each had a video camera on his helmet ... sending back virtual images of what was going on during the killing of bin Laden, his son, his wife, and as many as 19 others.
I doubt that few watching this bloody event had ever seen such drama as they were there and then experiencing. And consequentially, I also doubt if Obama and his posse will ever again react in quite the same detached and cerebral way again to our terrorist threat. At least, I hope not.
Update: We are now told that the video feed from this raid was cut off for these White House viewers for at least the critical 20-25 minutes. See: Here (And bin Laden's wife was only shot in the leg.) Now I know there is something called the "fog of war," but the communications out of the Obama administration about this bin Laden operation has been so sloppy and contradictory that I'm not sure now what to believe. I am embarrassed by their ineptness. (And why must we get this raid video factoid from the British press?)
Osama is still not coming down for breakfast
ReplyDeleteThe White House has revised this assessment ... now Osama won't be down for lunch. Oops, new intel ... now he won't be coming down to take his weekly bath.
ReplyDeleteActually, the blurriness is caused by the overzealous news coverage plus the fog of bloggers that distort every nugget of information to fit their ideology.
ReplyDeleteI think that, if you, DEN, did any research on the subject, most of the misinformation came out of John Brennan, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser and Chief Counterterrorism Coordinator. (He's standing behind Hillary in the photo.)
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