Obama wimpiness in the Maersk-Alabama situation

Our earlier commonsense analysis of facts and behavior (Monday, April 13, 2009 Did Obama show leadership in the hostage crisis? NO!! ) led us to the conclusion that Obama's wimpiness had to be OVERCOME in the Maersk-Alamaba incident and that he deserves no positive credit for the happy outcome. This is further validated by the following unsourced report ( anonymously circulating the Internet but not confirmed ):

This is from someone who has friends in the SEALs. Thought you might find this interesting as well. It’s a sad state of affairs when almost every action or report from the government has to be questioned.
BHO (Obama); ROE (Rules of Engagement); OSC(on scene commander)
Having spoken to some SEAL pals here in Virginia Beach yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, the following emerged:
1. BHO wouldn't authorize the DEVGRU/NSWC SEAL teams to the scene for 36 hours going against OSC recommendation.
2. Once they arrived, BHO imposed restrictions on their ROE that they couldn't do anything unless the hostage's life was in "imminent" danger
3. The first time the hostage jumped, the SEALS had the pirates all sighted in, but could not fire due to ROE restriction.
4. When the navy RIB came under fire as it approached with supplies, no fire was returned due to ROE restrictions. As they were shooting at the RIB the pirates were exposed and the SEALS had them all dialed in.
5. BHO specifically denied two rescue plans developed by the Bainbridge CPN and SEAL teams
6. Bainbridge CPN and SEAL team CDR finally decide they have the OpArea and OSC authority to solely determine risk to hostage. 4 hours later, 3 dead pirates.
7. BHO immediately claims credit for his "daring and decisive" behaviour. As usual with him, it's BS.
I'm downgrading Oohbaby's performace to D-. Only reason it's not an F is that the hostage survived.
Read the following accurate account.
Philips’ first leap into the warm, dark water of the Indian Ocean hadn’t worked out as well. With the Bainbridge in range and a rescue by his country’s Navy possible, Philips threw himself off of his lifeboat prison, enabling Navy shooters onboard the destroyer a clear shot at his captors — and none was taken.
The guidance from National Command Authority — the president of the United States , Barack Obama — had been clear: a peaceful solution was the only acceptable outcome to this standoff unless the hostage’s life was in clear, extreme danger.
The next day, a small Navy boat approaching the floating raft was fired on by the Somali pirates — and again no fire was returned and no pirates killed. This was again due to the cautious stance assumed by Navy personnel thanks to the combination of a lack of clear guidance from Washington and a mandate from the commander in chief’s staff not to act until Obama, a man with no background of dealing with such issues and no track record of decisiveness, decided that any outcome other than a “peaceful solution” would be acceptable.
After taking fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the on scene commander decided he’d had enough.
Keeping his authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger to the hostage’s life and having heard nothing from Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue operation had been denied the day before, the Navy officer — unnamed in all media reports to date — decided the AK47 one captor had leveled at Philips’ back was a threat to the hostage’s life and ordered the NSWC team to take their shots.****As we said earlier, it makes more sense to take the shots when the gun was NOT pointed at Capt. Phillips so this story was a cover after the Navy got fed up with BHO's indecisiveness.****
Three rounds downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and Philips was safe.There is upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over the last week that culminated in yesterday’s dramatic rescue of an American hostage.
Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and [1] declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put paid to questions of the inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness. Despite the Obama administration’s (and its sycophants’) attempt to spin yesterday’s success as a result of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort. What should have been a standoff lasting only hours — as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location — became an embarrassing four day and counting standoff between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.
How really to deal with Somali hostage-taking How to Release Hostages - Wayne Long (New York Times) During my 10 years as the chief security adviser for the UN in Somalia, my team and I negotiated releases in more than a dozen hostage cases. Our strategy was simple: UN assistance was withheld from the Somali clan or region by which or in which hostages were being held until those hostages were released. In every case there was a release, and in no case were hostages harmed or ransom paid. In 1995, for example, the water supply for Mogadishu, the capital, was shut off by the UN humanitarian agencies until a hostage who worked for another aid organization was released. On the first day of the shutoff, the women who collected water from public distribution points yelled at the kidnappers; on the second day they stoned them; on the third day they shot at them; on the fourth day, the hostage was released. The writer, a former Army colonel, was the UN's chief security officer in Somalia from 1993 to 2003.
****But, Gee, isn't that "collective punishment" and even blackmail of the innocent? It's too bad "we" don't have the stomach to do the simple things required to deal with pirates/terrorists/hostage-takers/etc. Even the most zealous of jihadi martyrs doesn't want his remains eaten by pigs who might deny his entry to Paradise and might hesitate if his actions caused the destruction of Mecca/Medina. ****