President Obama admits that he “did not lose sleep” over the chance that the high-risk mission he ordered last week could mean the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
However, he also acknowledged in a pre-recorded interview with Steve Kroft that aired Sunday evening on CBS’ 60 Minutes that his chief concern above all others was “can we still get the guys out” if the Navy SEAL raid on the suspected bin Laden hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan went sideways.
Fortunately for the president and the nation, the SEALs got their target -- the most wanted terrorist in the world since orchestrating the attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Still, the possibility of failure was also on Obama’s mind.
He told Kroft, “You think about Black Hawk Down. You think about what happened with the Iranian rescue. And I am very sympathetic to the situation for other presidents where you make a decision, you're making your best call, your best shot, and something goes wrong.”
He called the 40 minutes of the actual operation “the longest 40 minutes of my life, with the possible exception of when [daughter] Sasha got meningitis."
Asked by Kroft about those who questioned if bin Laden was actually eliminated, Obama asserted “There is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden,” then repeated his earlier assertion that photographic evidence demanded by skeptics would only serve to inflame bin Laden loyalists in the Islamic world.
One question that won’t go away anytime soon is if bin Laden was shielded by sympathetic Pakistanis, given that he lived in the million dollar-compound for as long as six years, just a short drive from the capital of Islamabad and very near the country’s top military academy
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En un debate televisado, el democrata Andrew Cuomo, y el republicano Carlos Paladino fueron eclipsados por un candidato marginal bigote negro con guantes y una serie de incongruencias
Ayer por la noche de Nueva York el debate a la gobernacion, que se espera un enfrentamiento entre el democrata Andrew Cuomo y controvertido candidato republicano Carlos Paladino, fue dominado en lugar de Jimmy McMillan, el lider primorosamente bigotudo de la "renta es 2 Maldita sea alta" del partido.
Vestido con un par de guantes de negro, disparo varias veces McMillan no incongruencias ("Si quieres casarte con un zapato, me casare contigo", dijo en referencia al matrimonio gay) y hablo de si mismo en tercera persona.
Del deficit record de Nueva York, dijo: "Es como un cancer Sera curarse a si mismo.." McMillan no era el unico candidato a comportarse extranamente. Kristin Davis, una ex prostituta, hizo varias bromas sobre los burdeles, y Paladino abandono el escenario durante los alegatos finales, al parecer en busca de la habitacion de los hombres.
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Just last Sunday in the October 10, 2010 New York Times, two very lengthy features appeared on the rancid Ann Coulter and the blogger Pamela Geller grotesque anti-Semite against Arabs who flaunts her sweeping bigotry as a badge of pride. Geller even called herself a racist-Islamophobic-anti-Muslim-bigot. One veteran reporter called the sprawling two page feature, with all of twenty color photos an advertisement.”
The Times called her a conservative,” besmirching conservatives instead of what she really is a burlesque performer throwing red meat to audiences looking for off-the-wall entertainment. Coulter even denounced the New Jersey 9/11 widows as exploiting their husbands’ deaths for enjoyment.
One of the editors at the New Yorker wondered what is happening to the Times sense of featureworthiness. I replied that no one on the seriously important Left gets this kind of promotional treatment, no matter how flamboyantly personal they may be.
If there are counterparts, calling themselves leftists, who compare with Coulter and Geller, no one knows their names because they don’t have the Times, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck to promote them via the mass media.
National and local talk radio, using our public airwaves free of charge, is dominated by extreme ranting rightwing soliloquists who often pull the plug on the few callers who get by the screeners. Cable political TV, apart from MSNBC (which fired Phil Donahue in 2003 for presenting both sides of Bush’s fabricated drive to invade Iraq) is a race between the wildly hysterical Beck-types and Bill o
