In no way do I believe that our military does not plan for situations like this. That the military does not have precise plans for what type of troops, what skills needed, and how they get to and from the targets.
In fact it is 100% inconceivable to me that the military does not have preparations for this sort of stuff. I have two different clients who are ex seals, and they have told me that yes there is in fact a very high level of training for rescue situations like this.
Please don’t confuse my convictions of preparedness with ignorance of the risk. So you said, if there was any way for them to succeed then you have no doubt they would have done it. I believe this is entirely false. I believe that there were options presented and success was a possible outcome given a high level of risk. There is never a situation where success is 100% gauranteed. I think there are always degrees of risk and that the decision made was that there was to much to lose both in human lives, military ops and political capital, to try to save these lives.
