Pamela Geller, American Thinker Book Review:
Before Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17

Please check out my book review (something I rarely do given my time constraints) of the bombshell book, Betrayed: Exposing the High Cost of the War on Terror. It's the lede article over at The Thinker.
Get the book here now.

Before Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17

Pamela Geller

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Karen and Billy Vaughn are the parents of a fallen Navy Seal, Aaron Carson Vaughn. I met with the Vaughns when
I spoke to a sold-out Tea Party event in Fort Lauderdale in June. The
Vaughns are extraordinary heroes. Their courage to speak about Obama's
crippling rules of engagement is to be applauded.

The
Vaughns have exposed the delusional U.S. military "rules of engagement"
policy that led to the takedown of a Chinook helicopter, Extortion 17,
by the Taliban. All 38 people on board the Chinook — 15 SEAL Team Six
members (including Aaron Vaughn) and seven Afghan National Army
commandos — were killed. The attack on Extortion 17 came just three
months after the Osama bin Laden kill, and both Obama and Biden had
identified the team that took OBL out. Retribution was inevitable.

The Vaughns were also one of the families that released the video that revealed the incredible fact that military brass invited a Muslim cleric to their children's funeral in 2011 – an imam who "damned to hell"our fallen soldiers, in line with Islamic doctrine for infidels. Videohere.

Now Billy Vaughn and U.S. Army Major General (ret.) Paul Vallely have teamed up to write a shocking new book: Betrayed: Exposing the High Cost of the War on Terror
(coming in August from Hugo House Publishers). It tells the story of
how on August 6, 2011, Taliban jihadists ambushed Extortion 17 as it was
transporting American forces to an area where Army Rangers were engaged
in a firefight.

Betrayed
is an accurate account of events, but it is not some dry recounting
from a military operation logbook; instead, it's as engrossing as any
novel. The first part centers on Billy Vaughn as he tries to find out —
against immense obstacles — what really caused the tragic death of his
son. Obama's bureaucrats put up heavy resistance, but Billy Vaughn was
determined. Then in the second part of the book, Major General Vallely
analyzes the mission of Extortion 17, using his decades of military
experience to point out the many errors and mistakes of this mission —
all due to Obama's impossible Rules of Engagement for American troops in
Afghanistan.

That's not all. Vaughan and Vallely show
that this was more than just a matter of mission failure. As they
search for the facts and demand answers from recalcitrant government
time-servers, they discover that the poor planning and execution of
Extortion 17's mission can be traced directly to the failed political
and military strategy that the Obama Administration and senior military leaders continue to pursue in Afghanistan.

The
fault lies with the Counter-Insurgency (COIN) doctrine, which both Bush
and Obama have clung to despite massive evidence of its failure. The
U.S. government is more concerned with appeasing Muslims both in America
and in Muslim countries than in defending Americans against the global
jihad. Obama even refuses to name the enemy. Meanwhile, his disastrous
Rules of Engagement place our troops — like Aaron Vaughn — in
unnecessary danger, and have cost countless American lives. When
Extortion 17 was fired on, it wasn't allowed to fire back — because of
the Rules of Engagement.

Read the whole thing.

 

 

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Judi

10 years ago

Tom Trento is interviewing the Vaughans tonite on his show Trentovision.tv at 5pm (E)

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