The ongoing operation was already blown.
There are a lot of posts on the subject on FReerepublic. Maybe some of the knowledgeable posters will elaborate.
Possibly true, but there might be people still “inside” the terrorists’ organization(s). Even if not, the Administration itself can’t admit a blown op at this point. (See 3rd paragraph below.)
However, I was thinking more that there might be a follow up or parallel operation to get back or destroy some of those missiles. Come to think of it, I highly doubt that one operation, even if successful, would account for more than a decent fraction of them. So, there might be an op or ops we don’t know about, that can’t be exposed now (or at least not for the last few weeks.) Heck, if you want to get really devious, the blown operation that people have been posting about could be a decoy, and Stevens and the others just pawns, who weren’t supposed to get killed. But, I’ll admit, that’s “really out there” as an idea.
I think the main point is that the Obama Administration can’t admit to thousands of MANPADs in AQ hands, before the election, and they sure as heck politically can’t afford to have a MANPAD take down something like an AC-130 or an airliner. It’s just as they probably felt they could not politically afford to send in the cavalry. Better to say the Consulate attack was a riot caused by a video, and CYA...
I know, it’s a twisted mentality, but we’ve known that a long time. :-(