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ucodegen is correct or mostly correct. There are several books written on this subject by U.S. folks who were there at the time, in different branches of service. It is possible to educate oneself on this matter…[/quote]
I am a dumb guy so why don’t you educate me… The only accounts of US folks that I can find go like this.
They all seem to suggest that Delta force presented several plans to take out Bin Laden, but Bush administration/Gen Tommy Franks did not approve any of them and decided to let Afghans do it…
Do you disagree with such a characterization? If yes, then educate me![/quote]
Some people might be surprised at this, but I do disagree with the characterization. Mostly with the framing.
I have no doubt that Bush wanted to get Bin Laden. Same with Franks. I suspect he was presented with a number of options, including letting the Afghans do it. I don’t know exactly what all those options were, but I suspect they included most of them listed by many sources. Between he and his advisors, it was (apparently) decided that “letting the Afghans do it” was the best choice. Not because he didn’t have the balls to do it. But because based on the facts he was given, it was the best choice.
Those are the kinds of choices commanders have to make. Sometimes they’re the right decision, sometimes the wrong one. Bottom line, he DID approve of one of the choices he was given. None of us will probably ever know the details of how and why he came to that decision, but of the thousands of decisions he made as president, I can’t fault him for this one. He did make a decision, one that appeared to him at the time to be the best available.
