Ground Work
By 2005, many inside the C.I.A. had reached the conclusion that the Bin Laden hunt had grown cold, and the agency’s top clandestine officer ordered an overhaul of the agency’s counterterrorism operations. The result was Operation Cannonball, a bureaucratic reshuffling that placed more C.I.A. case officers on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (NYT, 5/3/11)
RedStateVT is more than happy to credit the Obama administration with the bin Laden trophy. What we will not countenance is the narrative that Bush abandoned the search. As the date above clearly shows, his administration did not.
So Long, So Wrong
For too long now the Obama administration has shown a touching but sometimes counterproductive sensitivity for the sensitivities of the Muslim world. It has proceeded as if it was more important to be liked than feared and as if some differences were not fundamental but always a product of misunderstanding. This, though, is not the case. The United States can do little to mollify Islamists and others who seek the obliteration of Israel and the return of holy Jerusalem to the Muslim fold. It can do little with bigots who loathe America’s culture of tolerance — for all religions, for gays, for lesbians and, of course, for women. (Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 5/3/11)
Count us baffled. Cohen is a pretty reliable Obama cheerleader…..and then he writes this which could just as easily come from the pen of Charles Krauthammer.
Enhancements
Some of the detainees who confirmed the courier’s nickname were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the CIA’s formal name for what is now widely viewed as torture. This adds a moral ambiguity to a story that is otherwise one of triumphal retribution and justice. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 5/2/11)
Key phrase above – of course – is “moral ambiguity.” Fortunately it is a disease that only the Left suffers from in this case.
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