No, blue, they did NOT assume their plan could fail. Narcissists never assume their perfect plans can fail. They are shocked when they do. They do not have contingency plans for the impossible because they cannot possibly fail. There was no fall back plan.
Why wasnt Obama giving a press conference about how he was going to fix all this and get justice for Stevens? Nope.
Did you miss it? Obama did do just that. He said we would do everything humanly possible to bring the perpetrators, the members of the mob, to justice. And the creator of that reprehensible YouTube trailer as well... All to get "justice" for Ambassador Stevens and the other victims. Then they talked and talked and talked...
I think you’re spot on, except for the BC stuff and you thinking there wasn’t any arms smuggling going on.