“I wonder why we announced the raid so soon after it happened. That seemed a mistake to me.”

Me too. I would have kept the lid on and started sending out orders in Obama’s ..whoops, Osama’s name. I’m not POTUS however and if I was, Unemployment would be around 4%, Gas under 2.00$US and I wouldn’t need a cheap trick to get a 30 day bounce in the polls.

The problem with the McCrystal approach is the it is very specific and cannot be applied to warfare on a general level. Information warfare WILL NOT stop 60,000 Soviet MBT’s from driving to the Atlantic. It will NOT stop the Duck of Death from killing Libyan goat herders. It will not stop Assad from slaughtering thousands of his own citizens. No, McCrystals form of warfare is like the Craftsman Universal tool. It looks neat but all it really does is lighten the wallet.
Liberals love it because they think it’s non-kinetic. Remember ALL the portals into the AQ net came because of vicious, bloody kinetic events. People were killed, wounded, captured and tortured to gain access to the AQ net.
Event now, the Left denies that the data which led to OBL came out of torture.
Waterboarding AKA the Chinese Water Torture. The Right denies that it is torture, the left that it works. Those in the center applaud it’s results while feeling queasy about it’s existence.