Thanks for a great news post.
This is great news.
God Bless our wonderful military.
God Bless Them.
Way to GO!
The Army Times piece gives us a sense of the brilliance in constant supply at the State Department, as contrasted with the way people talk from the Department of Breaking Things and Hurting Bad Guys (my name for the Defense Department, which used to be more accurately called the War Department):
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment. But military sources said Wood’s view was that any publicity of Americans taken hostage in Afghanistan, even those who are rescued, encourages “the bad guys” to take more hostages and scares off Americans and other westerners from visiting or working in Afghanistan.
The special operators see the Oct. 15 rescue differently. To them, the fact that U.S. forces were able to rescue an American hostage from a location where the kidnappers felt secure “sends a very clear message to any extremist groups that [kidnapping Americans] will be handled with vigilance and unrelenting persecution,” said the special operations officer.
I wish more people who work the USG could be induced to think like the special ops guys. Jesse Helms was right — State should just be abolished. Maybe after the next four years . . .
Are our guys AWESOME or what?
God Bless Them!!
God bless our brave troops. Most excellent news.
Meanwhile;
Afghanistan: American journalist kidnapped by Taliban (NY Times reporter)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130284/posts
God bless these guys. Maybe now they will be forgiven by Obamanation for air raiding villages and killing civilians.
killing his captors and returning him to safety
yes...another beautifull...
flawless execution.....it sucks to be them.
Ping.
BTTT
Awesome!
Now why won’t hollywood make a movie showing the tenacity and bravery of our troops instead of the steaming piles of bs that they’ve been making in an effort to offend them?
Awesome work.
VERY “worth it” to follow the links to the ArmyTimes breakdown of the rescue.
Our guys are simply awesome!
Fantastic news SEAL, Spec ops *PING*
Great news! Thanks for posting it.