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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 [...]
During his incredibly successful [/snark] trip to Europe last week, President Obama rejected an invitation from French president Nicolas Sarkozy to visit Normandy, France — the site of the 1944 D-Day beach landing. The reason given by the Obama administration? They didn’t want to offend the Germans by having the U.S. president visit the site [...]
President Obama’s first trip to Europe had to be a bit of an eye-opener for him and those in his administration who really believed their own campaign rhetoric.
From flubbing his first press conference with the British Prime Minister (at least Gordon Brown didn’t blow off the American president, claiming to be “too tired” to uphold [...]