Real heros don’t like to be called “hero”. They look at what they’ve done with the attitude of “just doing my job” and sometimes have a hard time even accepting thanks for their actions for which many of us are thankful. After all, they reason, we signed up to do what we do – we simply do what we said we’d do. Even still, I will often thank a veteran for their service (or a family member who has (or had) someone in our Armed Forces as well) – it is deserved. Yet, when people thank me for the service of the Eldest and the Youngest, I feel embarrassed to a degree in that I have done nothing – they are the ones that risked themselves for us all.
President Obama, that is a lesson you have not yet learned – to put away the “I” and “Me” and “My” words:
Instead, you should have been overusing the words “those heros” or “our heros” and give credit where credit was REALLY due – but you didn’t. You have taken credit, major credit, for making the decision and for the success of the raid that ended up with OBL dead. Well, thanks for saying “Go” – but that should have been viewed as just part of your job, too. You risked nothing, except a political standing. The SEALS and the air crews – they risked it all for their nation and for meting out justice to one who justice was delayed for far too long.
That political standing? No hero there, sport. “Suppose the Navy SEALS had gone in there, suppose they ha been captured or killed? The downside would have been horrible for him” – the words of President Clinton on what the aftermath might have been like for President Clinton if the raid had gone badly. Really? Hardly – most of us already think that Jimmah Cartah is a best case scenario for the current Occupier of the Oval Office. But what about those that struggled for years to obtain the information – those that will never be known (and maybe, in some cases, never knew the outcome of their sacrifices)? And what about those on the raid? And the “political set up” in which if the raid had gone bad that would have placed the blame on that 3 star Admiral William McRaven (and former SEAL himself)? Was that a mark of “political heroics”? No, that in itself was political cowardice – a grand show of not willing to take blame as Commander-in-Chief.
No, Obama, you’re no hero – that’s a title that is not just handed out; you have to EARN that title.