Jets could have been sent from Italy, but we would have needed Obama to approve entry into Libyan airspace without their approval.
My biggest problem with Benghazi was that we were even there. Not only were the facilities below required security standards, but the fact that we could not depend on the host government to provide the needed protection should have caused us to leave. The host government is our primary defense and we should never have a diplomatic facility where that is not the case. The host government had ample time, over 8 hours, to send protection to the annex after the attack on the mission.
And there is our answer of whom had the authority to order a Stand Down. Have no doubt we could have rescued those four Men. zer0 had to continue though to set up what he was promised which was a deal. All that was done and said from the zer0 crowd was simply a ruse. The media still perplexes me though. Soon it will be their journalists being killed. That deal will probably wait though till a republican can be blamed. moslems are stupid but they play both sides against the middle and the moslems perceive the middle to be the media, in our nation.
My agreement ... somewhere back around the beginning of Egypt's ruckus, I was for and am still for leaving the entire area and pulling all money from them and forcing them to fend for themselves. We eventually will have to return but let them kill each other for a while before they eventually get back around to us ... is my theory. So therefore ... we are in greater agreement the more we type.