The biggest stench is that it is beginning to look like Obama went night-night to rest up for Las Vegas, instead of seeing the crisis through and (had he been awake) sending a rescue mission.
After 6-8 hours in a few “Fort Apaches” with running street battles between, like a mini Blackhawk Down, the living Americans must have been thinking, “Any minute now, here come the helicopters.”
But they didn’t. So even though Delta had forward staged to Sigonella Sicily (rumint) from base in Germany, nobody was willing or able to pull the trigger and send a rescue force. Or even a few F-18 supersonic flybys, to bust windows and warn, “Here comes American airpower, and you camel jockeys know what that means.” Just a a morale booster it would have helped the besieged staffers.
But it was never sent, not even a lousy supersonic low-level flyby.
Here is the deal, Jeff. The military can do a lot on its own, the minute they see that the consulate (so called) is under attack, and the ambassador and others are in a safe room. At that moment, things happen on autopilot in real time. Everybody in the Navy adn USAF chain of command swings into a crisis contingency plan mode. What ships are closest? Helicopters? Marines? Delta is in Germany? Get them moving right now. Where is closest? Sigonella, for now. It’s NATO, no permission needed, just fly. En route in C-17s, the Delta guys would even be prepping for an immediate action raid, that is, the C-17 will fly directly to some desert road outside of Benghazi, and here comes “The Raid On Entebbe,” crisis mode, canned actions, but they would do it. If they were ordered to.
Or Marines on amphib ships in the central Med, if any were available, would also be put on the real-time options board.
But while all of that military staging would have happened/did happen, what they cannot do on their own say-so is cross an international border without permission of the “Libyan Govt.”
To act unilaterally would have meant the false peace and so-called govt we were propping up didn’t really exist. Libyan sovereignty must be held sacrosanct, even the false image of one, where in reality, Al Queda is top dog.
Anyway, no General or Admiral will order the Marines ashore or Delta or even an F-18 low-level supersonic flyby.
Nada. Zip. Because the POTUS retired for the night with a “do not disturb” sign, punted, and went to bed, to be well rested for Las Vegas.
While his ambassador was he knew not where, at that moment being dragged or even raped. But Obama went to bed.
That is the greatest scandal of Benghazi. The POTUS slept through it, while all around the world, military forces were poised for the Raid on Entebbe or any other damn thing the POTUS ordered them to do. (And the were raring to go, believe me.)
But the POTUS said, “We’ll discuss it further in the morning,” and went to bed around midnight in DC, 6 am in Benghazi, with a missing ambassador.
He went to bed.
God help us.
That’s the big secret they are keeping. The President went to bed, with his lost Ambassador being dragged through streets.
houeto, here is a much better answer to your question than I was able to give you.
ping for distribution, Ernest. post #13
The last few days all I hear is did Hillary ask the Lybian government for permission to enter their air space or did she not? Pray, tell me, did the Israeli government get permission from the Ugandan before the raid in Entebbe?
The obama regime is overthrowing "moderate" dictators and setting in power sunni islamists. When possibly democratic people tried to revolt in Iran obozo voted "present" and looked the other way as they were slaughtered by there shia masters.
A showdown coming in syria between alawite/ shia coalition against the sunni/islamist/al-queda dragging Israel in and the other sunnis picking up the pieces and restoring the "caliphate" to it's "rightful" role as ruler of the ME?
Or a war before the election between Israel and Iran with the sunnis cleaning up?
You nailed it. He went to bed.
This is the most disgusting group of scum ever to preside in Washington and that is saying something. Anyone supporting these scumbags should truly be ashamed to call themselves Democrats.
Obama has proven time and again that he will save himself first and damn the rest.
Our men and women in service to this country have just been served notice that their lives mean nothing to Bathhouse Barry and his gang of thugs.
Kudlow was livid and grilling some guests.
A dem he has in frequently , Goodpasture or something like that... made a ridiculous statement that there was something more serious going on with voteer registration fraudulent activity going on in Florida and Virginia by some company....I kind you not!
He went to bed -- so he could be fresh the next day for his little jouncy-jog thing down the stairs of Air Force One, his little A-Gay frisky-jog that tells everyone how energetic, how vigorous, how young and fresh he is.
Great God.