Connecting The Dots

August 6, 2011 | Filed under War On Terror | Posted by

Patterico has been connecting some dots in the horrific news out of Afghanistan today.

 

  • Back in May, right up until the beginning of the raid, the Obama administration and the Pentagon were in agreement: there would be no release of details of the raid. The reasons were many: to protect methods and sources we used in finding him, to prevent giving the enemy any useful intelligence, and to protect the operators from retaliation.
  • That agreement lasted less than a day: President Obama identified them as SEAL Team Six, and Vice President Biden identified their commander by name. Further, we were immediately treated to a near blow-by-blow of the raid (the details of which kept evolving, as the Obama administration kept trying to find the version of the truth that would make them look best), as well as a full rundown of just how we found him.
  • Three months later, in our single worst day in the entire 10-year war in Afghanistan, a helicopter is shot down, killing 25 members of SEAL Team 6, the air crew, and seven Afghan allies.

 

Of course, this all could be coincidence. The Taliban, after ten years of fighting, actually scored their single greatest victory. Of all the helicopters they’ve seen and targeted, they just happened to pick the one filled with members of the unit that killed Bin Laden, just barely three months after he became fish food.

 

This could be just coincidence. Or it could be a combination of good intelligence, good planning, a healthy dose of luck, and the benefit of the goddamned assholes in the Obama administration who couldn’t keep their fucking mouths shut and put his re-election over basic operational security.
I’ve often said that while the mission planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid were almost textbook perfect (the loss of one helicopter notwithstanding), the followthrough by the Obama administration was just as textbook an example of letting political considerations trump all else.

 

What I would have counseled (based on my extensive study of various and sundry technothrillers and non-fiction books) would have to removed all bodies from the raid, evacuate all survivors out of the compound, then level the entire compound.

 

And then said absolutely nothing for several days.

 

Let the rest of Al Qaeda try to figure out how their leader’s top-secret hideout became a pile of rubble. Let them interrogate the survivors and find out what they saw. Let them pick through the rubble and try to inventory who and what was missing. (The Obama administration also bragged about seizing computers, flash drives, and all kinds of media during the raid.) Let them try to decide who was killed, who was captured, and who was spilling their guts.

 

And all the time, we watch very carefully to see who is talking to who — and about what.Who is the first to say that it was Bin Laden’s compound? Who will he be calling? And who will they be calling?

 

Instead, Obama and his cronies had to make damned certain that the whole world knew 1) Bin Laden was dead, and B) Obama was the one who gave the order. And just to prove it, they had to give out all kinds of verifying details.

 

And in the process, they painted great big targets on some of the best America has.

 

Well, today, over two dozen of those best died, killed at the hands of those most angry over the death of Bin Laden. Purely by coincidence, I’m certain. They just got really, really, really lucky.

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  • Stephen Macklin

    I’d have to go with “the goddamned assholes in the Obama administration who couldn’t keep their fucking mouths shut and put his re-election over basic operational security.”

    The One puts his re-election over everything.

  • Anonymous

    I was actually surprised when the news of Bin Laden’s demise was announced.  I had figured that President Bush had gotten him years before.  Obama may be “the smartest man in the room”  but smarts doesn’t always equate to wisdom.  Despite many of Bush’s problems, he had wisdom.  Had Bin Laden been killed during the Bush years, it is very likely we would have never known.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, because we never heard a peep about Zarqawi. Or the seemingly infinite number of “Al Qaida’s number three leader”s.

      • http://www.harlemghost.blogspot.com/ HarlemGhost

        weeks or months later usually because an ally was going to blab about it anyway …

  • Frank O’Connell

    >>>”the goddamned assholes in the Obama administration who couldn’t
    keep their fucking mouths shut and put his re-election over basic
    operational security.”

    Yeah, that and the “Here comes Seal Team Six” Obama had painted on the side of the helicopter.

    We have to stop the Muslim from Kenya…

    Hobbit Powers UNITE!

  • Sydell Stapler

    This is tragic.  THis is treason.  All parties responsible should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.  From the White House to the Out House, media and inbetween.  Someone squealed and our Seals are dead. And during Ramadan, how coincidental.  Someone should hang for this…

    • Frank O’Connell

       Yes – I’m sure Obama called the AQ hotline “anonymously,” and used his Muslim voice so they’d believe him, and then he told them that Team Six members were on that helicopter.

      Seriously! I read it on Newsmax!

      Let’s string him up – whaddya say fellow Hobbits?

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7YIUZMXOD5JGZZTCYMVA75KFU Shadow

        Frank, you finally came up with a good idea.

      • Anonymous

        Why do democrats always want to lynch black men?

  • Sydell Stapler

    Why are we allowing BHO to play the whole United Sates as a bunch of suckers.  He belly laughs all night long, advancing his agenda, killing the America we know, blow by blow, piece by piece.  When the inmates run the asylum, bad things happen.  Everything he does is planned and the suits on the hill let him get away with this shit.  Unbelievable.

    • Frank O’Connell

      HUSSEIN Obama is intentionally killing this country so he and his muslim terrorist pals can buy up all the christian churches and put up mosques and fried chicken outlets.

      Hey, let’s put up that picture of a black man holding a paddle. I really like that one, it’s so rare to see Obama standing still and revealing his true self. I bet he carries that paddle everywhere.

      He’s got a master plan alright. He’s out to destroy America.

      Hobbit Powers UNITE!

  • http://www.serr8d.blogspot.com/ Serr8d

    Fuck you, Frank O’Bama.

