Some of have to deal with living in Literalville.  We cannot change many things we see although we wish we could.  This looks like ANOTHER bad move such as the one done by Eisenhower attempting to rescue French forces with 500 Marines when the French were surrounded by THOUSANDS of enemy somewhere.

The exchange starts off innocently enough...

Retired General Lt. Gen. James Vaught, on February 1, 2012
was upset with Special Operations Commander Adm. Bill McRaven, the commander of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden for pulling a lot of media notice to special operations that he assailed should be kept out of that white-hot spotlight.
Retired Lt. Gen. James Vaught stated that he didn't fathom why the recent raids by the Navy SEALs, like that which took out Osama bin Laden (or at least the latest doppleganger look-alike) or to rescue U.S. hostage Jessica Buchanan, were big news in the lame stream media making a lot of DAs or unintelligent orfices in the media prevy to confidential information.
"Since the time when your wonderful team went and drug bin Laden out and got rid of him, and more recently when you went down and rescued the group in Somalia, or wherever the hell they were, they've been splashing all of this all over the media," Vaught, 85, stated. "I flat don't understand that.
"Now back when my special operators extracted Saddamizin' (Hussein) from the hole, we didn't say one damn word about it," Vaught added. "We turned him over to the local commander and told him to claim that his forces drug him out of the hole, and he did so. And we just faded away and kept our mouth shut.
"Now I'm going to tell you, one of these days, if you keep publishing how you do this, the other guy's going to be there ready for you, and you're going to fly in and he's going to shoot down every damn helicopter and kill every one of your SEALs. Now, watch it happen. Mark my words. Get the hell out of the media," Vaught finished with gusto, as laughter at his folksiness skittered out and about at a meeting of the National Defense Industrial Association in Washington, D.C.
In 1979, General Lt. Gen. James Vaught commanded the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Eight service members died and four were injured in "Operation Eagle Claw" when the helicopters on the mission bumped together in midair in the remote Iranian desert. Vaught,  chosen to be the first commander of Delta Force, was not on active duty at the time of the Saddamizin' Hussein raid, which was also conducted by the Delta Force, the top secret counterterrorism unit.
McRaven quipped in a humerous fashion that the reason why he became a Navy SEAL was because his sister was dating a special forces member and because he was a big fan of John Wayne's movie, "The Green Beret."
"The fact of the matter is, there have always been portrayals of SOF (Special Operations Forces) out in the mainstream media," he stated. "We are in an environment today where we can't get away from it. It is not something that we actively pursue, as I think a number of the journalists here in the audience will confirm. But the fact of the matter is, with the social media being what it is today, with the press and the 24-hour news cycle, it's very difficult to get away from it."
He voiced that it was difficult to avoid media coverage in today's 24-hour news cycle and that it could actually help Navy SEALs improve on job efficiency.
"We have had a few failures. And I think having those failures exposed in the media also kind of helps focus our attention, helps us do a better job. So sometimes the criticism … the spotlight on us actually makes us better," McRaven stated.
The Navy SEALs have received much media attention in 2011 due to the bin Laden raid and the rescue in Somalia. A movie titled "Act for Valor" which highlights the elite special operations force is being released in March,2012 and Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is filming a movie about the raid that killed the world's most wanted (dead) man('s heroic to Muslims image).
McRaven was in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 1, 2012,  talking about an enlargement of the role of special operations forces in Afghanistan. Special operations troops, McRaven stated, would likely be the final troops to evacuate the Afghanistan and the Pentagon is even analizing the possibility of a new special operations command, but that decision has not been made yet.
"I have no doubt that special operations will be the last to leave Afghanistan," McRaven said. "As far as anything beyond that, we're exploring a lot of options."

Leaving a few hundred troops behind LOOKS like a really STUPID option, unless one was a Commander-In-Chief wanting to get troops slaughtered by being hopelessly outnumbered.  People wonder if the Taliban was not aided and abbetted by Russians seeking revenge because America armed the Afghans to fight Russian invaders...

Out POTUS would just GRIN...when he got alone again...he's THAT kind of a guy...