The Military side of this operation was well planned and various possible disaster scenarios obviously taken into account.

The Political and Public Relations side however is a complete disaster.

1) He was shot dead in a firefight hiding behind his wife who was also killed
Shortly after we are told he was unarmed and his wife was only shot in the leg

2) We are told – and shown pictures – that the US Senior Administration watched to operation on Video in real-time
Now we are told there was a significant blackout in the Video coverage – 25 minutes according to some reports.

3) After the operation the President spends days agonising over whether ‘photos of the body should be shown to the public – this should have been carefully considered and a firm decision taken before the Operation.

4) Various Administration and other figures come out to tell us how a “gutsy” President spent many hours considering whether to authorise the Operation – in case the man was not there, or worse, the Operation failed in similar fashion to the attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages.

This was a long term, carefully planned Mission to remove the most wanted – and hated – man in the world, the only thing this “gutsy” President was worried about was the affect any such situation would have on him and his political future.

There’s nothing at all “gutsy” about that.

Patrick