If the administration’s argument tat our military can be reduced due to the technologies available, then. Where was it?
If we reduce our military the way Obama wants, it will be so lean that the administration will be afraid to use the limited resources, for fear of losing a good percentage of them in any instance. They will likely be overwhelmed by masses of poorly trained enemy forces.
I’m still waiting on an answer as to why we needed to be there in the first place.
A staged hostage-taking that went awry is a possibility, but in any case the initial security decision triggered the entire mess.
The Benghazi failure is not unique to zero. Back in the late 60’s, a “reconnaisance” ship, the USS Pueblo, was captured by the North Koreans after being under attack from their patrol boats for approximately 24 hours. According to American officials at the time, the Pueblo was in international waters when the North Korean vessels began their attack.
When the attack began, the Pueblo radioed for assistance, but got none. The request was forwarded to the Chief of Naval Operations who would not order additional ships or aircraft to the Pueblo’s aid. After approximately 22 hours of being under attack, the ONLY military officer with the authority to do so (an Air Force general in Okinawa) sent his ready alert aircraft to aid the Pueblo. Upon arrival in Korea, the aircraft had to have their nuclear warheads offloaded and conventional weapons loaded before they could fly out to the Pueblo’s location. By the time that the weapons were exchanged, it was too dak fro the aircraft to assist the Pueblo.
The next day, the Pueblo surrendered and was ordered in the harbor at Pyongyang. The crew was taken captive and held for 11 months before being repatriated to the U.S. The USS Pueblo was never returned and, TTBOMK, remains in North Korea today.
The captain of the Pueblo, Cdr. Pete Bucher, was court-martialed for losing his ship, but the court-martial board would not convict him. Still, his Navy career was done.
The failure of good men to act is repeated throughout history. The Pueblo affair is one story, Benghazi is another.
GOD help the poor goat-herder who is walking across a Libyan desert with his wife and kidS.
I can see the NY Times headlines now : "PRESIDENT OBAMA SENDS IN ARMED DRONES.... KILLS EMBASSY KILLERS. SAYS 'WE CAME...WE SAW...HE DIED T-O-O'. ALSO, SAYS HILLARY DIDN'T COIN THE PHRASE...SAYS HE RESERVED IT DURING 2008 CAMPAIGN AND SHE STOLE IT."
To be honest, horses wouldn’t have hurt, either.
The pReS_ _ent is an impostor who took delight
in the 911 Atrocities in 2001 and 2012.
NEVER has America been saddled with such
a traitor as Bathhouse Barry.
The usurper has a hatered of the SEALS. He’s proved again and again.
Some reality checks about the ground situation in Benghazi the night of Sept 11, 2012.
It has been almost totally confirmed that at least one laser target designator was operational during the 7-hour fire fight. And, that one fact, puts all the lies and spin generated by the administration and its fellow travelers into the crapper and the chain pulled.
The target designator is used to designate targets for smart bombs and missiles. That class of munitions is called smart because they guide all the way to the target with mean radial errors (MRES) and circle of equal probabilities (CEPS) measured in single meters. What?
When you work munitions issues, tests and operational, you are trying to get the smallest miss distances possible – mean radial error is defined as a range and bearing from the target to the munitions consistent impact. The circle of equal probability is when 50% of your munitions fall inside that circle and 50% outside. The two added together define how accurate that type of munition is.
When I flew as a navigator/radar-navigator in B-52Ds during Vietnam we dropped dumb iron bombs with MRES/CEPS measured in 100rds of feet. Later working with advanced munitions I saw operational test results with MRES/CEPS measured in single digit meters (97% smaller than dumb bombs).
So what does the above hot air mean? There was minimal, if any, risk of missing the targets marked by the laser designator. So the hot air of worrying about where the targets were located and the possibility of killing innocent by-standers is just that - HOT AIR.