General Cartwright may be right, but the question should be, "Were those assets set in motion as soon as the report of the attack came in?" No one knew how long this would take-- hours, days, or weeks. What decisions were made in hour one to send help?
“Col Cartwright USMC on ABC just said that it would have taken until the next day to send any military aircraft over Benghazi — atleast 9 hours to fuel and load ordinances — so no rescue by air was possible.”
If in fact the Colonel is right, then the military is in much worse shape than I ever thought. Having served in the US Army and the USAF I can say that no way would it have ever taken us none hours just to get off the ground.