Bad analogy. The Libyan government requested assistance to capture what are in effect pirates that stole oil.
#30: Right; Look at this as a win for our side. Retook a covert No. Korean ship (got to be worth something, even as scrap or a floating casino). Got back some oil for whatever govt is still in Benghazi. Captured some bad guys.
No US losses and one Seal Team win. I guess someone in the Navy didn’t tell Secy Nav Mabus that they were actually going to fight terrorists and communists, so that he couldn’t announce the operation to the world before it took place.
Somewhere pro-American Navy personnel are smiling.