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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
DeltaGolf, your bio says you're a educated man and a military buff.....
Before I say this know that I would fight beside my Brother SEALS to the death, anyplace anywhere anytime.
That said your analogy of Operation Eagle Claw and the Battle of Mogadishu as compared to this operation is ludicrous.
This was a small DA operation, risk factor for the good guys, was very low. Chances for success very high if the old terrorist was indeed there.
Spare me your military analogies.
I am sure the SEALS killed something, just who I'd like to know.
Team Sergeant
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Team Sergeant,
Thanks for the input. For the record, I wasn't equating the operations, although I can see how you interpreted it that way. I was merely pointing out the political risk that Obama took authorizing the operation.
As a civilian, an operation that involves entering foreign soil without informing the local government, storming a compound, and capturing or killing the America's most wanted criminal seems like a very high risk operation, albeit relatively safer than Eagle Claw or Mogadishu. Obviously, I must defer to your expertise here that this was a low risk, high success mission.
What would it take for you to accept that the person the SEALS killed was actually Bin Laden? I'm really not trying to start an argument.