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Originally Posted by onwebcam
This article should help you out in catching up on what really happened.
"There is an urgent need for full disclosure of what has become the ?Benghazi Betrayal and Cover-up.? The Obama national security team, including CIA, DNI and the Pentagon, apparently watched and listened to the assault on the U.S. consulate and cries for help but did nothing. If someone had described a fictional situation with a similar scenario and described our leadership ignoring the pleas for help, I would have said it was not realistic?not in my America ? but I would have been proven wrong.
We now know why Ambassador Christopher Stevens had to be in Benghazi the night of 9/11 to meet a Turkish representative, even though he feared for his safety. According to various reports, one of Stevens? main missions in Libya was to facilitate the transfer of much of Gadhafi?s military equipment, including the deadly SA-7 ? portable SAMs ? to Islamists and other al Qaeda-affiliated groups fighting the Assad Regime in Syria. In an excellent article, Aaron Klein states that Stevens routinely used our Benghazi consulate (mission) to coordinate the Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Qatari governments? support for insurgencies throughout the Middle East. Further, according to Egyptian security sources, Stevens played a ?central role in recruiting Islamic jihadists to fight the Assad Regime in Syria.?
In another excellent article, Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org noted that there were two large warehouse-type buildings associated with our Benghazi mission. During the terrorist attack, the warehouses were probably looted. We do not know what was there and if it was being administrated by our two former Navy SEALs and the CIA operatives who were in Benghazi. Nonetheless, the equipment was going to hardline jihadis."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ened-benghazi/ |
You clearly have zero understanding of how military tactics work in these circumstances.
While I was in the Marines this was one of the things we trained for, and later on one of the things I taught - entering a US Embassy under fire and taking control. We had mock embassies set up at "Combat Town" on board Camp Lejeune. An attacking force of hundreds of men using trucks with mounted machine guns wasn't even something we considered.
You cannot send in C130s and airplanes to bomb. We are talking about a sovereign nation here, and the embassy was located in the second largest city in Libya. You cannot take a terrorist incident and immediately escalate into an act of war.
Also, there was US Special Forces some four hundred miles away - In Italy, across the Mediterranean Sea. What exactly did you want them to do? Parachute in? Helicopter in? (I did mention the trucks with the mounted machines right?) The only way for them to go in would be with a secured landing area (with protection guaranteed by the Libyans, good fucking luck!) and then have them fight their way in... Only to have more of the same: They would still be vastly out numbered and out gunned.
So immediately military options were completely off the table.
The article itself was clearly very well written. It quotes another source (RadicalIslam.org, not even a fucking newspaper but a website) and mentions "two large warehouse-type buildings" associated with the embassy. The article quotes another article that says the "the warehouses were probably looted" and then "We do not know what was there". So your article quotes some website that claims buildings that might have been associated with the US embassy might have been looted but no one knows what was in those buildings. In others, not an ounce of fact. For all we know these buildings had pillows stuff with feathers in them.