Raid in Yemen: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End

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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.html

[Wingnut]

The forum software is complete garbage IMO.

Or it could be that Tandy1000/TI 994A type notepad you are using?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Or it could be that Tandy1000/TI 994A type notepad you are using?

Am I the only person who has problems cut and pasting the forum corrupting the formatting?

[Frank Cannon]

Am I the only person who has problems cut and pasting the forum corrupting the formatting?

It appears so....

Mama's Pound Cake

1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/mamas-pound-cake-recipe.html?oc=linkback

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/mamas-pound-cake-recipe.html?oc=linkback

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Guys, if you think the SEALS are going to just drop in somewhere based on Trump and not do their own homework, you're NUTS.
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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Maybe it was a browser issue, Firefox seems better.

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   Took me less than 2 minutes using Win 7 and IE11 @Weird Tolkienish Figure


Raid in Yemen: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End

Officials, including Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, left Washington for Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday to meet the family of an American commando killed in Yemen.

By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER

February 1, 2017


WASHINGTON — Just five days after taking office, over dinner with his newly installed secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Trump was presented with the first of what will be many life-or-death decisions: whether to approve a commando raid that risked the lives of American Special Operations forces and foreign civilians alike.

President Barack Obama’s national security aides had reviewed the plans for a risky attack on a small, heavily guarded brick home of a senior Qaeda collaborator in a mountainous village in a remote part of central Yemen. But Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended.

With two of his closest advisers, Jared Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon, joining the dinner at the White House along with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Mr. Trump approved sending in the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, hoping the raid early last Sunday would scoop up cellphones and laptop computers that could yield valuable clues about one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups. Vice President Mike Pence and Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, also attended the dinner.

As it turned out, almost everything that could go wrong did. And on Wednesday, Mr. Trump flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to be present as the body of the American commando killed in the raid was returned home, the first military death on the new commander in chief’s watch.

The death of Chief Petty Officer William Owens came after a chain of mishaps and misjudgments that plunged the elite commandos into a ferocious 50-minute firefight that also left three others wounded and a $75 million aircraft deliberately destroyed. There are allegations — which the Pentagon acknowledged on Wednesday night are most likely correct — that the mission also killed several civilians, including some children. The dead include, by the account of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Qaeda leader who was killed in a targeted drone strike in 2011.

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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.html

[Rivergirl]

Risky???

But but our CinC jumped right out to brag on the SUCCESS of the mission.  This in the face of the loss of one of our military personnel.

Add that to the order to BAN people from Iraq and you have our military heroes wondering what will happen to the Iraqi interpreters currently helping and if anyone will be willing to help in the future.

PRAY