7. BHO
immediately claims credit for his "daring and decisive" behaviour.
As usual with him, it's BS.
So per our last
email thread, I'm downgrading Oohbaby's performance to D-.
Only reason it's not an F is that the hostage survived. Read
the following accurate account.
Philips’ first
leap into the warm, dark water of the Indian Ocean,
Bainbridge in range and a rescue by his country’s Navy
possible, Philips threw himself off of his lifeboat prison,
enabling Navy shooters onboard the destroyer a clear shot at
his captors — and none was taken.
The guidance
from National Command Authority — the president of the
United States , Barack Obama — had been clear: a peaceful
solution was the only acceptable outcome to this standoff
unless the hostage’s life was in clear, extreme danger.
The next day, a
small Navy boat approaching the floating raft was fired on
by the Somali pirates — and again no fire was returned and
no pirates killed. This was again due to the cautious stance
assumed by Navy personnel thanks to the combination of a
lack of clear guidance from Washington and a mandate from
the commander in chief’s staff not to act until Obama, a man
with no background of dealing with such issues and no track
record of decisiveness, decided that any outcome other than
a “peaceful solution” would be acceptable.
After taking
fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the on
scene commander decided he’d had enough.
Keeping his
authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger
to the hostage’s life and having heard nothing from
Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue
operation had been denied the day before, the Navy officer —
unnamed in all media reports to date — decided the AK47 one
captor had leveled at Philips’ back was a threat to the
hostage’s life and ordered the NSWC team to take their
shots.
Three rounds
downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and
Philips was safe.
There is
upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over
the last week that culminated in yesterday’s dramatic rescue
of an American hostage.
Almost
immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama
administration and its supporters claimed victory against
pirates in the Indian Ocean and declared that the dramatic
end to the standoff put paid to questions of the
inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness.
Despite the
Obama administration’s (and its sycophants’) attempt to
spin yesterday’s success as a result of bold, decisive
leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is
nothing of the sort.
