What Congressman Alan West said on Greta Van Susterns Show in a Discussion of Obama and his Foreign Policy was great.
He asked Greta if she Knew what operation Vengeance was,she replied No she did not,He proceeded to explain that during WWll American Intelligence learned of Admiral Yamamotos travel to a Japanese base ,they sent an Army Air Corp. Fighter to intercept the plane,they did so and shot the Guy out of the sky,West said that was a Tactical success,not a Foreign Policy success,it did not win WWll,Killing Bin Laden was a Tactical Victory. Killing Bin Laden is Not a Foreign Policy and the Terrorists are now attcking our Embassies all over the Middle East. Obama has no Foreign Policy
I watched about 5 minutes of that 60 minutes hit job. First off, Romney gets the anal probe regarding exact tax policy questions, with follow ups. Then his excellency gets interviewed by Square Head who asks the first question, something like how do you feel about a republican congress that has refused over the past two years to approve any legislation you have offered?
That was all I could take and I went back to watching the NFL.
“...they sent an Army Air Corp. Fighter to intercept the plane...”
Due to the fact the we broke the Japanese Naval Code, we were reading their mail and American Intelligence services knew exactly where Yamamoto would be.
They actually sent SIXTEEN P-38 Lightning fighters to intercept and shoot Yamamoto’s Mitsubishi G4M2 Betty bomber, the decoy bomber, and his fighter escort down. He crashed on Bougainville (Solomon Islands chain, same group as Guadalcanal) and was found dead in the wreckage.
Yamamoto was the man who planned Pearl Harbor. He was made to pay for that with his life. I
This is how you deal with an enemy. Find him, kill him, and make it known that anyone that attacks us will be dealt with similarly.
The SEAL team that took down Bin Laden deserves all the praise and congratulations that we can give them.
FuBO deserves nothing. He did nothing.
I’ll go Lt Col. West one further; the killing of Yamamoto and Bin Laden was not only a tactical success; it was revenge, pure and simple.
On a side note: Yamamoto spoke fluent English, had studied at Harvard University, and served two postings as the Japanese Naval Attache in Washington DC. He was pretty adamant that it was stupid and suicidal to go to war with the USA, but...did it anyway.