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Originally Posted by Surgicalcric
Credit... Credit for what, sitting behind a desk making a decision which by all rights should be made at the tactical level to begin with... Give me a break!
It was the men involved in the execution of the operation (to include the support personnel) who crushed the enemy, not the president.
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QP Surgicalcric--
With respect, there's a difference between giving credit and giving praise. (If the announcement had come during Bush the Younger's administration or during a McCain presidency, what would be our view of the president's role?)
As QPs Pete and Richard have suggested, the president could have done nothing. (Or, equally problematic in my book, he could have sent the Air Force.)
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Originally Posted by Hand
With Respect,
I very strongly disagree that his long term record of hesitancy and inability to commit to a decision or plan or strategy or policy has been counteracted by what for a President is an easy win. He has no skin in the game on this one. If it works out well, he grabs some popularity rating points, if it doesn't, well, he was just following the path that previous Presidents had laid.
While I celebrate with the rest of the country today, and am excited that our military in general and the special operations community in particular gets to chalk up a huge win, I can give Obama no more respect than I could last night before this news came out.
We still have a horrible unemployment rate, we just raised the debt ceiling, we almost had to shut down the government over budget issues, we still have Obamacare to deal with, we have car cars and drug czars and gun czars and air czars. His horrible track record has not gone away.
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Hand--
I like your analysis. However, please do note that I was answering a specific question.
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Originally Posted by Pete
The question now becomes how this event is used politically in the next 18 months.
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