i believe i made a post earlier saying my hats off to Obama for using these guys instead of a bunch of National Guardsmen .......i have never said anywhere that Obama is a softie on Terrorist.....i did not care for Reagan.....but i applauded some of his out of Country dealings.....as i do with this guy.....both Reagan and Obama suck domestically as far as i am concerned......but outside the Country.....different story......and i give the SEALS all my respect even if they failed....and if they did fail as long as Obama did not send them into harms way without good solid intel,like i hear happened when Clinton sent those guys into Somalia,then i feel at least the guy is trying to **** Terrorist everywhere over.....and i am all for that.....Bush had these guys worried after the initial Afghan thing,and he could have pursued and done some great damage to these people,but we all know what that asshole did.....Obama is no doubt hated by these guys more than Bush was,i am sure of that,because he is getting results by using the right people for this type of stuff.....
I pretty much agree with this post, but I would ask: how would Clinton know what the quality of the intel was? He has a CIA director who tells him what the intel is.
I think that all presidents defer to their CIA head in these matters. If they tell him it's good, why would he disagree, and what would he be able to base it on?
I just don't like this game of saying that if the mission succeeds, praise the troops; if the mission fails, blame the POTUS - whoever it is.
I have absolutely no qualms about blaming the military for the fuckup when they tried to rescue the Iranian hostages. But everyone blamed Carter instead.