Navy SEALs would have gotten Capt. Richard Phillips out of the hands of Somali pirates a lot sooner if The Anointed One hadn’t insisted on dragging things out for the sake of negotiations.
That’s right. Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama actually obstructed rescue operations by delaying dispatching a SEAL rescue team to the area then coming up with strict, non-lethal rules of engagement designed to allow Him to negotiate with the terrorists holding Capt. Phillips hostage.
WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his “decisive” handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days.
Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to the scene and then forced to operate under strict, non-lethal rules of engagement.
They say the response duty office at the Pentagon was initially unwilling to grant an order to use lethal force to rescue Phillips. They also report the White House refused to authorize deployment of a Navy SEAL team to the location for 36 hours, despite the recommendation of the on-scene commander.
The White House also turned down two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander on the scene and the captain of the USS Bainbridge.
The SEAL team operated under rules of engagement that required them to do nothing unless the hostage’s life was in “imminent’ danger.
Shame on that arrogant, egotistical bastard. It’s all about Him for the most part. To some extent, it’s about the naivete and arrogance of the Left, thinking that there is a diplomatic solution to every problem, that there’s nothing wrong with sitting down and talking to the bad guys. There is, but that’s a topic for another day.
But The Messiah stood in the way of a rescue attempt and tied the hands of the very people who could have rescued Capt. Phillips a lot sooner.
