Hmmm. Here's a thought: What if, from Obama's POV, the raid was a three-fer?
One, he gets credits he can use to muzzle GOP national-security campaign issues and get re-elected in 2012.
Two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is a big dog in the Muslim Brotherhood, gets the leadership of al-Q'aeda at the same time the MB gets the leadership of Egypt served up to them on a plate by Obama.
Three, bereft of cred and fresh out of friends, the Paki military gets overthrown by the Taliban and al-Q'aeda, who thus get The Bomb and the services of Dr. A.Q. Khan, the Paki nuke-maker.
Later on, Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood cooperate in a "high crime and misdemeanor" that will make history forget about Benedict Arnold. Then Obama recites the Shehada in public for real and announces he's always been a secret Musselman fanatic and shaheed, and promptly gets "martyred" for the Umma in a huge propaganda coup/scandal.
How about that one?
A “right wing teabagger” pulls the trigger, and Congress grants special powers to Joe Biden, including suspension of habeas corpus, until the “domestic terrorists” are all safely behind bars.