From what I can gather, the president’s involvement was to give the order that “if the captain’s life is in imminent danger, attack.”

This paragraph illustrates how neutered the navy of the world’s last superpower has become:

It was about midnight on the ocean, Thursday turning to Friday, when Phillips made a break for it.

He jumped out of the lifeboat and began to swim for his life. One of the captors fired an automatic weapon – perhaps at Phillips, perhaps only as a warning, either way enough to show that the pirates meant business. Phillips swam back to the lifeboat.

The USS Bainbridge was still several hundred yards away from the lifeboat – not nearly close enough to save him on his escape attempt. But the sailors on board were close enough to see that, back in the lifeboat, Phillips was moving around and talking.

The proper response at seeing that the captain had escaped would have been a barrage from its Phalanx, a Tomahawk, or one shot from its 5″ gun. It should have never come to needing highly trained special forces shooting in the dark on a rolling sea.

In other words, there were Navy SEAL snipers waiting on his say-so to shoot the pirates when there was an opportunity. Isn’t he just such a dreamy hero?

Do you suppose that Chief Little Big Man is TRYING to look like Dhimmy Carter and send out a message of weakness in order to INVITE some sort of attack on our country. Sounds too horrible to believe, I know.

But remember when Clinton right after 9-11 carelessly blurted out jealousy that Bush had an opportunity to look good that Clinton never had during his term?

More importantly, recall all of those Leftists who went around screaming that Bush had advanced knowledge of 9-11 and perhaps was even complicit in it so that he could use the War on Terror as a pretext for a massive power grab and establish a dictatorship?

Of course, all of that was totally BIZARRE. The notion of the appeasing, self-sacrificial Bush as dictator is laughable. He allowed the Left to walk all over him – dictators do not do that.

The Left’s conspiracy theories were certainly NOT backed up by any facts of reality. So, if reality was not the source for their conspiracies, what was? How about PROJECTION – i.e., what THEY would do if THEY were in power and in Bush’s position?

If their attacks on Bush were, indeed, a projection of what they would do – well, that is frightening now that they are in power. We have ALREADY had a massive power grab under the pretext of the economic situation. Would Little Big Man use a foreign policy “crisis” for an even further power grab – and will the horrors of another attack be enough to scare the public into going along with it? Perhaps he DOES know the lessons of Dhimmy Carter and Neville Chamberlain and the consequences of foreign policy weakness and that is why he is trying to act like Carter.

Again, I have my tin-foil hat on when I ask these questions. But they are interesting questions. Hopefully Chief Little Big Man really IS nothing more than a Dhimmy Carter with better enunciation.

And, thanks for the link.