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Why? We managed to find and rescue an esteemed USAF officer. It was an amazing operation. But, why would we disclose assets, technology, operational units, time to fly operational units from A to B, the agencies involved, the strengths of each agency for the specific mission, how we obscured the truth, how we verified the identity of the injured officer, etc.???? We are fighting a war with an inept and incompetent third world country. The next war will be with Russia and China. Now they know about our capabilities. Why did we tell them? National aggrandizement is of little value. Personal aggrandizement is of even less value. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | ||
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Don't underestimate your enemy. They are neither inept nor incompetent. Rom 13:4 If you do evil, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
That's the "official" story We have no idea if that was anywhere actually near what happened It could all be a ruse for the next time someone goes down in Iran | |||
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Agreed plus all the negativism about our armed forces. Remember when all the so called experts were saying we would have at least 10k casualties when we invaded Iraq and how they were supposed to have one of the most formidable armies in the world? "Even if the world were perfect it wouldn't be." ... Yogi Berra | |||
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The Russians would tell the Iranians anyway. | |||
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We could spread mis-information like this every day and have Iranian forces scrambling all over the place looking for our downed pilots. We could also have some fun with the news media as well.  | |||
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My concern is with the rat bastard who leaked the exact location of the downed pilot to Iran. He should be executed. | |||
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Not the first time that it’s happened, not gonna be the last either. People need to be held accountable for their actions. “But Im just a reporter” Hang that fucker for Treason just like anyone else. Look at Jerry Rivers (aka Geraldo Rivera) and his bullshit. The very beginning of Operation Gothic Serpent (Somalia- Aug 1993) reporters we’re waiting at the exact landing spot on the beach when the SEAL Team came ashore. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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According to this article, the FBI arrested the leaker, a former SOCOM employee. One hopes that justice will prevail. Let me help you out. Which way did you come in? | |||
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That leaker was involved in another leak, not the one concerning the WSO in Iran. | |||
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Sending a message to not fuck with us? This is a tradition going back decades:  Even centuries:  And we don't disclose everything. "The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
^^^^^. I watched a video recently about that. It seems that a loyalist near Trenton saw our Army marching towards Trenton that night in front of his house. He snuck out his back door and rode to where the Hessian commander was staying. He/they were up late drinking and playing cards and didn't want to see the loyalist. So, a note was written describing what he saw, with instructions to give it to the commander. He put it in his pocket without reading it. Had he read it, Washington's plan surely would have failed. Providence, or simple hubris by the Hessians? ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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Disclosing “the bomb” by setting it off over Nagasaki is way, way different than saying “we’re building a bomb that’s going to take out entire cities!”. Kind of a “yeah, look what we got!” Moment. Way, way, WAY more different is some little rat-fuck leaking secrets about how we are making the bomb, how big of a bang this bomb is gonna make… then some twatcicle from the press publishing it all over the place. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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| Experienced Slacker |
I keep my cynical trust in the fact that DARPA is likely working on stuff 20 years ahead still. Really hate that billions are funneled to it with no oversight, but we'll always have surprises in store. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Yeah, but who doesn't want to be able to say "We had to use the Disconbobulator.". | |||
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A Grateful American |
 "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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