{"id":7032,"date":"2014-11-09T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2014-11-09T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:40:06","slug":"seal-shooter-seeks-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7032","title":{"rendered":"SEAL shooter seeks glory"},"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>Robert O&#8217;Neill says it &#8220;doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; if he&#8217;s the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>So, why is he talking about it?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/07\/us\/bin-laden-shooter-interview\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2<\/p>\n<p>I must confess to a certain disgust in recent months over the discussion about who among the commando team actually put a bullet into the world&#8217;s most wanted terrorist. The SEALs &#8212; along with other special ops units, such as the Green Berets and the Delta Force &#8212; have a code that says members guard against revealing who does what to whom.<\/p>\n<p>That code has been broken, it seems, by SEAL team members who now are taking public credit for their actions in the May 2011 raid that resulted in bin Laden&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that O&#8217;Neill said in a CNN interview that doesn&#8217;t disgust me is his assertion that &#8220;He (bin Laden) died afraid, and he knew we were there to kill him. And that&#8217;s closure.&#8221; Do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Some heavily armed men break into your compound, point high-powered assault rifles at your head. Yeah, anyone &#8212; even a monster like bin Laden &#8212; would be &#8220;afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The code that O&#8217;Neill has broken states that special operations forces must not seek personal attention for the participation in team efforts. Yet here he is, telling the world he&#8217;s the shooter &#8212; and then saying &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he keeps talking about tells me something quite different.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it does matter. If it didn&#8217;t, this former commando never would have brought it up.<\/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>Robert O&#8217;Neill says it &#8220;doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; if he&#8217;s the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. So, why is he talking about it? http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/07\/us\/bin-laden-shooter-interview\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 I must confess to a certain disgust in recent months over the discussion about who among the commando team actually put a bullet into the world&#8217;s most wanted terrorist. The SEALs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAL shooter seeks glory<\/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":[12],"tags":[1326,2002,3226,3458,5052],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-delta-force","tag-green-berets","tag-navy-seals","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-us-special-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}