Originally Posted by Rochard

Maybe; There are a lot of fine lines in such areas. We supported the "Libyan opposition forces", which seems to have included Al Qaeda to some extent. And then Al Qaeda attacked our embassy there. It might be less about Al Qaeda trying to secure weapons and more about Al Qaeda having the opportunity to attack the US. We still have yet to see how Al Qaeda benefited from this attack. Seems that one article seems to imply "some buildings that may be associated with the US" was "possibility storing weapons of some sort or maybe down pillows" and that they "might have been looted during the attack on the embassy". You have no story here yet - This article is second guessing everything. For all we know these buildings were owned by a company out of Hong Kong and were storing rubber ducks.

As for the "second screwed up operation the Obama admin has been caught up in".... I'm not seeing that. Seems to me the goal was to remove Gaddafi, and in that respect the mission was a complete success. And I am also guessing that Congress was involved as well - You can't be moving around millions of dollars of military hardware without Congress knowing about it. It's just like the Iran Contra Affair - You really don't think Congress and the White House didn't know what was going on?