Why they were abandoned is the question. Makes no sense. Tragic ending to the lives lost, for what purpose?
Let us learn from this ...
We are to be discerning,
The Bible tells us over and over when God’s people turn away from the LORD and worship idols they are destroyed, War, famine, pestilence, or taken as slaves, etc.
Why do we not learn? Forgive us LORD, we have sinned before Thee, we cry for mercy, in Jesus name, amen.
The reason Obama did nothing: the election.
He was campaigning that he got Bin Laden and essentially ended the terror threat. He was campaigning that he ENDED wars, and Romney threatened to start more wars.
He also didn’t want to draw attention to whatever was really going on over there: gun running?
Obama thought this was a “bump in the road” and that this little incident could be quietly swept under the rug.
Ambassador Stevens was 510 miles away from the U.S. Embassy. His embassy. He was in a combat area, yet had only a couple of private security guards.
On 9/11!
Why was a U.S. Ambassador away from his embassy?! What the heck was so important in Benghazi that Stevens had to be there on 9/11 instead of inside his Embassy??
...and Hezbollah knew Stevens was there.
And the area was then too hot for the FBI to bring in plane loads of armed agents until weeks later.
What do you THINK was going on?!
Then Petraeus got canned for going there to find out.
It is clear that Stevens was running an operation that bypassed U.S. intelligence agencies.