And so they go get him with only a small army battalion? Where were the tanks and the air support for their safety?

The USA is utter fucking madness that people thinkt hat any of this is actually normal. That kind of firepower may have been excusable if they were going to arrest Pablo Escobar (don't even get me started on the violence in the drug trades that the USA caused) but for a single bon violent pedophile this is not Sparta, it's proper insanity