https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/04/30/romney-cmon-even-jimmy-carter-would-have-given-the-order-to-take-out-bin-laden/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:35:20 -0400<![CDATA[A hard jab at O that has the added benefit of being true. Jimmeh gave the order for Operation Eagle Claw; why wouldn&#8217;t he give the order to liquidate OBL? The politics of counterterrorism being what they are, it&#8217;s easier for a president to err on the side of aggression than passivity. If Obama had sent in the SEALs and things had gone wrong, it would have been embarrassing and politically damaging but O could always plead that his motives were pure and that he&#8217;d been duly diligent. He was after Public Enemy Number One, he had decent intel, and he&#8217;d assigned the best troops in the world to the mission. By 2011, respecting Pakistan&#8217;s sovereignty on something like this was pure folly given the depth of ISI&#8217;s treachery in Afghanistan for the past 10 years. In fact, here&#8217;s a sensational tidbit about the raid buried in Newsweek&#8217;s new story on the hunt for Zawahiri:]]>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:43:48 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/04/30/romney-cmon-even-jimmy-carter-would-have-given-the-order-to-take-out-bin-laden-n198207