The Political Inquirer

Analysis: Obama scores win on pirate crisis
His administration passes its first critical national security test

…against 4 lightly armed pirates in an out-of-gas lifeboat with a single hostage, taking 4 days to ‘pass’.

… as a bit player who issued a general instruction on force that he had to clarify the next day and even that was stretched unbelievably to carry out a successful rescue by the line officers.

The MSM (especially MSNBC) certainly have dumbed down the ‘testing’, haven’t they?

First off, let me say that Obama did not give in to his most liberal tendencies and refuse to allow force and for that I- and all involved at the scene- are grateful.  Next, I like to commend the line officers involved and am just in awe of the Navy SEALS.  Three simultaneous headshots- one through a glass portal- against a bobbing boat?  Just, WOW! And last but certainly not least, Capt. Phillips who took care of 95% of the ’security test’ on his own without a Harvard degree or legions of ‘experts’. The good Captain just oozes courage and leadership.

A ‘national security test’ for Obama? Please!  His instruction was to ‘use force if the hostage is in imminent danger’   Well, Duh!  And the actual events- had they gone the least bit wrong- would have led to calls for court-marshals.  The instant response to what was ‘imminent danger’?  Phillips had an AK-47 pointed at his head.  As if that hadn’t happened a lot over the previous 4 days!  One of the pirate thugs was negotiating, they were being towed in the direction they wished to go, and they had a single hostage; two of the pirates had their heads stuck out to catch some breeze, while the other covered the hostage.  Very little ‘imminent danger’ at that point.  It was an act of opportunity and the right action was carried out flawlessly; but Obama had little to do with it.  The Imperial News media will have the Big O all but pulling the trigger, though.

I will predict one thing, though, other than the straight-forward excessive credit being given and taken by the White House.  The captain and possibly the crew will be at the White House on either the evening of the 14th (to reduce the turnout for the next day events) or on the 15th itself to paint the other activities of the day as ‘unpatriotic’.  In this White House, all things are political and for media consumption: rest assured that there will be those in the back rooms and the MSM that will use this against the feared success of April 15th’s Tea Parties.

I still plan to be one of those ungrateful, unpatriotic ‘radicals’ who can do basic math and see that the saving of a single brave sea captain wil not undo the impending bankruptcy of this nation.