Sunday, June 12, 2011

INTERESTING TAKE RE: OSAMA BIN LADEN TAKE DOWN...


OLD POLICY:
We come in the middle of the night, capture you and your entire cell and hold you in a Black Detention Center in eastern Europe.  Do not announce it to anyone for six months - then claim you were killed in a Predator missile attack.  In the intervening six months, we exploit all the intel we gathered, and - for as long as possible - operate a deception cell in your place, receiving commo from other cells and passing on disruptive orders, rolling up other cells in the process.
 
NEW POLICY:
We burst in and kill the only two guys (couriers) who know where the 2d and 3d level al Qaeda operatives are located (explaining that we feared their T-shirt clad bodies hid suicide vests).  We kill the main target, but neglect to scarf up his family, the man being groomed to replace him, his personal staff or his support staff - losing invaluable intel in the process.  We forget the detailed instructions on how to destroy the highly classified chopper we leave behind (one of only two such choppers manufactured before the Obama Administration canceled the program).  We supposedly capture a trove of electronic data, but immediately invalidate that data by announcing to the world we have it.  Al Qaeda and the Taliban immediately go into full damage control mode, changing all aspects of their operations, so that the intel we captured is no longer relevant.  We ignore the multifaceted military and intelligence considerations and run a publicity campaign whose only priority seems to be to boost the President's reelection campaign.  Moronic Vice President outs ST6, whose families are now having to be guarded for the indefinite future.  Most observers fail to notice two things:  1) the raid was delayed to closely follow the President's announcement of his reelection campaign (what would have happened if bin Laden moved while we were waiting for THAT?!?!?); and 2) no one stops to ask why maritime-specialized ST6 ran the operation rather than land-specialized Delta - or consider how that factored into the many screwed up aspects of this raid.  The media merely views it as the successful culmination of a manhunt, rather than a terribly wasted opportunity in a much larger war.  Then the moron who supposedly was "in personal charge of the operation" (the CIA Director, of all people) is transferred to the SecDef job, where he gets to continue exerting his debilitating influence.

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