Barack Obama’s attraction to unconventional operations has perhaps only been rivaled by John F. Kennedy. But plans for a floating base have their limits.
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Of course there is a cost to using Special Forces. But if you're not going to use them to get bin Laden, why even have them in the first place? This was a case where the risk of letting t...
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