So now we need permission
Maybe I don't understand this whole war on terrorism thing.
To me, it would seem that when you have "high certainty" about the location of many top al-Qaeda leaders -- you know, terrorists responsible for almost 3,000 murders on American soil on 9/11 -- and you have the U.S. military ready for a "snatch and grab" mission, you'd want to have the military get them and get out.
But again, perhaps I don't understand. Because according to The New York Times, when then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced that very situation in 2005, he called off a planned raid. Why? Because he didn't have permission from the president of Pakistan to send in a few hundred troops to grab some top leaders of a group that killed almost 3,000 people on American soil.
Well, we certainly wouldn't want to seem impolite.
To me, it would seem that when you have "high certainty" about the location of many top al-Qaeda leaders -- you know, terrorists responsible for almost 3,000 murders on American soil on 9/11 -- and you have the U.S. military ready for a "snatch and grab" mission, you'd want to have the military get them and get out.
But again, perhaps I don't understand. Because according to The New York Times, when then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced that very situation in 2005, he called off a planned raid. Why? Because he didn't have permission from the president of Pakistan to send in a few hundred troops to grab some top leaders of a group that killed almost 3,000 people on American soil.
Well, we certainly wouldn't want to seem impolite.
posted by Alabamian at 1:05 AM
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