Admiral McRaven at the SOTU

Spencer Ackerman of Wired's Danger Room reports Admiral Bill McRaven will have the seat of honor next to First Lady Michelle Obama at tonight's State of the Union address.  As regular readers of this blog know, Admiral McRaven was the commander of JSOC at the time of last May's successful raid to kill Osama bin Laden, and was the commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force that captured Saddam Hussein in December 2003.

Although some will argue that this represents an inappropriate politicization of the Abbottabad raid (as if that isn't going to happen a million times this year anyways), I personally don't think Admiral McRaven and the men he led can be sufficiently honored for their service to their country.  Yet because McRaven has already been "outed" by his televised confirmation hearings for his current position as Commander of U.S. SOCOM, he has to serve as the proxy for all the "Quiet Professionals" whose identities remain closely guarded secrets.