02-24-2017, 10:26 AM
(02-24-2017, 01:27 AM)Dill Wrote: Whoa! Obama didn't plan a "specific day." That is not possible in the case of a raid on people who may be traveling frequently in the region. At least 48 hours of fresh intel prior to any go day would be required.
In fact, this was not even a specific, date-ready raid. It was a general project discussed and then passed on to the Trump administration to be given the usual due consideration following intel protocols and NSC deliberation. No go means Obama thought the risks--especially to our relation to the Yemeni government--could not be assessed properly in a few weeks. (Obama's in-house rule for spec ops was Measure twice and cut once.) So it was up to the Trump NSC team to decide whether raids of this type should occur at all--after due deliberation.
Did Trump gave the ok over dinner and tweet during the raid, as former NSC member Colin Kahl claims?--apparently he was not in the situation room following events in real time. Trump dined, people died?
Again, there was nothing wrong with the mission itself. You keep assuming there was some intel that they ignored. The mission was leaked, and that was discovered by an intercept as the were enroute. They chose to go forward.
Obviously I'm no Obama fan, but you didn't see me flip out when a drone strike killed a 16yr old American citizen. Did he measure twice there? How many times did he measure when we wiped out a wedding party?
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