By Chris Stirewalt August 21,2014 TEAM OBAMA LEAKS FAILED RAID IN BID TO SHORE UP IMAGE With President Obama facing increasing pressure to respond more forcefully to Islamist militants in the wake of the beheading of American journalist James Foley, the White House leaked word that the president had authorized a failed rescue mission to save Foley and other Americans hostages. Why on earth would anyone leak that? Publicizing a failed mission hurts U.S. military clout and certainly the captors already knew about the effort. So why? The answer came later on Wednesday night when it was revealed that the administration, in keeping with longstanding U.S. policy, had declined to pay ransom for Foleys release. The leak of the failed rescue was evidently an effort to show the president was not simply a bystander Weve seen this before when the administration, long scorned by journalists for its clampdown on reporters, starts getting very leaky on national security when the president is jammed up politically. Remember the kill list and the lavish details on the killing of Usama bin Laden? (Excerpt) Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/21/team-obama-leaks-failed-raid-in-bid-to-shore-up-image/ The politics of this release of information stinks to high heaven. We now know that ISIL was demanding $132 million for James Foley. One has to ask why? Did Obama just trade Bowe Bergdahl for five key Taliban Terrorists? Why not $132 million for Foley, and some key terrorists in Gitmo? Including the method of how we initiated the failed rescue operation is counter productive for our special forces and intelligence collection.
Wehrwolfen yesterday: "Why didn't Obama do something to try and rescue Foley?" Wehrwolfen today: "Why did Obama do something to try and rescue Foley?" Seriously dude, are you sure your aren't a democrat making these posts to make conservatives look like hypocritical idiots?
How many times has something like that happened.....Syria atleast? "Obama plans on getting us involved in Syria!!!!!" "Obama refused to get us involved in Syria!!!!!" And naturally Fox News: Oceania's Number One Source For News....reports it BOTH ways, flushing the older version down the "memory hole" and it becomes "unhistory".
Why is losing an honor and something to admire? - - - Updated - - - That is a dishonest representation of what he posted. Why am I not surprised you would do that?
The most important national military remembrance day in both Australia and New Zealand is Anzac Day. It falls on the anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, which was a defeat. I don't understand why a country would want to pretend it's never suffered a defeat.
Because otherwise it makes it look like you have something hide. That you're trying to feed a storyline to the public that is not factual, to mislead them for some purpose, and to make it look like you are unstoppable and no one should be worried as such. Lying to the public about a defeat is just the generals trying to save face because they never want to admit they could ever be outdone.
