Will the real life story of incredible bravery, and the extreme courage of warriors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods be lost just because of Machiavellian politics ?
Updates as more information is coming through. Even if the true story of their heroism casts an uncomfortable light of truth upon the lies told by President Obama and his administration we will tell it.
This article recounts many of the recent Islamist outrages due to excessive sensitivity toward cartoons and videos depicting their barbarism. Perhaps if sated, they would become "fed up" in the anachronistic sense of the word harking back to the days of falconry, get their fill of flying off into riots and ignore the prey they are directed to kill.
With adequate security, we might be able to handle the resultant riots and prevent the customary slaughter; perhaps not. I am insufficiently sanguine about our current competence and motivation to provide such security to agree with the article that that's what we should do. Still, I appreciate the thinking behind it.
As I understand it, Woods and Doherty were EX-Seals employed as mercenaries by a private security firm for non-personnel reasons and they left their posts to insert themselves into a firefight not related to their duties. Didn’t they, in fact, abandon their posts? Didn’t they deprive their employer of their services, services they were well paid for?
Didn’t they abandon their employers financial interests (and their fiduciary duties to their families) to hare off after excitement and glory?
If so, it seems to me that Obama was gracious to declare them as part of Stevens security instead of as interlopers attracted to a live firefight. If so, Obamas action was generous.
That is certainly one way of looking at it and is probably consistent with President Obama’s world view. Perhaps that is among the reasons he devotes all of his time to Presidential duties, such as fund raising and campaigning, rather than receiving intelligence briefings or meeting with his Jobs Council.