"Allahu Ackbar! I have been informed that Jack Bauer and Vic Mackey have been sent to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, and therefore I am surrendering while I still have my knees and manliness."
What is the FReeper fascination with that show and this character? It is the one of the worst show on T.V. [almost all of them suck] I have suffered through bits and parts of it but then I actually feel my brain getting smaller as I watch...so I am compelled by the natural instinct of self preservation to get up and walk away.
What sort of dumbed down threshold are you people pushing past?
YES!!!!
Send in Jack Bauer now!!!
"We can't act quickly enough," the officer said. "And that is a geographic or a structural problem, but it's also a bureaucratic problem because you got too many layers."
He added that top al Qaeda leaders and other so-called high-value targets — such as al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar — had been spotted since Sept. 11.
"Zawahiri and Mullah Omar, in separate instances, were observed going into a certain location," the officer said. "This is what we call actionable intelligence. And there were conventional Special Forces teams in the area."
But killing or capturing bin Laden and his top lieutenants is a job exclusively designated to a special task force, variously known as Task Force 121 or Task Force 626. No one else can do the deed. And the go order, this officer said, can be a long time coming.
"When you get an actionable intelligence, then that intelligence has to be confirmed," he said. "Once confirmed, then there is a planning cycle that's entered into, three courses of action. Courses of action have to be approved at higher headquarters. Coordination with other elements has to be made. And then, of course, it has to be approved at the highest levels of our government. Well, in this world, people don't stand still that long, particularly people who … know they're being hunted."
Forget about the small tinge of conventional SOF Vs black SOF that is suggested here (but know also that there is some truth to that issue to a lesser degree).
The bigger picture though is the OODA loop and why these SOBs at times have been able to operate inside ours -
I love Jack Bauer. Yes, I do. :)
Chuck Norris is going, too, and will administer a roundhouse kick to the face.
maybe he has a salmon-helmet for Peter too.
Mohammed was a child molester!