I had writen this for another site, not known for scholarly news…
Like most politicians, Obama has never held a real job, never served in uniform and never heard the sound of supersonic machine gun rounds CRACKing by him. If discovered, SOF guys and spooks [intelligence personnel] are generally tortured to death to learn what they know , so you can image that they avoid being used in the media (dangerous in their profession) to gain some politician a few percentage points in the polls. Hate the wars or not, that is your decision, but this is real world. It is not TV and most politicians and media simply do not care who they kill as long as they look good on that talking box.
I had writen this for another site, not known for scholarly news…
Like most politicians, Obama has never held a real job, never served in uniform and never heard the sound of supersonic machine gun rounds CRACKing by him. If discovered, SOF guys and spooks [intelligence personnel] are generally tortured to death to learn what they know , so you can image that they avoid being used in the media (dangerous in their profession) to gain some politician a few percentage points in the polls. Hate the wars or not, that is your decision, but this is real world. It is not TV and most politicians and media simply do not care who they kill as long as they look good on that talking box.