Mr. President

[lonestarnot]

FOKnews.com

"President Obama was attacked before during and after his election for supposedly “weak” national security credentials. In point of fact, as of tonight his national security/counter-terrorism credentials probably jumped to Number 4 on the all-time Presidential list, just behind Lincoln, FDR, and Madison."



Note the twitpic there

http://foknewschannel.com/

[renegade000]

1. I think this was a great paragraph:

" It is fascinating that after a decade of breaking all of our traditions of spycraft and not torturing so we wouldn’t get bad intelligence and not starting wars that don’t have anything to do with the matter at hand, it only took two years, three months, and eleven days after reverting to the ordinary old hard slog of human intelligence, the target was eliminated. In fact, based on the skeletal timeline the President gave, the target was located only 19 months after the old rules were restored. Remember: the professionals always say spying and intelligence (military intelligence included) resembles not Ian Fleming’s James Bond, but John LeCarre’s George Smiley."

[calimary]

2. Excellent point. BRAINS. Not brawn.

Good old fashioned police detective work, shoe leather, developing sources and connections and increasingly valuable leads. INTELLIGENCE. NOT bombs, tanks, and chest-thumping.

[lonestarnot]

3. Smartest motherfucker in the room gets his man. No running off into the sunset this time, no

mission accomplished codpiece either. :evilgrin:

[Scuba]

4. +1

[lonestarnot]

5. kick!