With it being a 9/11 anniversary and our embassies were being attacked all over the Mideast and Africa, are they serious to say we had no military assets ready to go???
There is always a Marine Expeditionary Unit with a small amphibious fleet that cruises between the Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea. This is a heavily-reinforced battalion with helicopters, landing craft, artillery and a company of four Abrams tanks. Unfortunately on September 11 the MEU was in the Gulf of Aden training in Djibouti, well over 1,000 miles away. One of the missions of an MEU is embassy evacuation.
Col. David Hunt last night on FOX News, Judge Piro, said there were small units of special operations personnel in Germany, Eastern Europe and Italy. He said there was a rapid response team in Croatia that could have been airborne within an hour.
Piro also had a former Navy SEAL on who backed up what Hunt said.
I think Obama decided to cauterize the Benghazi damage by not sending any more forces into the fray for fear of taking more casualties and possibly escalating the battle. He had fundraising to do and he's no wartime president. And I think he went to bed telling Hillary: “This is your mess—you deal with it.”
With the help of the news media they've been able to spin this thing up until last week. The day of the hearing the whole facade began falling apart.