A U.S. soldier pulls security during a battle drill on Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin A. Moeller
Navy SEALs Aren’t Enough To Win War On Terror -- Max Boot, New York Post
The paradox, and saving grace, of the Obama presidency is that while the president is indecisive about big things — the Afghan surge, intervention in Syria, entitlement reform, repealing the sequester, reopening the federal government, even the fast disappearing “Pacific pivot” — he is very decisive about ordering drone strikes and raids by Special Operations Forces (or SOF) on terrorist targets.
Indeed, Obama may well be the most SOF-friendly president we’ve ever had.
This weekend, acting on the president’s orders, Special Operations teams came ashore in both Somalia and Libya. In Libya, the operators captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, alias Abu Anas al-Liby, who is wanted for the bombing of two US embassies in Africa in 1998.
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My Comment: The U.S. does need a different strategy to combat terrorism .... but I do not see it from this administration yet.
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