A couple controversies...

One, Pakistan. This is prickly. First it's obvious bin laden was receiving material support & Intel from sympathizers (financial or ideological)within the Pakistani government, especially the Pak secret police (ISA, I believe). What they're going to claim is without the $3 billion in annual US aide that the secular government could fall into the Pakistani Taliban's hands, along with their nuclear payload. The case President Obama must make to them is $3 bil wasn't even buying us an adress to OBL when that adress was an hour outside the heart of your government. So we better get more bang for the buck, or no buck.

Two... the administration has slightly boggled the after action report, to the media at least. Did he try to surrender, was he armed, was it a kill mission? etc. The Press Sec says one thing, National Security Advisor another, his deputy another. By suggesting from the start that the SEALs would have let him surrender, or that he need resist for a kill shot to be legitimate, was an unnecessary hole (premise) to dig themselves in. This wasn't the execution of a warrant. OBL would have had no sunder opportunity if a 2000lb daisy cutter landed on his roof, and the PoTUS would have been well within his authority to order that. He should just state, "it was a kill mission, because capture would have invited more American deaths", and be done with it. After all, the bounty was "dead or alive", right?

Three... it's clear now (Leon Panneta, CIA director & Peter King, the chairman of the House Intel Committee have confirmed), that KSM was the first to turn CIA on to the couriers, and that came about via water boarding & then working that thread through detainees at GITMO. That would seem to justify some of Bush's most controversial decisions. Personally, I think the PoTUS himself already vindicated Bush, after all GITMO is still open & tribunals have resumed. I am concerned that "EITs" (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques) have been discontinued. We can argue over their morality, but not their effectiveness.

At any rate, drone attacks under Obama are up 800%; troop surge in Afghanistan; we invaded a sovereign nation to hit the OBL compound; & the mission was a straight kill op ... so how does it feel American & European Left wingers? To know your guy is a bad-ass killing machine??!!

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