I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes, but I stumbled on last Sunday’s episode, which covered two topics of interest to me — the Tesla electric roadster and Delta Force operations in Afghanistan.
The Delta Force segment featured a disguised former operative going by the name of Dalton Fury, who has written a book — Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man — about how “politics” got in the way of Delta operations.
(Apparently, Dalton Fury’s real name is Maj. Thomas Greer.)
He explains how his plan to kill bin Laden was rejected, because it involved attacking from Pakistan and laying land mines along the passes between the two countries:
He also complains about being paired up with totally unreliable Afghan “allies” — which is frustrating to hear about, because the region has a long, long history of local tribal warlords playing powers off against each other, and you would think that the people making high-level decisions would know such things.