Posted on 10/28/2012 8:11:58 AM PDT by StandAndDeliver1
Didn’t you get the Zot awhile back?
That’s a powerful image and message. I’d love to re-post it, but it’s got a typo in it. The word ‘terrorist’ should be plural. Is it yours, and can you fix it?
Yup.
Decisions made in wartime, in business, or even in a football game are almost always made with imperfect information. One rarely knows with certainty when and where and with what force an enemy will attack. One can estimate and extrapolate to determine if selling a product at a given price will increase or decrease revenues, but there are no guarantees. A defensive coordinator might know that his opponent throws a pass 85% of the time on third and eight, but that still leaves a 15% probabability of a running play.
The hallmark of a successful leader is the ability to make optimum decisions based on (to copy an Obama phrase) “less than optimal” information. “The perfect is the enemy of the good” is a well-worn phrase, but it still rings true. Absent having perfect information, decision makers need to choose the best available option based on whatever information they do have.
Panetta’s excuse that they didn’t have enough information doesn’t pass the smell test. Most major battlefield decisions are undoubtedly made with far less perfect intelligence. There were drones overhead, a live audio feed, and a videotape now deemed Top Secret, no doubt because of how damning its contents are to Obama and his pals. This was hardly the “fog of war” that has thwarted military leaders in the past. The information that was available was so good, in fact, that it speaks to a political reason for the inaction, rather than a military one. And most intelligent Americans (i.e., conservatives) understand this.
Ping to find this later.
Panetta decries “Monday morning quarter-backing”. We had NO Tuesday (9/11) afternoon quarter-backing.
Why didn't Clinton respond to Blackhawk Down?
Answer one you answer both.
Clinton's non response made UBL the big dog on the block in the terrorist world for defeating the Great Satan and driving them out of Somalia.
Zippo’s non response has just made the clown responsible for this attack the big dog on the block in the terrorist world.
With his meeting a few hours earlier with Turkish diplomats probably tied to unauthorized MANPAD transfers to Syria via a Turkish port, Obama was the doofus just hoping the facilitator that had got them placed on a Lybian boat would extricate himself.
Ask: why was he at the undefended Consulate.
Why all of this hand-wringing over concern of what the Libyans would think? Don’t we use Predator drones all over the world to ‘assassinate’ suspected terrorists who pose no immediate threat to Americans, even using said force in other Islamic countries? Why the hesitation to use such force during this incident? And no ‘real time info’ during a ‘war crisis situation’ is a pathetic excuse for a supposed world power with a first-class military. So we’re paralyzed without ‘pictures’?? During a self-defense situation??
That’s it! His daughters, his “peeps” are not expendable, but anyone and everyone else is, particularly Americans who mess up his political campaign.
Make it a double-feature and pull out Clear and Present Danger.
Great point.
And the libs crucify Bush for taking 7 minutes to finish a reading session with kids on 9/11.
The Democrats are afraid of this because it is their “Iran Contra”. They held televised hearings and talked about impeaching Reagan. And here we are, a Democrat administration caught red handed handing out weapons to real terrorists and messing around in other country’s affairs. Ollie North has to be laughing himself silly over this.
If BO had made the call to go and run a rescue, that might have won him the election. Bad decision for him and the victims. To another post, those guys knew this was an admin choice and not the American people.
This still doesn’t explain why those at the annex were held back
from rescuing Stevens and the others at the consulate.
I share in your pessimism.
I get sick and tired of hearing this crap that obama was worried that if he went after Osama and it failed it would be compared to Carter’s failed mission in the dessert. With Carter, up until that time no one had been killed in Iran. Carter’s hostage rescue attempt was the first casualties. We’ve had thousands of war casualties since 2001. If the mission had failed and we had lost troops nobody would have blamed obama. Plus, obama knew the media would cover for him.
BULLSHIT!! Decisions are evaluated on their results, not process.
Obama, the Coward-In-Chief, made a non-decision knowing full well that sovereign U.S. territory was being attacked and Americans killed. Then he hid under his bed-covers.
Since then, Obama the Coward has sent out his mommy-surrogates to explain why it just "wasn't his fault" and that he is really a good boy who we should keep in the White House.
America really needs to flush the national toilet bowl and be rid of this piece of filth!
Carnak The Magnificent Says:
- Someone in the Obama administration will be taking a trip UNDER the Obama bus in the next few days.
- Some innocent teenage goatherder in Libya will be blown into atoms by a $100,000 drone missle in the next few days.
The administration will label him as the key figure in the Libya embassy attack.
Obama will spike that football until the polls close on election night.
Yeah but Obamadinejad isn’t that smart and neither are his lefty advisers. They thought these guys were expendable and that they could cover it up.
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