[Steven Tyler]

.....because, at the time, that was the best PR for the 0bama administration????

The max&best PR is ALWAYS 0bama’s calculus

[Heart of Georgia]

The best PR was demonstrating how inept they are, speaking publically about an ongoing military mission? Maybe that’s the simple reason why it’s not discussed now, because after the fact, it shows nothing but ineptness.

The fact remains that the mission of tracking and destroying MANPADS was treated lightly in that it was discussed openly like that. Now, it’s never talked about. But it seems plausible to me that it may have ignited a showdown over who got to keep those weapons.