>> They do not have SEAL teams...nor even snipers...onboard.
One word: “Helicopter”.
They could have flown a SEAL team in within hours. Don’t need to wait for the Boxer.
You see no problem with having to use a 60,000 ton LPH and 3,500 men to stop a 1/2 ton lifeboat?
If that lifeboat reaches the shore with the Captain still aboard, Obama needs to be impeached.
This has gone on long enough. Pray for the Captain that he will remain strong and focussed.
Unlike his CIC.
I am more worried about the longer term. The only way to deal with pirates is to attack their land bases and wipe out their resources. Sink their boats. Wreck their docks. Demolish their houses. Hang the perps after a drumhead court martial. Kill their relatives, their goats, people they have lent money to, relatives of the people they lent money to, everyone who is even tangentially involved in this.
You don’t think a SEAL team can be inserted by helicopter? Even a submarine, which is what I would probably opt for, at night.
The USS Boxer is already there.
Barry O’s just like every other left-winger in America. They are willing to use the US military so long as it doesn’t advance America’s interest or protect her citizens or her security.
Oh, gosh, I hope liberals don’t get the wrong idea that the USS Boxer is named after Barbara.
I heard there was an 18 man security detail put on the Maersk Alabama for her to continue to her destination - also heard these were Navy SEALS - is that incorrect?
My thoughts zaclly...SEALs so good at their job.... if allowed this will be over soon.......irks me those that don’t have a clue will reap the benies.....Me even thinking life boat being monitored from below the water line as we speak...
Navy Seals can be located any place they want. They could have been placed on the destroyer prior to its arrival on site. Special Ops can accomplish much more than the average person is aware of.
When there is a crisis, we learn what our leader is made of...ZERO is a dingle-berry.
I’d love to see a helicopter grab the lifeboat, pick it up, and deposit it on the deck of the destroyer surrounded by a company of armed Marines.
Probably not feasible, but I’d still like to see it.
And I am pretty sure that the lifeboat WILL reach shore. 0 has seen fit to let the media cover this up(NYT had one small article hidden way in the back) because he will not order anything that might upset his muslim brothers in arms. 0 is not even fit to manage a pig farm let alone be POTUS and Commander in Chief.
The French attacked a 4-on-5 situation (4 gunmen, 5 hostages) and one hostage was killed. This is a 4-on-1 situation, 2 orders of magnitude greater odds of his death resulting from an assault. I know we are not the French, but I don't see any way Obama will permit any kind of assault at this stage. Particularly with the other foreign human shields complicating his new naive peacenik outreach to the world if they were to be killed in retaliation. Obama's goal is to get the Captain out without anyone being captured or killed, and look to a Somalian solution later on. That won't work, either. But this is how the Left thinks.
The SEALs and their equipment could be flown to friendly bases in Yemen.