J-Rod10 said:
Out of curiosity, is he wrong about the Bin Laden deal? We can find Saddam in a hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere, in no time. Meanwhile, Bin Laden's over here in his mansion, in an ally's country living his best life.
We've established precedent on the Ivanka deal. So long as you didn't "intend" to break the law, all is well.
I got a laugh out of that last night when it was all over the news. Everybody throwing a fit. Two years ago they were hardcore pushing a candidate for President who did the same, as Secretary of State.
This is actually kind of funny. Is Trump wrong? That bin Laden was holed up in a mansion that was nice, but that Trump had seen nicer? Wrong about that? Probably not. Wrong that everyone in Pakistan knew he was there? Probably wrong about that, but probably right that there were a lot of people who
did know. Such is the nature of Pakistan-US relations. Wrong about McRaven being a "Hillary Cinton fan" and an "Obama backer?" Hard to say -- he served under Obama and Clinton was Secretary of State.
But is Trump wrong to criticize Adm. McRaven? What do you think? That the guy who led the raid on bin Laden's compound is actually somehow responsible for bin Laden evading capture for 10 years? McRaven was leading the team looking for bin Laden for three years before they found him. So you think it's fair to blame him for the entire 10-year manhunt as Trump does?
Perhaps a bigger question is: clearly US intelligence and the military aren't perfect, but without any information do you want to level these kinds of accusations and insults at a career Navy officer who by all accounts had a distinguished career? Who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, but who didn't publicly endorse one side or the other?
By all means -- follow Trump into the shithole abyss of pettiness and ignorance. The poor man is over his head and has no idea what he is talking about. His acolytes, however, thinks what he says is reasonable.
Perhaps the most "blame" over bin Laden can be laid at George W. Bush's feet, and at the failures of his administration in 2001 and 2002. Iraq, for example, was a fiasco; a war prosecuted on false premises and faulty intelligence that has led to years of chaos, the strengthening of Islamist extremism in the region and elsewhere, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands. It's obviously complicated. But Trump is obviously way out of line.
As for the emails: precedent set? Great! So Trump will stop harping on Clinton's emails and encouraging his followers to "lock her up"? Right. This will surely happen.