Hagel: "Syria Raid Flawless"

Christian Science Monitor ^ | Anna Mulrine

[TangledUpInBlue]

Even so, defense officials sought to put a positive spin on the mission. “This operation, by the way, was a flawless operation,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a briefing with reporters Thursday afternoon. “But the hostages were not there.”

[TangledUpInBlue]

Hmm, seems to me it had at least ONE flaw......

[Diogenesis]

Flawless? HOw many in ISIS and al Qaeda WORK FOR,
and WORKED for, the DOD? How many?

Answer: More than are protecting Hasan.

[ThomasMore]

...flawless and Hagel is clueless!!!!!!!!

[hal ogen]

hagel...put down the “sauce”. The “flawless” raid failed. Seems contradictory.

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[EagleUSA]

Flawless in the minds bent by liberalism. Someone should tell Hagel that the mission FAILED.

[Steely Tom]

"Syria Raid Flawless"

Also result-less.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"illustrate a glaring shortcoming in US military capabilities: that good US military intelligence on these militant groups is in short supply."

Hmmmmm. And why does this flaw exist? Could it have anything to do with completely pulling all military forces out of Iraq? Nah, two disparate events that have no correlation...

[kabar]

The operation was a success but the patient died.

[Wyatt's Torch]

I’m not going to knock the execution of the raid by our SpecOps forces. Well done. Too bad the intel was poor or the politicians delayed the raid until the targets were no longer there.

[TomGuy]

Sort of a rendition of:

The operation was a success, but the patient died.

[edpc]

ISIS took off their Laker’s jerseys. No wonder we couldn’t find them.

[PLMerite]

Shades of Operation Ivory Coast/Son Tay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivory_Coast

[Stevenc131]

Another triumph for the administration. Just add it to the list that includes defeating Al Qaeda and establishing a peaceful and democratic gov’t in Libya.

[dfwgator]

It was flawless in that it never happened.

[Vinnie]

The word is Zer0 was indecisive, waited too long to give the ‘go ahead’.
Hostages moved.
What else is new. Leading from behind, again.

He’s weeks (at least) late doing anything about ISIS. Should have nipped them way up in Northern Iraq. Not let them move almost into Baghdad.

[cornelis]

Flawless failures.

[RckyRaCoCo]

“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

[Kandy Atz]

You would think we would have better intelligence on an organization that just a year ago Obama was arming and supporting.

[Oldexpat]

Our troops deserve better leadership. Hagel is an embarrASSment. He can barely string a sentence together. He along with Dempsey..what a team.