[superfries]

Is there not a carrier in the Med? Didn’t we use to have one there all the time?

[Yosemitest]

According to Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, Retired:

Huckabee: General, I want to get right to … a burning question.
The Administration and military officials, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said
there were no assets that could have been moved, in place, for a rescue operation, to at least have intervened.
Is that … Is that a realistic, honest and an implausible answer?

Lt. Gen. Boykin: Governor, I don't believe so.
You know, when we created the Delta Force and Seal Team 6 back in the late 70s early 80s, to be able to respond to just this kind of thing.
And then in the early 90s we put in extremists forces in every theater, and their primary target was Embassies.
Then we have the 6th Fleet out in the Mediterranean, and we have a variety of other assets all across the Southern literals.
To say "We couldn't respond", I find incredible. Shame on us, but I don't believe that.

But I can't confirm that.