President Obama is NOT Pres. Carter, and this is not April 1980!

[robfilms]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Carter's failure with this raid was a triumph of Murphy's law. Anything that could go wrong did, and not everything that went wrong was predictable or preventable. Such operations have little latitude for bad fortune no matter how much planning is involved. A little more "luck" and Carter would have been a hero.

One more broken helicopter, and Obama might have been the goat.

So true. As one article I read put it, a failure could have destroyed his presidency. There is always great risk when attempting something like this.
and that is why we are fortunate that this president knows how to make bold decisions relying upon a team that can get it done.