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Rules of Engagement, Presidential Orders

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What exactly are liberals crowing about today? They detest the military. The United States military successfully rescued Great American, Captain Richard Phillips on Easter Sunday. Our troops performed superbly, and the matter was finally ended, most decisively, by expertly trained, highly skilled Navy SEALS.

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To hear liberals tell it, Barack Obama was whispering into the SEAL teams’ earpieces throughout the entire ordeal. Under the current Commander in Chief’s leadership, an operation that should have taken no longer than the time required to get the SEAL team in place, went on for five days. The SEALs arrived via a C130 and parachuted along with their equipment and inflatable boat. They were then picked up by the Bainbridge. On Wednesday, April 8, 2009, four Somali pirates stormed the Maersk Alabama, a US flagged ship. This was the first time in over 200 years an American ship was hijacked. The Maersk crew of 21 responded in the spirit of Flight 93 and put up a fight. The crew was able to retake their ship after the courageous 
Captain Phillips offered himself up to the pirates and left with them in an enclosed lifeboat. The pirates were armed with AK-47 assault weapons, the ship’s crew was unarmed, although well trained in resisting pirate attacks. The White House response to the taking of an American hostage? Let the FBI handle it. The FBI hostage negotiators are trained to deal with citizens who go off the deep end; bank robbers and crazies, not military operations. The United States armed forces do not take orders from law enforcement agencies. The Obama administration has been trying to paint this as a law enforcement matter from the beginning. Liberals don’t understand the military, thus, it is to be expected that they are not aware of the Rules of Engagement (ROE). The military was already authorized to use force against pirates or to free hostages; unless ordered not to by a superior officer. It is the White House that is claiming Obama gave the Pentagon two standing orders to use force if the Captain’s life were in “imminent danger.” One has to wonder at what point after being taken hostage by heavily armed, khat crazed pirates, was Captain Phillips’ life NOT in danger? The other question that must be raised is: why the need for two separate orders saying exactly the same thing? Despite what the left chooses to believe about their reincarnation of General Patton, the chain of command doesn’t work that way. The most troubling facet of the entire ordeal is the time it took to free this brave American. On Friday night, Captain Phillips again showed his courage and skill. Under cover of darkness, the Captain managed to free himself and dove into heavily shark infested waters. This is a tactical move designed to create a diversion to give advantage to the military. Imagine what the Captain must have felt, trusting our extraordinary military to be there to save him, and finding himself alone and at the mercy of heavily armed, murderous thugs who were now going to punish him for his impertinence. Why did the President have to issue orders to use force if the Captain was in “imminent danger” if the ROE already provided that? Unless, the truly unthinkable is what really happened: that the President had ordered the Navy not to act and seriously believed the FBI was going to resolve this thing. To be fair, Attorney General Eric Holder did announce on Friday that he was seriously considering filing criminal charges against the pirates. Incredibly, they didn’t release their hostage immediately when threatened with a thundercloud of this magnitude. Meanwhile, we heard nothing from our Commander in Chief, who busied himself with his high carbon footprint pizza party and new puppy. Before the libs start caterwauling about how he “couldn’t talk about it” for security reasons; it would not have been a threat to national security for the President of the United States to give a brief statement along the lines of: we’re doing all we can to assure the safe return of Captain Phillips. Nor has there been any mention of Mr. Obama contacting the Captain’s wife and family with some effort at reassurance and support. It is not clear yet whether the lifeboat ran out of fuel or not. It’s not unlikely that an experienced sailor as clear headed as Captain Philips found a way to disable it. The currents were taking the boat and our Captain closer to the shore of Somalia, a lawless hell hole dominated by radical Wahabbi Islamists. Somehow, our troops were able to convince the pirates to allow them to attach a tow line between the Bainbridge and the lifeboat. They persuaded the pirates that the Bainbridge would tow them into calmer waters. What our quick thinking troops actually did was establish a tow line that our SEALS could use. The sole surviving pirate, about whom much will be written by the MSM in coming days, as they spin a new fiction about the poor little urchin, entered the Bainbridge under the guise of making a phone call and received treatment for an injury sustained in the hijacking, inflicted by the resourceful Alabama crew with an ice pick. The pirates were getting crabby. They made it clear that if they did not get their $2 million ransom, they would kill the Captain. By the time the SEALS were able to take action, the lifeboat was less than twenty miles from the shore. It had become a no lose situation for Barack Obama. If the military didn’t take action, we would have lost our Captain to a lawless land dominated by the most dangerous forces in radical Islam. The United States would have lost all control of the Captain’s fate. If the military took action and failed, Obama had an obvious scapegoat. “Well, I gave the order! They screwed it up!” Captain Frank Castellano, commanding officer of the USS Bainbridge, gave the order and our Navy SEALS performed splendidly. The three pirates were dead before they heard the shots. Captain Phillips was rescued and taken to safety. All in a day’s work for our SEALS. They coulda done it hanging upside down from a rope without breaking a sweat. If Barack Obama wants to prove his mettle as a Commander in Chief, he’s got the opportunity. He gave us some prattle about how he is going to stop the piracy. He has public opinion on his side if he chooses to act militarily against the pirate training camps and hideouts. He may also want to give a little credit to his predecessor, George W Bush who pretty much left him with the military intact after Clinton gutted it. He might also wish to concern himself with our female hostages in Iran. Perhaps the liberal bombast over their courageous Commander in Chief would be a bit less disingenuous if Obama was not slashing the military budget. We all celebrate the military’s heroic actions in saving the life of a truly great American who could teach all of us, perhaps most especially the Commander in Chief, a few things about courage and character. Captain Phillips, unlike the Oval Office Occupant, is not deficient in humility. He took no credit for his own fortitude, instead giving all of the credit to his rescuers. Al Qaeda and the rest of the Islamic extremists, having far more acumen about military operations than the mainstream media, have watched this entire tribulation unfold. Conjure up the scene: the most powerful Navy on earth standing around staring at a diminutive lifeboat. No bold statements or swift action from the Commander in Chief. Instead, we’re “negotiating” via law enforcement. Even some conservatives are embarrassing themselves and insisting that Obama has “changed” and now appreciates the brilliance of our military. They sound like a bunch of battered wives in denial. It is perplexing: what, exactly the liberals are so feverish about? Indubitably, only a liberal regards doing nothing as “decisive action.”


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