"...Following the raid, the Obama Administration was desperate to tout its foreign policy success in the run up to the 2012 Presidential election.
In the process of this incessant backslapping, critical sources and methods were revealed to the press.
Due to this, heroic Pakistanis who risked everything to ensure Bin Laden’s location was forwarded to the United States were inadvertently revealed to the vengeful Pakistani authorities. These brave souls now languish hopelessly in a horrific Pakistani prison.
The Obama Administration’s loose lips sent a signal to anyone seeking to help the United States: you will be exposed and possibly arrested or killed for your trouble.
...The Bin Laden Raid worsened America’s strategic position on all three counts.
That is the true legacy of the Obama Administration’s Raid in Abbottabad.
We must never forget this sad fact.
And we must never lose sight of American strategic interests again.
The costs are too high."
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