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Sir, I agree 99% of his decisions have been crap, this one succeeded, he could have chosen less risky options that failed. I'm saying he made a gutsy call, not that he is gutsy.
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Actually, you said: "he did show some guts with the UBL raid". I do understand though that you meant the call and not the man. Fair enough....but, his fan base would have the world believe otherwise.
IMHO, it was a calculated political risk more than a gutsy call....
I simply won't bestow the "gutsy" description as lightly as those in the media or the political persuasion do, especially when his motives were more from a political motive than militarily. As a military HVT, was he really worth men’s lives put at risk when we could have used other options? I'm not so sure. OBL was not running the war from his bedroom/war room; he was spanking the monkey and pacing his courtyard. Obama did need proof though and that was his justification. Does that make it worth mens lives?
I'm glad he is dead and Obla-bla-blama does deserve credit for this but, if Bush had approved this opn and conducted himself as Obama has, and one or more of those SEALs was hurt or killed, what would the narrative been like in our press, given our other options?
I'm also quite put off at how much intel from this target is "leaked" and perhaps even created in order to rationalize and sensationalize this opn and OBLs military worth. As far as I'm concerned, Obama's only milking it for more political worth for as long as he can. It's too much to do about a man who it seems had little to no effect on operations in AQI or Taliban operations other than as the provider of a targeting dream list........jd