A friend of mine who was in Saudi Arabia during GW1 had a few thoughts I tend to agree with.
“Obama is probably the best friend our troops have had in the last 8 years.” “Bush/Cheney were bragging about how sophisticated our weapons were while sending out our troopss with inadequate body and vehicle armor.” “Just look how fast Pakistan started grabbing Taliba/AlQaida after O threated to withdraw our activity there.”
As to the 5 month delay, the troops are there and in action. They did not need to go there earlier because there is not much action in the Winter. And in fact they have probably made this assault a month or two early just to catch these guys off balance with regard to winter travel back to sanctuary.
Thanks for playing troll.