The operation to rescue Capt. Richard Phillips involved dozens of Navy SEALs, who parachuted from an aircraft into the scene near dark Saturday, landing in the ocean. The SEALs were part of a group of Special Operations forces involved in the effort, according to military officials.<\/p>\n
The SEALs set up operations on the USS Bainbridge, which had been communicating with the four pirates via radio and had used smaller boats to make deliveries of food and water to their lifeboat.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now why it is that we’d send ships out into that kind of environment without SEALS or Recon Marines on board, I’m not too sure (maybe because we don’t have enough of them).<\/p>\n
But it kinda does make sense not to start a fight until the resources you need are in place.<\/p>\n
Now the politics of this are kind of depressing.<\/p>\n
Because what it suggest is that there are people whose position is – simply – that Obama can do no right (or no wrong).<\/p>\n
There’s a word for people who take those kinds of positions. <\/p>\n
Salesmen.<\/p>\n
Now it’s perfectly respectable to agree or disagree with a lot of what Obama does. But when people suspend their independent judgment in favor of blind position-taking, we ought to call ’em like we see ’em.<\/p>\n
Salesmen.<\/p>\n
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