I was on the road to an event I was invited to when Mad Max called be and asked if I had seen this article. I couldn’t wait to get to where I was going and take a look at this. I wonder if Obama has read it? I doubt I’ll find anyone who will hold their breath on that bet.
PS. I read Kill Bin Laden and was blown away. Actually, I think it is about time to read it again.
- StoneWolf
Posted on http://www.worldpress.org
Waiting for his Commander-in-Chief to speak, a West Point military academy cadet had some blunt strategic advice this week: “Kill Bin Laden”.
The title of his book captures in three words the one easily-defined goal that has eluded US forces in eight years of conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He was indentified this evening as Konrad Bunde, a freshman or first year cadet, belonging to Company A3.
His choice of reading material was hailed on conservative websites in the US as a rebuke to President Obama’s circumscribed new strategy for Afghanistan, which does not specifically target bin Laden and makes no mention of the word “victory”.
The picture was taken in the academy’s Eisenhower auditorium an hour and a half before Mr Obama took the podium there for his address to the nation on Tuesday night. For security reasons, cadets were seated four hours before the speech and many brought reading and study material, an academy spokesman said.
A Times analysis of the badges on the cadet’s chest shows that he is a “prior service” student at the academy, recommended for a place there after active service in Iraq. He is an Army Ranger who has earned an Iraq Campaign Medal and six other awards including an Army Commendation Medal, an Army Good Conduct Medal, a National Defense Service Medal and a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.
Kill bin Laden is a delta force commander’s insider account of the Tora Bora battle, and his squad’s mission to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Dalton Fury is the pseudonym for a retired Army major who led a team of elite commandos.
In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes, the writer spoke of how close the team came to killing bin Laden, and how his plans for the final push to bin Laden’s lair were called off by his superiors back in the United States.
