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Based on Vice Admiral Gortney’s briefing, here’s what happened:
1. The Navy was given a specific set of circumstances in which they could take the necessary action.
2. Being tired of being the laughing stock of the world, the on scene commander determined those criteria had been met.
I know how the game is played, and what happened, [...]
Congratulations, thanks, and best wishes go out to finally-freed Maersk-Alabama Captain Richard Philips and the Navy Special Warfare (NSWC) team that rescued him just after noon EDT today. The quick thinking of the captive American and the matchless skill of America’s special operations forces combined to create a successful rescue operation that left three of [...]
The headlines I’m watching on CNN right now are, quite frankly, laughable. “Can Somali Pirates Be Stopped?” they say, with no regard for the pathetic irony and impotence inherent in even asking such a question.
Yes. Yes they can - with one Troop of operators, and Spooky, Little Bird, and DAP support, the entire network of [...]
UPDATE: The ‘money quote’ from SCOTUSBLOG:
The brief was another indication that, at least so far, the new Administration is not moving to make a wide-ranging break with detention policies of the former Bush Administration.
The utopian Left, which saw in the Rorshach that was candidate Barack Obama just what they wanted to see (rather than anything [...]
He posits that she understands four key myths about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are, in fact, myths:
All things considered, then, one can believe the secretary of state doesn’t accept four myths that some—though not all–of her colleagues in Washington and Europe embrace. She seems to know that:
The Israel-Palestinian conflict is not the fulcrum of the Middle [...]