24 in real life

The Navy Seal operation to get Osama looked like it was lifted right out of the show 24. On the television show when they showed the segments of the president and his/her cabinet watching a realtime dangerous operation going down via satellite, I thought it was pure theatrics. And the fact that the Seals all got out alive, was movie worthy as well--though these days in a tv show, a couple of Seals would have been killed. It's nice that at least in this case, real life was way better. Now in the tv series 24, all of them would have been killed, except one who was badly injured and one who heroically finished the operation and rescued the injured man. And that one heroic person would have been, uh, duh, Jack Bauer.

I saw on the morning news an interview with an ex Elite Navy Seal from team six who has written a memoir about his life as a Navy Seal; it is due out the end of May. Wow! what good timing. I'm getting it.