If Trump and his national security
team are indeed going to make a major push to kill or capture high value
targets around the globe using commandos as a way of drastically increasing the
clarity of America’s intelligence picture, it will not go without major
resistance at home and abroad. Americans are sick of hearing about KIAs after a
decade and a half of perpetual warfare, and many at home and around the globe
dread a return to the “optics” of the counter-terrorism realities of the Bush
years. At the same time, a change in tactics could drastically increase the
Pentagon and the CIA’s chances of dealing out crescendos of crippling blows to
the enemy and eradicating some formal terror networks once and for all.
KIA=killed in action
one said to have been killed in latest raid in Yemen--also 8 year old girl, daughter of Anwar Al Waliki (sp?)
