Obama dragged his feet on killing Osama Bin Ladin. Supposedly the mission was aborted twice. Another story is Lean Panetta authorized it and Obama wasn’t told about it until it was too late to be stopped.
We can see Obama cannot act decisively and the same applied to a rescue at Benghazi. Plus Obama was not going to risk a fiasco that would hurt his election chances. Plus just a bunch of foolish white boys (four of them) who might get killed at Benghazi.
Obama knew that Jimmy Carter’s attempt at rescuing the Iranian hostages (Operation Eagle Claw) had greatly hurt his election chances
I agree. So he punted and went to bed, accepting that the outcome would be sub-optimal with a few Americans dead.
But to go to sleep while his ambassador was missing, is not forgivable.