This does not go to Obama only. For starters, the ships own boarding party should have been able to handle it once the Captian jumped overboard. There would have been no need for a sniper. With the hostage in the water, just have the ships 5" gun blow up the lifeboat. Long before the SEALs arrived, there should have been a RIB with a Ships boarding party ready to exploit such an event as the hostage trying to escape. As far as not being able to return fire, you don't do that in a hostage situation. Having been in the Navy Under Carter, Reagan, Bush. Clinton, and Bush 43, I can tell you that whomever is in the White House has little effect on the culture. The Navy, in the words of Sci Fi author Robert H Hienlin (A Navy veteran himself) Describes the Navy as a "Non combatant service force". The average Sailor recieves no wepons training what so ever. Even when he has to have a wepon to guard the ship, his only training consists of firing 30 rouds with a pistol or 40 with a rifle. Even the regualr SEALs who deploy with the fleet were not considered up to the task.This is why they had to fly SEAL Team 6 in from the States instead of using the regular SEALS who were on board the USS Boxer.
The culture has always been there weather under a GOP or Democrat president.
The culture has always been there weather under a GOP or Democrat president.
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