U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.
Some hacks in the Pentagon throwing Trump under the bus. Isn't it the Pentagon's job to determine if it has sufficient intelligence and the right operational plan?
Yep, he and the SecDef are relying on “the Pentagon” for this plan, and for something like this- to send people in to seize assets instead of just droning the place like obama has been doing - the plan was on the shelf a long time before Trump became President
Maybe “the Pentagon” should have known the women there were al Qaeda combatants willing to use their children as shields
I can only presume the timing was driven by concern over the closing of a window of opportunity to seize whatever they were after
I read obama had already authorized this plan and trump carried it out. True?????
This was a large and extensive gun fight that went on for over two hours. The SEALs never backed down. Pretty impressive for a lightly armed SpecOps team.
1. Almost all Al Qaeda terrorists are “civilians”, since they do not wear uniforms and are not members of a government’s military.
2. Given that Obama’s favorite terrorists are cowards who still hide behind real civilians, some innocent civilian deaths are inevitable. However, that is far fewer losses than would occur if we allowed those rapists and mass murderers to continue killing innocent people.
It is still Obama’s Military until Trump can get rid of the vermin that rose to the top under the Obama Admin. I cannot believe that anyone who cares about our country or our Military would put out that statement. Trump needs to clean house IMMEDIATELY. And the Media has quickly moved from ‘Bush’s fault’ to ‘Trump’s fault’, completely bypassing the 8 feckless years of Obama.
Some hacks in the Pentagon throwing Trump under the bus. Isn’t it the Pentagon’s job to determine if it has sufficient intelligence and the right operational plan?
I smell an Obamunist here. The kenyan was famous for waiting forever to conduct an op and often times the perps got away.
From the article: “The military officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said “a brutal firefight” killed Owens and at least 15 Yemeni women and children. One of the dead was the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant killed by a 2011 U.S. drone strike.”
The “on condition of anonymity” attention whores and/or lefties need to be purged from the military and/or tried under the UCMJ. However, there are other remedies, such as battle field accidents and such, that provides for a more permanent cure.
Word was that it looked like the enemy had been tipped off. So this is probably in part an attempt by the Deep State enemy within to fight back from that having reached the press—since they probably were involved in the tipping.
On a scale of 1 - 10, this rates at about a 0.001 in interest.
No one cares....they’re all enemy combatants one way or the other.
Don’t worry about it: their little piss ant god, allah, will sort em out.
Yep, I saw U.S.-based pro-Ukrainian think tank (PR) putting out propaganda about how the U.S. military was unprepared and botched this operation and killed innocent women and children. Our Deep State is now fully in bed with globalists and ready to vilify the U.S. military for its neocon globalist agenda. Sickening.
The real investigation should be into why the Yemeni terrorists were so prepared for the ‘surprise’ attack by US special forces.
I liked Chris Plante’s comment on WMAL radio this morning:
“The media ignored 8 years of Obama dropping a bomb on terrorists every X # of minutes and never asked if there were any civilian casualties. Now they are all offended about Trump applying the same rules.”
Civilians stupid enough or unlucky enough to live among terrorists are going to be killed from time to time. Want to stay alive? Move away from them.