  • Houston Keys

    You summed it up well Jay.  I am aghast at the stupidity, shallowness, greed and ineptitude of this administration.

    They have to be either the dumbest bunch of jerks who ever walked the face of the Earth or they have to be so EVIL that they are intentionally screwing things up for their own gain.

    I hate to say it but I have moved from the belief they are idiots (except for Biden, that man couldn’t piss his name in the snow) and how moved into full fledged tinfoil hat wearing belief we are deling with enemies of the state.

    God help us.  We still have another year and a half for them to destroy America.

  • Houston Keys

    BTW, this lady had a very interesting take on the whole deal.  I think its worth reading if for no other reason than just because too many “Things” just keep happening when our minders “Fix” things for us.

    http://www.barnhardt.biz/

    • Frank O’Connell

      Barnhardt’s Teh Hobbit Powers are strong — she KNOWS the TRUTH about bin Laden’s death!

      On May 5th I had an email conversation with a retired military man with
      spook contacts. All were in total agreement that the Bin Laden episode
      was pure theater. The SEALS were sent into a compound as evidenced by
      the lost chopper on site. But Osama Bin Laden wasn’t in that compound.
      Osama Bin Laden has been dead for years.       Bin Laden had a genetic
      condition that caused renal failure (this genetic condition is common
      among deeply inbred Saudi arab muslims). Bin Laden had been on dialysis
      BEFORE 9/11. Dialysis is difficult enough for people in first world
      countries who can have it done in outstanding facilities. Bin Laden was
      having it done either in caves or in homes post 9/11. People in renal
      failure having dialysis done in fricking caves do NOT live for ten more
      years. Period. There was no dialysis equipment found in the compound
      the SEALS raided on May 2. Of course there wasn’t. Bin Laden wasn’t in
      that compound because Bin Laden has been dead for years.

      Obama and his Muslim pals had this planned out! It’s all a lie!

      NOW let’s GO GET the Muslims out of the White House before they
      bugger the whole nation! We’re almost under Sharia Law! Glenn Beck says
      so!

      Hobbit Powers UNITE!

  • Anonymous

    This is among the stupider things ever written by JT.  As if the Taliban don’t try to shoot down every helicopter they can.

    • Anonymous

      As if the Taliban don’t try to shoot down every helicopter they can.

      And ain’t it funny that they succeeded this time? Against this bird?

      What an astonishing coincidence.

      J.

      • Anonymous

        Coincidence?  Not really, if you followed the news you’d know that Chinooks with SEALs have been shot down before, and Chinooks and other helicopters are always being shot down by the Talibs.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan

        Of course, no cheap shot talking point aganist Obama is too low, even if it’s on the corpses of fallen SEALs.  I don’t seem to remember any secrecy about any successes during the Bush years, for example the unit that captured Saddam was widely publicized. 

        • Frank O’Connell

          But, but, but…

          Oh, you’re right

          I’ll just pretend I didn’t see that comment.

          Look! Over there! A Muslim!

           

        • Anonymous

          Details now being released claim this mission was to respond to Rangers under duress.  Nice little OPSEC breach there as well.  Certainly won’t help to confirm procedure for the TB if this was indeed a set up?

          • Anonymous

            Whatcha got to say about that now that the Afghan’s say it was a trap?  Huh, Commander Cheeky and Frankly An Asshole?

  • http://www.serr8d.blogspot.com/ Serr8d

    10% of SEAL Team 6 was killed in Afghanistan; there’s good reason to
    connect the dots. Doh Biden on April 24 blurted out that ST6 was
    involved in the killing of Osama Bin Laden; people noted at the time the
    failure of the White House to keep Operational Security might be
    problematic; but BHO trumpeted his ‘success’ for political gain.

    Did that trumpeting cost the lives of members of ST6 on Friday? If
    that’s the case, then George Bush’s famous “Mission Accomplished!” gaffe
    in a flight uniform aboard the deck of an aircraft carrier will pale in
    comparison to the coming shit-storm BHO and Doh Biden will face.

    Oh, and again, Fuck You! Frank O’Bama O’Connell, you mendoucheous twatwaffle troll-spittle.

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  • Anonymous

    I doubt that any  person could hold a lower opinion of President Obama’s competence and/or character than do I.  However, how are these dots any more connected than the ones in the minds of the truther nutjobs about 9/11.

    I normally agree with you around 90% of the time, but this one is pretty weak and I am afraid that after the emotions cool, you may regret hitting publish.

    • Anonymous

      Well, this is a no win problem.  If they did plan to draw them in (which is a time honored TB tactic that is constantly being refined) we’ve now let them know just how successful they were. And if they weren’t planning this, then we gave them a whole lot of propaganda fodder.  The Bin Laden lapse of OPSEC is nothing compared to letting this one out.

      • Anonymous

        Unfortunately we live in an open democracy, when large numbers of troops get killed, the people get to know about it.

        • Anonymous

          Its by choice and stupidity that it is done this way now.  It is not necessary with such specificity and speed, we’re a Republic, not a completely open democracy, and this is the kind of stupidity that is killing our troops and contractors unnecessarily.

  • Anonymous

    “…the goddamned assholes in the Obama administration who couldn’t
    keep their fucking mouths shut and put his re-election over basic
    operational security.”It’s about “Priorities”.  Just remember, “It’s ALL about Barry, ALL the time.”Oh, and never forget, “Barry Killed BinLaden”.

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