I was attacked for stating that
The life was in danger and especially when the man jumped overboard but because obama wanted so much to reach out to muslims and make this a criminal case while trying to prove talking is better than bombing.
you can bet your houses that if talks had prevailed then phony would have been on TV saying see told you so , we do not need to use force like we have in the past
Now he cannot use that line
This was all about trying to show the world that he has brought in a new era of not hurting people and we are kum by yar or how ever you spell it /
Thank full there are some mostly on here who can see through this white house and media twist and propaganda.
phony should have given the order right away, shoot to kill when you have the chance
Now he needs to go after the pirates there and get their ships
obozo the clown looks at foreign policy as a pesky little thing getting in the way of his radical domestic agenda
He waited 2.5 days to give the order to shoot when he could have ordered a Navy Seal team or a special ops team in the first few hours to be flown to the scene within few hours and kill the pirates right there, the 4 ragtag pirates who were already defeated by an unarmed civilian crew. I never doubted for a second that our brave Navy Seals could not resolve the problem successfully once they are ordered to do so. The success was a given because of the incredible professionalism of our military.
The very dangerous thing that came out form this is how the more dangerous enemies such as Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iran, North Korea, etc... view us. These enemies have witnessed how a very weak President forced the mightiest Navy in history to wait 5 days before taking over 3 ragtag pirates on a tiny boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean. An event like this has greatly emboldened them and because of this they are going to cause us a lot of harm.
Why did he have to approve the order twice? Did he take it back after the first time?