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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst Raid on Trump's Watch: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.htmlQuestions Cloud U.S. Raid on Qaeda Branch in Yemen
By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | FEB. 1, 2017
WASHINGTON Just five days after taking office, over dinner with his newly installed secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Trump was presented with the first of what will be many life-or-death decisions: whether to approve a commando raid that risked the lives of American Special Operations forces and foreign civilians alike.
President Barack Obamas national security aides had reviewed the plans for a risky attack on a small, heavily guarded brick home of a senior Qaeda collaborator in a mountainous village in a remote part of central Yemen. But Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended.
With two of his closest advisers, Jared Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon, joining the dinner at the White House along with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Mr. Trump approved sending in the Navys SEAL Team 6, hoping the raid early last Sunday would scoop up cellphones and laptop computers that could yield valuable clues about one of the worlds most dangerous terrorist groups. Vice President Mike Pence and Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, also attended the dinner.
As it turned out, almost everything that could go wrong did. And on Wednesday, Mr. Trump flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to be present as the body of the American commando killed in the raid was returned home, the first military death on the new commander in chiefs watch.
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First Raid on Trump's Watch: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End (Original Post)
dalton99a
Feb 2017
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flamingdem
(39,313 posts)1. Garbage in, garbage out
This inept administration is a danger for our troops and innocents worldwide.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)2. Bloody balls up
Who needs intel briefings?
brush
(53,771 posts)3. I heard on Progress radio that moomlight wasn't the only reason O rejected okaying the raid
The intelligence wasn't strong enough to take the risk so President Obama rejected it.
trump and his inexperienced crew okayed it to try to have a splashy military success he could use to show what a strong leader he is. Instead he show what faulty judgment he has i his attempt to one-up Obama.
What's the phrase "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Now Reuters is reporting
this raid ended up a Cluster-F*ck of the first degree.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)5. It was a huge success.
Spicer facts and Conway facts.
Cha
(297,169 posts)6. WTF does blotus "advisors" know?.. nothing. And, this is what they got..
Will Congress hold hearings into this?