I've been monitoring the news this afternoon and the President is talking tough (or rather his version of talking tough) about going after ISIS and asking Congress for broad authority to get the job done.
The talking heads are slobbering all over the idea of sending in Special Operations to kill, or capture the enemy and rescue hostages.
But has anyone paid attention to the number of failed hostage rescue attempts over the past year?
* United States commandos stormed a village in southernYemen early Saturday in an effort to free an American photojournalist held hostage by Al Qaeda, but the raid ended in tragedy, with the kidnappers killing the American and a South African held with him, United States officials said.Has ISIS and their associates read our Special Operations playbook? Or is it finally happening just like that old skool Snake Eating General said it would. SOCOM stayed in the news and the enemy is now waiting for them when they get off the choppers.
* Elite US military forces secretly invaded Syria recently in a risky and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to free US journalist James Foley before he was killed by Islamic State (Isis) militants, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday.
* Two attempted rescue missions to save hostages held by Islamic State (Isis) in Syria ended in failure last night, according to reports. The failed operations took place in the self-proclaimed IS capital city of Raqqa on 1 January. The target was to retrieve a number of hostages including Muadh al-Kasasbeh, the Jordanian pilot who was captured by Islamic State after his plane was downed over IS territory.
Check out the film at the 3:33 mark...
"One of these days... you're gonna fly in and he's gonna shoot down every one of your helicopters and kill your SEALs...mark my words" is what the old skool snake eater warned....
The media laughed but are we seeing that today?
