[Coldwater Creek]

God bless our black ops people.

We do not want to nor need to know every thing that is being done to keep us safe in this country.

[hsalaw]

Leave it to Newsweak to "out" the good guys and hide the bad guys. Fools.

[SevenMinusOne]

Rumsfeld is especially enamored of McChrystal's "direct action" forces or so-called SMUs—Special Mission Units—whose job is to kill or capture bad guys,

Which is just another clear reason why SecDef Rumsfeld is the perfect man for the job in today's world.

[reagan_fanatic]

They are heroes, pure and simple. Thank God they're on OUR side!

[theFIRMbss]

>Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, West Point '76, is not someone the Army likes to talk about

Of course, he does have his own action figure and Marvel comic line . . .

[tx_eggman]

Experts partisan hacks like former (Clinton) Deputy Defense secretary John Hamre are also concerned that Special Ops now has generic authority to deploy where it wants without case-by-case orders. Without proper civilian oversight, a Zarqawi-style success can easily become a "Black Hawk Down."

It was civilian oversight by The Stain® and his cronies that gave us "Black Hawk Down" in the first place

[rahbert]

"the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops" guys"

Wonder if they have snake flavor MRE's for these guys?

[jazusamo]

Experts like former Deputy Defense secretary John Hamre are also concerned that Special Ops now has generic authority to deploy where it wants without case-by-case orders.

Why is it not surprising that a Deputy Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration would be critical of Special Ops? If Special Ops would have been supported by Clinton, we might not be in the situation we're in now.

[MNJohnnie]

Here is the dichotomy. The Black Ops people still got to fight for their budgets. You got to have good PR to get political muscles to pull in the Budget Wars for you but Spec Ops hates to talk about what they do since keeping Methods and Means secret is life and death for them.

Read "Masters of Chaos". Spec Ops is finally starting to play the game. I think that is a good thing.

[theDentist]

I hear he goes by another name: Jack Bauer.

[Daus]

Experts like former Deputy Defense secretary John Hamre are also concerned that Special Ops now has generic authority to deploy where it wants without case-by-case orders. Without proper civilian oversight, a Zarqawi-style success can easily become a "Black Hawk Down."

Sure, if only their had more 'civilian control' in Somalia, the whole thing could have been avoided... /s

[Diogenesis]

[Junior]

A "black ops" ping...

[TexasRepublic]

There's a guy named Hugo that should be very scared.

[popdonnelly]

Another example of our irresponsible news media. Anything for a story.

[TADSLOS]

Glad Stan McChrystal will be running things in that part of the AOR. Al qaeda and the taliwhackers are about to get a huge, harsh dose of Spec Ops whoop ass. I do find it humorously ironic though that Obambi has thrown his lot with a man who was vilified as a torturer by the libs in congress and the media while serving in Iraq under the Bush administration. I guess Stan must have attended Obambi’s re-education camp or something before being selected for his rush assignment. /s/