Announcing we are about to strike al Qaeda just sounds like pre-debate spin for our president:
The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya.
Militants are a target-rich environment. As I've noted, this isn't CSI: Benghazi. We don't need to figure out which specific jihadis killed our diplomatic personnel to dish out some death to deserving jihadis.
Any dead jihadi will do. If they haven't done something already to deserve death, they will if left alive.
And we could have simply struck jihadis without speaking so loudly, any time in the last 5 weeks.
But we didn't do that. In more time that it took for us to mount an invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, we have leapt into action to put our forces on standby.
"Standby." Whoa, nelly, let's not be hasty.
President Obama killed Osama bin Laden? In his Walter Mitty dreams, he did.
