Dear Diary: I am flying home from Bagram base in Afghanistan, having inked a new partnership deal with Karzai and delivered a primetime TV speech to the American people, at midnight Kabul time, to underline the anniversary of my gutsy attack on Bin Laden. My rhetoric soared like the glistening new skyscrapers in Southern Manhattan, if I may say so myself and I do. There cannot have been a dry eye in the living rooms of America. Meanwhile duplicitous sources not a million miles from the Pentagon are claiming that the military went ahead with the raid without my immediate approval because I had been "indecisive." How disingenuous! Let history record that I was delaying a decision out of an abundance of caution -- what if it had failed? What if the Seals had shot at Bin Laden and missed? It would all have been blamed on Me. How right I was to be cautious. As a result, if the raid had failed , the blame would have fallen safely on Panetta and the top military brass.
Of course, another advantage of visiting Kabul was that it offered the Secret Service advance team no chance to visit places of ill-repute. It's well after midnight DC time now, so it's time to go to sleep. Marvelous Marv, my trip director, has thoughtfully laid out my blue jammies and Boo-boo my blankey. Now, a quick prayer to myself in gratitude for my outstanding military leadership and remarkable courage while on the ground for seven terrifying hours in Kabul. And so to bed.
Of course, another advantage of visiting Kabul was that it offered the Secret Service advance team no chance to visit places of ill-repute. It's well after midnight DC time now, so it's time to go to sleep. Marvelous Marv, my trip director, has thoughtfully laid out my blue jammies and Boo-boo my blankey. Now, a quick prayer to myself in gratitude for my outstanding military leadership and remarkable courage while on the ground for seven terrifying hours in Kabul. And so to bed.
