It really does reek of a set up
Sending SEALs into a camp inhabited by women and children, where at least some of the women had weapons training? And are known to use their children as shields?
Who would have thought that was low risk for Mattis and Trump’s first military engagement?
Otherwise, the intelligence value of what they were after had to be high value and time sensitive and worth the near certainty of killing women and children face-to-face.
Hopefully we’ll never know
and whoever is talking now should be tracked down and shut up.
We know so little about this that it is impossible to evaluate.
We do know that many internal and external enemies work hard to discredit anything done by the U.S. military.
We had better get used to killing women and children.
Islamists use them as combatants and bombers all the time.