{"id":28709,"date":"2012-02-11T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28709"},"modified":"2012-02-11T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:35:12","slug":"bolton-obama-didnt-get-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28709","title":{"rendered":"Bolton: Obama didn’t “get” bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations told the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Convention that all President Obama did in regards to the Navy SEALs’ execution of Osama bin Laden was “get out of the way” according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Basically what Obama did was get out of the way,” said Mr. Bolton Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “It was a decision that 99.99 percent of the American people would agree with. That does not equal a foreign policy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That kind of puts in perspective the story that Bite Me told earlier<\/a> this week about Obama’s “gutsy” call;<\/p>\n

“The president, he went around the table, with all the senior people, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he said, ‘I have to make a decision, what is your opinion?’ He started with the national security adviser, the secretary of state, and he ended with me. Every single person in that room hedged their bet, except (then-CIA director) Leon Panetta. Leon said go,” said Biden.<\/p>\n

Biden told the president “my suggestion is don’t go,” saying there were more details that had to be checked to truly ascertain if bin Laden was indeed in the compound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So yeah, it was “gutsy” to make the decision in that room where all of the pussies were afraid to pull the trigger, but when you’re talking about making the decision in the middle of the country that mostly wanted to see bin Laden dead or imprisoned, it doesn’t look so “gutsy”, then does it? It looks like the politically correct decision in that light.<\/p>\n

I still think that the decision to kill bin Laden was also the political equivalent of “asking for forgiveness is easier than asking for permission”. It was easier than taking him alive and then dealing with the political fallout of his prison conditions and the lawyer-employment opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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