Without sufficient intelligence
Good god – how has this flown under the radar so long? Trump approved that commando raid in Yemen without due diligence.
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was looking into whether more civilians were killed in a raid on al Qaeda in Yemen on the weekend, in the first operation authorized by President Donald Trump as commander in chief.
U.S. Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens was killed in the raid on a branch of al Qaeda, also known as AQAP, in al Bayda province, which the Pentagon said also killed 14 militants. However, medics at the scene said about 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that an investigating team had “concluded regrettably that civilian non-combatants were likely killed” during Sunday’s raid. It said children may have been among the casualties.
Central Command said its assessment “seeks to determine if there were any still-undetected civilian casualties in the ferocious firefight.”
U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.
Emphasis added.
He what???
Can we take this seriously now?
I’m not sure whom you mean by “we” but there isn’t much to expect from a government whose primary operating rule is, “If it isn’t happening to me, it’s ok.”
I feel obliged to sound a note of caution, that this would not be the first time in history that the U.S. military botched an operation on its own and then tried to blame it on the politicians who approved it. But even that would be noteworthy — if the military is selling him out to the press just two weeks into his presidency, it kind of undermines the claim that the military was chafing under the Obama Administration and yearned for a “strong leader” like Trump.
And given everything else we’ve seen, it seems much more likely that Mr. Tough Guy rushed to order a mission that Obama had good reason for not approving. For a decent human being, seeing that Seal’s body come home to Dover and talking to his family would be a sober and humbling experience from which a lesson might be learned. But Trump doesn’t do “humbling,” or “learning.”
SM:
Then Trump’s obviously their man, or rather their general dumpster.
Or should that be Trumpster?
So, is this already the point at witch Some One says: “The Mooron has done his duty. The Mooron can go”?
(Sorry, I may have mixed up my fairy tails; I gotta spell on me)