Last week, Col. David Hunt, a Fox News contributor, wrote a piece for them entitled America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't. Astonishingly, while he was talking about the area around Tora Bora, he didn't mean the incident with which we are all familiar from 2001. He is talking about August 2007!
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it.
Col. Hunt does not explain why they didn't take him out. Maybe he doesn't know. I'm sure the Bush administration doesn't feel as though it owes us a reason. After all, we are only the ones who are providing the soldiers and the money for their operations/retirement plans. Were they afraid there would be an even louder clamor for us to pull out of Iraq since the center of operations is obviously still in Afghanistan?
How have the members of the administration avoided being tarred and feathered and run out of town? Never mind, I know. Tar and feathers have been taken off the table.