No doubt there were many who advised against your action against Bin Laden but you put the interests of the nation ahead of the political risks to yourself and your party and did the right thing.
· The spectacular failure of the incredibly mismanaged military of Jimmy Carter’s time had to be weighing on your mind but you did the right thing.
· Your base hates war and loves multilateralism but you kept your secrets, put boots on the ground and asked no one’s permission.
· The Pakis in particular will be hurt politically by this action and suffer deep and well deserved embarrassment. Your base will agree with them but you acted on higher priorities.
· This was an intelligence victory – command and control had to be in the hated CIA. So you gave them control but used our highly trained Special Forces asset rather than the dedicated but aging mercenaries in the CIA.
· You ordered the bastard killed, not captured. This avoided eons of grandstanding political arguments about trials and venues. No endless arguments with Amnesty International as we moved Bin Laden back and forth between Guantanamo and the Charleston brig or the New York Federal Court.
· You buried the scum bag at sea. No grave, monuments, exhumations or endless court fights about those things from streams of foreign governments, supposed relatives, spouses, children, or distant cousins.
· Clearly the Gate’s military had long standing plans about what to do with this worm when we found him. You stuck to the plan – no second guessing; no last minute political considerations.
· You know better than us that these Islamist animals may use the incident as justification for attacks on Americans or others. You know that any attack might be twisted by your political enemies who can be little better than the bad guys. You ignored both threats and did the right thing.
· When you addressed the nation, you talked about justice and made no apologies.
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