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Jenn, Happy and Joyous Easter to you and yours...Thanks for your wonderful site...Warm wishes, Paulee
Happy Easter for Captain Phillips and his family, since his amazing rescue.
But, I wanted to make a point about Obama's role in this:
Now that the stand-off with the Somali pirates has come to a happy ending, I want to congratulate the US Navy for some great sniper execution, and give kudos to that ship captain for his willingness to sacrifice himself for his crew.
It is a bitter thing, however, to see Obama benefit from this distraction from his otherwise evil executive activities. He is going to be praised for weeks to come for giving the presidential order for snipers to take out the pirates that were holding the US sea captain hostage in the life-boat.
But let's take a closer look at the order that he gave. It included the condition that they could shoot "IF the captain's life were in imminent danger." What kind of hedging/waffling is this? Certainly, the captain's life was, and had been, in constant danger since his abduction. Was Obama implying that the SEAL snipers should not have fired until such time as when the pirates could be seen with a gun to his head and that they APPEARED ready to pull the trigger? What if they simply headed toward shore, having refueled with help from other pirate vessels that had been allowed to reach the scene? Should the snipers hold their fire then? What if they ushered the captain on board another such pirate vessel? Should the snipers hold their fire then?
This brings the question, one that the Obama-slobbering MSM will never raise: Why did Obama not give approval for the snipers to kill those hostage-takers under ANY opportunity that first presented itself? In other words, the president should have said: Take the FIRST CLEAR SHOT you can get.
Apparently, Obama believes that such pirates deserve to be taken alive, as long as their hostage appears to still be alive, and said pirates do not appear to be executing him at the moment. Obama also did not seem aware that the pirates might have killed their hostage so abruptly, that the sniper fire would not have arrived in time to prevent it, or that they might not have been afforded a clear shot at that precise moment, having allowed previous clear-shot opportunities to lapse.
Could it be that these particular SEALs interpreted Obama's orders liberally, thus waiving Obama's requirement to wait until the very moment that this hostage's life would be taken? I suspect this to be the case.
At any rate, the Navy's special forces deserve the applause for this out-come, while Obama's resolve to use necessary force remains questionable.
Thanks, Paulee! Hope you had a nice Easter, too!
NY for Mitt readers...be sure to read our great teammate Paulee's blog at CTR.net -- she always has great posts and comments!
http://www.committedtoromney.net/profile/PauleeWillette
Thanks for your comment Paul... agree the NAVY Special Forces do deserve a big Thank You for the heroic rescue of Captain Phillips -- I just read at NRO's The Corner blog Capt. Phillips is 'the brother of Jim Phillips, a Mideast expert at the Heritage Foundation.'
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/
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