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Its units include Army Rangers, Delta Force, and Green Berets, Navy SEALS, Air Force Air Commandos, Marine Corps Special Operations teams, specialized helicopter crews, boat crews, civil affairs personnel, para-rescuemen, battlefield air traffic controllers, and Special Operations weathermen.
Their covert missions involve targeted assassinations, counterterrorism, snatch-and-grab-kidnapping, reconnaissance, intelligence, directing and training foreign forces, as well as any mission requiring special skills. They also participate in interrogating high-value targets in secret black site torture prisons.
Former commander Adm. Eric Olson calls SOCOM forces "the most culturally attuned partners, the most lethal hunter-killers, and the most responsive, agile, innovative, and efficiently effective advisors, trainers, problem-solvers, and warriors that any nation has to offer."
If America had more diplomats than combatants, humanity would be safe from their scourge, including SOCOM's "hunter-killers."
Middle East Saber Rattling
On October 11, the Department of Justice charged Iranian involvement in a fake terror plot to kill Saudi Arabia's US ambassador, blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Argentina, and smuggle opium into Mexico.
Charges were brazen, fabricated and laughable on their face. Responding perhaps to rage across America against corporate power, government corruption, and Main Street hard times, Obama, Vice President Biden and Attorney General Holder changed the subject.
In the process, they became laughing stocks, outdoing Larry, Moe and Curley Three Stooges tomfoolery. More serious, however, is what comes next.
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