According to a (pay walled) report in the London Sunday Times by Toby Harden, Hostage rescue raid came too late: The president waited nearly a month before giving the go-ahead for a daring bid to free western hostages including James Foley Writing for Breitbart, Dan Riehl gives us the gist: It's claimed that Obama was concerned about his administration being Carterized had the mission failed.  For President Barack Obama the decision to send in the Night Stalkers was an agonising one. The audacious bin Laden raid in Pakistan had been a success but also preying on his mind was the failed 1980 Delta Force operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran. Sandstorms and mechanical troubles led the mission to be abandoned and eight American troops were killed when two aircraft collided. The debacle cast a shadow over Jimmy Carter’s presidency. (snip) Anthony Shaffer, a former lieutenant-colonel in US military intelligence who worked on...(Read Full Post)