Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: jai6638
Originally posted by: freegeeks
Originally posted by: cirrrocco
Originally posted by: freegeeks
Their elite commando units look like regular infantry units.
I'm sure that these units are doing everything to get the situation under control but they just look totally unprepared.
did you want them to look like overdressed US teams. They carried the essentials, NVG, Rifle, backup pistol, Grenades and freq hopping comm equipment.What else is needed????
I'm pretty sure those overdressed US teams you are talking about would not have needed 3 days to neutralize a bunch of terrorists
The US force, being the "superior military force" that it is, couldn't even find one man, Bin Laden! Most of his accomplices haven't been found either so stop pointing fingers.
There is no comparison with the search for Bin Laden and the suppression of these attacks. The lack of highly trained special forces/swat is readily apparent. Had something like this gone on for 3+ days in the US the government would be strung up by its collective testicles, especially considering how much we spend on police/defense.
I have to agree with you on this. My heart goes out to the victims (of all nationalities) of this brutal massacre. While I can imagine the difficulty in searching a tremendous hotel room by room for a small number of terrorist "pigs" as they were called earlier, finding a single man in over a huge, remote, desolate geographic area is a whole other story.
That being said, we should stop these recriminations and statements of "if this happened in America it wouldn't have taken 3 days to stop them." While I do agree that US Special Forces are among the finest in the world, it is always easier to be an armchair quarterback. This would have been a challenging situation for any force.
What we need now is to join in solidarity with the free democracies of the world to fight these terrorist enemies of civilization.