Fox News’ Kilmeade slams Navy SEALs for aborting mission instead of killing children

[kpete]

According to NBC News, the plan to capture an Al-Shabaab warlord named Ikrima went awry when an enemy fighter spotted Seal Team 6 members and started a firefight. The SEALs soon recognized that children who were in the compound would die if the raid went forward so they aborted the mission.

“I think a lot of people thought that was — and it is — an incredible act of just honor for life, especially the little ones,” Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted on Tuesday.


But Kilmeade saw things another way.

“This is something to keep in mind,” he said. “Nobody wants children hurt. However, this is the guy that put a group together to take down a Kenyan shopping mall in an upper class neighborhood where those kids were tortured before they were killed. So if this guy’s next operation kills children of ours or kills innocent children in a neighboring country that happen to not be Islamic extremists, did we make the right decision?”

“Well, the Navy SEALs made the determination,” co-host Steve Doocy pointed out. “They looked in the scope, they saw the guy, but they saw the kids. And apparently the firefight was so hot, they just said, you know, we’re going to have to leave.”

- See more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/08/fox-news-kilmeade-slams-navy-seals-for-aborting-mission-instead-of-killing-children/

[Junkdrawer]

1. "in an upper class neighborhood where those kids were tortured"....

That he would have that double standard is one thing...that he assumes his AUDIENCE would also have the double standard is another.

[Half-Century Man]

2. Spoken like a true chickenhawk

Area saturation fire has consequences. Killing children has consequences. Covert operations in 3d world countries to decapitate suspected terrorists without international support has consequences; doing it badly has far greater consequences (and I mean that as suspected location, ranking, and presence of the selected targets).

Turning a planned surgical strike to forever blunt their organization into their greatest recruiting drive is counterproductive.




I have thought for awhile Mr. Kilmeade might be the dumbest person on morning tv.

[msanthrope]

3. I think Kilmeade ought to lead the next raid. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. How come when Kilmeade's name is mentioned, it is always in connection with some dumbass statement?

How come we never hear, "Brian Kilmeade discovers cure for cancer" or "Brian Kilmeade negotiates peace in the Middle East"?

[City Lights]

5. Walk the walk, Kilmeade!

Sign up for active duty today. Uncle Same needs you!