They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have emerged soaked in blood that was not their own. On clandestine raids in the dead of the night, their weapons of choice have ranged from customized carbines to primeval tomahawks.
Around the world, they have run spying stations disguised as commercial boats, posed as civilian employees of front companies and operated undercover at embassies as male-female pairs, tracking those the United States wants to kill or capture.
Those operations are part of the hidden history of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, one of the nation’s most mythologized, most secretive and least scrutinized military organizations. Once a small group reserved for specialized but rare missions, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been transformed by more than a decade of combat into a global manhunting machine.
That role reflects America’s new way of war, in which conflict is distinguished not by battlefield wins and losses, but by the relentless killing of suspected militants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html
Should you be a fan of US Navy Seals, here's an homage to them from The New York Times.
I see little difference between them and what the Mafia used to call Murder Inc., other than the Seals are far more effective and global in their reach.
"The relentless killing of suspected militants" is MURDER, NOT WAR. I do not condone murder, by anyone - anywhere - any time - for any reason.
If the Seals think they're doing this for G-d and country, they couldn't be more deluded.
And if they're just doing it for money, glory, or machismo ... that's pretty sad.
By the way, these are the people who will be infiltrating the US as part of JADE HELM 15 - people whose modus operandi is the relentless killing of suspected militants. If you think they wouldn't do this to US citizens, you are worse than a fool. If you are pleased that they would, you are sick.
Update: Here's another assessment which more or less agrees with mine:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/09/pers-j09.html
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