Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence

[xoxoxoBruce]

It doesn't, I did. That's what they are, but I'd hardly expect that to be their official title. Politically incorrect, you know.

General Brown and the Special Operations Command now work according to a concept that has become the newest Pentagon catchphrase: "find, fix, finish and follow-up" — shorthand for locating terrorist leaders, tracking them precisely, capturing or killing them, and then using the information gathered to plan another operation.

"The military is great at fixing enemies, and finishing them off, and exploiting any base of operations that we take," said one Special Operations commander on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. "But the 'find' part remains a primitive art. Socom can't kill or capture the bad guys unless the intel people can find them, and this is just not happening."

So we send these teams of John Waynes into other countries, with or without that country's knowledge/permission, to find "terrorists" and act as sheriff, Judge, Jury and Executioner.

God bless America.