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Having
spoken to some SEALs here in Virginia Beach yesterday and asking why
this thing dragged out for 4 days, the following info emerged.
1. BHO (Obama) wouldn't authorize the DEVGRU/NSWC SEAL teams to
the
scene for 36 hours going against OSC (on scene commander)
recommendation.
2. Once they arrived, BHO imposed restrictions on their ROE that
they couldn't do anything unless
the hostage's life was in "imminent" danger.
3. The first time the hostage jumped, the SEALS had the raggies
all sighted in, but could not fire due to ROE restriction.
4. When the na vy RIB came under fire as it approached with
supplies,
no fire was returned due to ROE restrictions. As the raggies were
shooting at the RIB, they were exposed and the SEALS had them all
dialed in.
5. BHO specifically denied two rescue plans developed by the
Bainbridge CPN and SEAL teams.
6. Bainbridge CPN and SEAL team CDR finally decide they have the
OpArea and OSC authority to solely determine risk to hostage. 4
hours
later, 3 dead raggies
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 performace 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
hadn’t worked out as20well. With the 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
w as 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 — deci
ded 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 [1] 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.
What should have been a standoff lasting only hours — as long as it
took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the
location — became an embarrassing four day and counting standoff
between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy
warship.
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