Blogs For Victory

From ABC:

…in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj al-Libi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida’s operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden’s personal courier.

“Hassan Ghul was the linchpin,” a U.S. official said…

…The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA’s so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.

“We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day,” said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden…

And Ghul was captured, where? Yes, it was in Iraq…in Iraq, the place liberals said we were never supposed to go, where we found the key link in the chain which eventually led to bin Laden’s.

The bottom line is that it took the whole process – the whole of nearly ten years to get to the bottom of this and get bin Laden. Now, the one thing we can’t ever take away from President Obama is that he gave the order for the final operation – he’ll always have that to his credit. But to try and pretend that Obama came along and turned defeat in to victory is just plain and simple absurd – stupidly absurd. In other words, the sort of thing only the most rank, ignorant and partisan of liberals could possibly think.

We never were and never will be engaged in a war against one man – or even one terrorist organization. We fight against a wicked ideology – Islamo-fascism being the best name for this. Bin Laden was a leader of these sorts of people and groups, but he was never supreme, nor was he ever alone. And he gained his ability not out of his own head, but out of the socio-political realities of the Moslem world. A hopelessly dysfunctional society slipping day by day further in to barbarism. Unless we cure that – and the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are the only sure ways we’ve seen to do this – then the war will both go on, and could eventually be lost by us.

Celebrate that our soldiers did their duty. Be content that justice was done to Osama bin Laden. But don’t confuse yourself and don’t fall for a simple narrative of what happened, or what needs to be done.

UPDATE: Obama’s Heroics – from Top of the Ticket:

…According to early reports of the incident, detailed here in The Ticket, 24 SEALs rappelled down ropes from hovering Chinooks in post-midnight darkness Monday Pakistan time with Osama security forces shooting at them. Brennan didn’t have much time to go into all that today, the goal is to elevate the ex-state senator to at least a one-star commander-in-chief…