Partisan bullshit, from either side, is petty and childish. It all boils down to planning, coordination and execution. That's done down in the trenches not inside the White House, not inside either congressional chamber, not even inside the Pentagon. It's at the stubby pencil level using the principles of Mission, Equipment, Troops, Terrain and Time Available that gets things like this done. (Jesus, I'm surprised that I can even recall that; can't remember where the hell I put my wallet last night, but I can still remember METT-T!)
I expect politicians to prance around and take credit when things go well. And I expect simple-minded amateurs who have never stepped on an actual battlefield nor ever heard shots fired in anger with real bullets headed in their direction to understand what goes into these things.
So jack off to your hearts' content if your only view of this is political.
Except for one thing....policy
The policy of attacking terrorists wherever they are is Obamas. Whether it is in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Yemen....we go in and get them. Obama stepped up the drone attacks once he became President and it is paying dividends
Our President deserves credit for that
Any President who didn't have such a policy would not deserve to be President. Contrary to popular myth, President Clinton had pretty aggressive anti-terrorist policies...within the context of terrorism at that time...the bad guys upped the ante, and we followed suit.
Still, the political cheerleading reveals a lot of ignorance at this point. Obama did not create anti-terrorism policy. He's following a policy that has existed, arguably, back to JFK's time although JFK was more focused on unconventional warfare. Still, he laid the foundation for today's special ops forces in terms of tactics, techniques and procedures.
Clean up the keyboard when you're done.