Where is our Greek Chorus of nay sayers? Where are our Obama Bashers? Jon Stewart has the last word on those who admonish the President for daring to speak about killing Bin Laden. You would think Bin Laden was Voldemort.
How does Mission Accomplished fit into this plan of silence? Are you all smoking crack or what? War time over here. Celebrate the death of a killer terrorist dirtbag and then move on. Are you in mouring over Hitler? Stalin? Remember the 3000 dead on that bright, crisp September morning. Remember our war dead.
Brian Williams hosts tonight. He described this event as being the most important of his journalistic career. Rock Center with Brian Williams ‘Inside the Situation Room’ airs Wednesday 9pm/8c on NBC.
“I did choose the risk,” the president said in an exclusive interview with Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams. “The reason I was willing to make that decision of sending in our SEALs to try to capture or kill bin Laden rather than to take some other options was ultimately because I had 100 percent faith in the Navy SEALs themselves.”
A year after the May 1, 2011, raid on bin Laden’s compound, Obama and several of the advisers who helped plan the operation, known as “Operation Neptune’s Spear,” spoke exclusively to NBC News, reflecting on the tense months spent planning and debating the feasibility of this daring raid. The interviews occurred before the president made an unannounced visit to Kabul on Tuesday, where he and President Hamid Karzai signed an agreement on the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
“This had to be such a close-held operation,” the president said in the interview airing tonight at 9pm/8c on NBC. “There were only a handful of staff in the White House who knew about this.”
The president did not share news of the mission’s launch with his staff, or with the first lady.
“Even a breath of this in the press could have chased bin Laden away,” Obama said. “We didn’t know at that point whether there might be underground tunnels coming out of that compound that would allow him to escape.”
Catholics United has called Paul Ryan on the carpet for his admiration of Ayn Rand. Rand, an atheist, is touted by many conservatives and libertarians as the quintessential capitalist.
Ayn taught the value of self over all other values. She considered anything less than regaling the individual close to slavery. Catholics United reminded Ryan of the teachings of Christ and he backed off the Rand worship. Larry O’Donnell plays a tape that seals the deal between atheist Rand and Ryan. It establishes his close relationship to the movement that has grown out of her philosophy.
Can people walk themselves back from commitments like this? Is it possible to greatly admire individuals whose core values are different from ours? Is it possible to espouse far-right (for lack of a better term) capitalism and practice the major tenants of Christianity or Judaism who tell us that we are our brother’s keeper?
