Posted on 08/21/2014 8:01:36 PM PDT by LittleSpotBlog
There are at least three American hostages still being held by the Islamic terrorists who executed journalist James Foley, sources say, along with a small number of others -- perhaps a dozen. But a rescue mission would be very difficult after Wednesday's revelation that the U.S. military made a failed rescue attempt earlier this summer, CBS News Homeland Security correspondent Bob Orr reports.
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No, and that was the point.
There was no rescue mission.
I’m not so sure a rescue mission wasn’t attempted in the last couple of days leading up to the execution of Foley.
No questin in my mind that Obama only did this to bolster is approval numbers. The country be damned.
Not to worry. The Islamic State is the JV. So says our punk President.
And our leadership is the freshman team.
Not as long as Obozo has Al queda’s phone numbers on speed dial. He calls them whenever US troops start to close in.
A clever person would put that rescue attempt story out there in the hopes it would cause a reaction by the enemy and give us some useful intel. Nobody in the admin has that much sense.
The enemy knew about the rescue mission at the time it happened obviously. This was a raid on one of their facilities and several of theirs were killed in the fight. Doubtless there were survivors that reported the raid.
No doubt the ones that hauled ass when confronted by real soldiers.
if we didn’t have enemies this ruthless we would get really soft.
I don’t think there was either.
Politically we are already soft. The shooters will always be fine.
He sure didn’t have any problem getting a deserter out
I would not be one to mourn the death of this pos, wh poseur. In fact, I’d go right back to cooking something wonderful in my nightgown(yawn)
Oh what having 10,000 or so Army personnel in Iraq now would do for us. But Obama would have none of it. In one of McCain’s moments of clarity he said I don’t care if we have troops in there for 50 more years.
Hey, we’ve had troops in South Korea for 64 years now, and we’ve had troops in Germany for 70 years. Exactly why do we need Army troops in Germany in this day and age? The Russians aren’t coming through the Fulda Gap anymore. We need to pull all ground troops out of Germany. There needs to be 10,000 or so troops in Iraq. I hope after this is subdued some future President will see the sense in this and negotiate a credible SOFA agreement with the government of Iraq.
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