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Bin Laden raid was a moment of triumph from "summary" of A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was a high-stakes operation that could have easily gone wrong in a hundred different ways. The risk of failure was significant. If bin Laden had managed to slip away, the political and security consequences would have been dire. But if things had gone south - if the SEALs had been captured or killed, or if the helicopter had crashed - it would have been a disaster of epic proportions. In the Situation Room that night, as we monitored the progress of the operation, the tension was palpable. There was no room for error. The fate of our country, and the lives of those brave men carrying out the mission, hung in the balance. And then, finally, came the word we had all been waiting for: "Geronimo." In that moment, all the planning and preparation paid off. The SEALs had successfully carried out their mission, eliminating the man responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. It was a moment of vindication for the int...
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