If True, Even More Reason to Regret Obama

5/13/25 National Interest tells how the Osama bin Laden raid put stealth helicopter technology in PRC hands allowing them to make a clone of the stealth Blackhawk. Okay, let's be fair: the crash was unexpected and the SEALS destroyed as much as they could.

The troubling part is why it was carried out the way it was:

But national security decisions do not happen in a vacuum. Obama wanted to make a political show by being the man who got Bin Laden. With the advent of a close 2012 re-election campaign approaching, Obama wanted to open that race by ensuring everyone knew it was his decision that led to the end of America’s greatest enemy. Having a raucous Navy SEAL raid, while riskier, was preferable from a political standpoint than simply dropping some bombs on the compound from a drone.