Joe Biden On Bin Laden Raid: "You Can Go Back 500 Years. You Cannot Find A More Audacious Plan"

In Sheriff Joe's defense, he is an idiot.

“You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. Never knowing for certain. We never had more than a 48 percent probability that he was there.”

This became a thing on Twitter last night as a number of other plans seem somewhat more audacious....the Normandy invasion, Sherman's march through Georgia, Washington crossing the Delaware, Washington's retreat from Brooklyn, Entebee, the Son Tay raid, hell using special forces guys on horses who used radios and GPS to overthrow the Taliban was pretty audacious.

None of this is to diminish the courage and skill that went into the bin Laden raid but the fact is special forces have been doing that sort of thing for over a decade. That relentless pace and effectiveness is the real story more than one particular raid.

Of course the most offensive part of Biden's formulation isn't his historical illiteracy, that's to be expected. What's truly offensive is that in his little mind, the "audacious" part is the plan and Obama's role in it. Yes, it was a call for which he deserves credit but the real heroes are the men who suited up and carried it out. They are the ones who will be immortalized in 500 years, not some empty suit watching them on TV.

[Update - Andy] From sheriff joe in the comments, this is one of my favorites ...

He's a legend in his own mind.

posted by DrewM. at 09:47 AM

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