Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

The opportunity to politicize the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates was one Barack Obama could not resist.
Obama’s handlers played the crisis for every ounce of P.R. they could generate. We heard a “quietly confident Obama” twice “gave the order to shoot if necessary.”
Yet when Phillips first jumped from the lifeboat he was being held in, nothing happened. No one saved him, and the pirates merely scooped him up and returned him to their “ship.” Our Navy Seals were on the scene ready to act, yet at first they did nothing.

Why the Seal commander didn’t act is THE important question of the whole affair.

Was it because the Commander- in -Chief was playing the “Lawyer- in- Chief?”
The truth seems to be Obama dithered and consulted lawyers before he acted so “decisively” and “signed off.”

Was the Seals hesitation caused by Obama’s confusing “signing off” on the operation?”
Obama’s nomination of Harold Koh as State Department Legal Advisor provides an answer. Koh firmly supports the International Criminal Court. This suggests Obama intends to dump the American Service Members’ Protection Act and put our war fighters under the control of leftist lawyers eager to please the anti American ICC.

If Obama had the wellbeing and safety of our military in mind he would not have “signed off” or “not signed off” on this operation. His hands on involvement in a military operation, opens the door to lawyers controlling combat operations.

When lawyers not commanders run combat operations America is in trouble.
This will likely lead to arrests of war fighters for “not having proper authorization” after having killed enemy combatants.
As sure as night follows day Obama has put our military in danger of indictment, prosecution and imprisonment by a kangaroo court of European American haters.
There is no room for second guessing in combat. We have seen the Left use “rules of engagement” to hobble our war fighters and twist their valiant efforts into political circuses. This may now become the norm.
This is a serious situation. Lawyers running combat will get our war fighters killed and imprisoned for doing the job of protecting us.
Once this starts how long will we continue to get these brave men and women to step forward?
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