{"id":33697,"date":"2018-11-21T02:44:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33697"},"modified":"2018-11-21T02:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T02:44:58","slug":"looking-back-at-bin-laden-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33697","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at bin Laden raid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The nation has been talking in recent days about the commando raid that took out Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share with you a video of President Obama announcing &#8220;to the nation and the world&#8221; the death of the terrorist leader. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNYmK19-d0U?start=49&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most relevant point I want to emphasize here is the president&#8217;s explanation of the tireless work done by anti-terrorism experts working for two presidential administrations. President Bush&#8217;s team began the hunt for bin Laden shortly after 9\/11, then handed it off to President Obama&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>It took time, patience and perseverance for our intelligence community to find bin Laden in that compound in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there came the unfounded and idiotic criticism from Donald J. Trump that the team that took out bin Laden should have done it &#8220;much sooner.&#8221; He laid the criticism at the feet of retired Admiral William McRaven, the man who coordinated the effort that resulted in bin Laden&#8217;s death in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Trump doesn&#8217;t know what transpired between 9\/11 and the raid that eliminated bin Laden. So his criticism of McRaven is tasteless, ignorant and despicable.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might want to hear from Trump&#8217;s immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, how this huge event came to pass.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation has been talking in recent days about the commando raid that took out Osama bin Laden. I thought I&#8217;d share with you a video of President Obama announcing &#8220;to the nation and the world&#8221; the death of the terrorist leader. Here it is: Perhaps the most relevant point I want to emphasize here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking back at bin Laden raid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,222,540,1899,3458,5263],"class_list":["post-33697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-al-qaeda","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-william-mcraven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33698,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697\/revisions\/33698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}