Do you think conservatives wanted a Blackhawk Down incident off the coast of Somalia?

[bluestateguy]

After all, they have pretty openly said that they want Obama to fail. If that's the case, then they may have been rooting for a 1993-style Blackhawk Down incident in this pirate situation. That would have been failure, you know.

Oh how they would have loved to have shamelessly shown the video of dead or wounded US troops on the loop-da-loop on FOX, and proclaim Obama's presidency "over" and a "failure".

But I guess they don't get to do that.

When you root for Obama to fail, you are kind of rooting for America to fail.

[Spazito]

1. I have NO doubt in my mind they were hoping for something like that...

No doubt at all.

[Trajan]

2. They hate Obama and want him to fail .....

They hate America and want it to fail ....

[CTyankee]

3. Of course they did! They LOVE to dredge up that Blackhawk deal.

I'm sure they were ready with their little think pieces about the "similarities" between the two and how awful that was to our national pride and image...blah, blah, blah.

I am certain that there are lots of RWingers crying in their beer right about now...

[Demeter]

4. I Doubt That the GOP is Doing Much More Than Cowering With a Blanky

and if there are conservatives not under the GOP label, then they probably could have arranged a failure if they wanted to.

I think the fascists are betting on the economic crash to take care of things--while frantically trying to convert their worthless paper "assets" into tangible wealth. Preferably out of the country.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. Reason number three thousand one hundred and sixty seven...

of why I hate these people.

[Uzybone]

6. Thier ideal outcome would have been the body of Capt Phillips dragged

through the streets. We would be naive to think that they were not hoping for the very worst.

[cliffordu]

7. I wouldn't be surprised.

[Hanse]

8. That, or some kind of Branch Davidian thing...

wherein they somehow make the pirates look sympathetic.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. No. I don't.

[mitchtv]

10. yes

Sounds about right

[ms liberty]

11. It's exactly what they wanted...

A success would prove their "democrats are wussies" meme to be nothing but bullshit. The chest thumping, macho warrior costume is one of their favorites, ya know.