A military operation that was proposed just a few weeks ago under the Obama administration was carried out over the weekend in Yemen and has resulted in the first military casualty under President Trump. The Washington Post has jumped in with an intense criticism of the decision, saying it will serve “as an early lesson for President Trump’s national security team about the perils of overseas ground operations.” How about that for compassion?

To accentuate the tragedy, The Post chose a big font to promote its story and claim Trump a chaotic commander-in-chief.

Here’s the report about the mission. Note where the "chaos" really came from:

In Saturday’s operation, the SEALs faced difficulties from the start. After the U.S. forces descended on the village of Yaklaa, a heavily guarded al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) stronghold surrounded by land mines, militants launched an intense counterattack.

As the pitched gunbattle continued, officials called in Marine Cobra helicopter gunships, backed by Harrier jets, to strike the AQAP fighters, according to U.S. officials familiar with the incident.

An elite Special Operations air regiment was then sent in to pull the team and its casualties out of the fray, banking into the night under heavy fire to link up with a Marine quick-reaction force that had taken off in MV-22 Ospreys from the USS Makin Island floating offshore.

The two units planned to meet in the desert to transfer the wounded SEALs so they could be taken back to the amphibious assault ship for treatment, but one of the Ospreys lost power, hitting the ground hard enough to wound two service members and disable the aircraft.

With the twin-engine transport out of action, a Marine jet dropped a GPS-guided bomb on the disabled $70 million Osprey to ensure that it did not fall into militant hands.

Yemeni officials said the operation killed 15 women and children, including the 8-year-old daughter of the late radical Yemeni American cleric Anwar ­al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 in a U.S. drone strike. American officials said they were unable to immediately confirm the civilian deaths but suggested that most or all of those killed were militants.

Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said women participated in the gunfight.

The report goes on to note that a former senior defense official said an operation like this in Yemen was long “overdue,” thanks to Obama administration constantly dragging its feet: “We really struggled with getting the White House comfortable with getting boots on the ground in Yemen. Since the new administration has come in, the approvals [at the Pentagon] appear to have gone up.”

Apparently Trump making tough decisions earns him a “chaos” but when Obama did nothing, The Post was okay with that.

This was the first U.S.-led ground raid in Yemen since 2014, according to the report. Of those wounded, SEAL Team 6’s Chief Petty Operator William “Ryan” Owens, 36, of Peoria, Illinois, died from his injuries. 

On Wednesday, President Trump flew to Dover Air Force Base with little fanfare for the dignified transfer of Owens.