Simple words, straight to the point. And yet so many here cannot say them.
Ordering the hit on Bin Laden was not an easy thing, we had to violate Pakistani soveriengty to get him and they are still pissed at us for it, quite a few people would not have given the order because of that.
Yeah, and considering that they were only 40 to 60 percent sure that the intel was correct, if he hadn't been there, we would not only have pissed off the Pakistanis like we did, but the GOP would be screaming at the top of their shrill little lungs that Obama made a mistake and he was a failure.
Obama could have just said that there wasn't a high enough probability to go and the mission would have been scrubbed.
I don't know about you people, but 40 - 60 percent odds are pretty poor when you're gambling with high stakes like this.
Oh......................and you want to know WHY we had to violate their space? Because if we had shared information with them like Jr. did, OBL would have simply been warned and moved to another safe house.
Obama made the right call, and it was pretty damn gutsy. Clinton even said that he wasn't sure if he would have made the call like Obama, but he hoped that he would have.