Order the stand-down and subsequently refuse aid to Americans fighting for their lives? What could be more damning?
What everyone is ignoring is.where was obamo for the full seven hours? Probably went to bed early or watching a movie or otherwise not fully engaged when it was actually happening....
Supposedly, Obama was the only one who could ask for the trans-border authority to bring support onto the scene. And maybe he didn’t do it, or did it and it was refused by whatever country he requested it of, so he just shrugged and went to bed and left these people to die.
But it seems as if there was already some kind of support there, from drones if nothing else, and in any case, when it suits him in checking off names on his kill-list (inconvenient jihadis who are rivals of his favorite jihadis), he doesn’t appear to care much about borders. So that would make it seem as if perhaps somebody asked his permission to use the assets they already had, and he either denied it or refused to answer.
Even so, I’m not sure that would be enough. People would just say that he didn’t understand the situation because he had been misled by his advisers, or that he had greater goals of some sort (remember, Obama is godlike to these people).
Actually, looking back at the above scenarios, I’d think that the most damning would be the one where he never actually gave an answer, and just went off to bed so he’d be fresh in the morning for his campaign tour. He never appears in any photos of the famous “situation room,” although Hillary and some of the other people he’s tried to use seem to have been there. So perhaps he did just go put on his jammies and refuse to answer the knock on his door.
I remember there was one curious statement that came out from the WH early on: there was a delay of several hours between the first attack (the one that killed the Ambassador and his aide) and the second one (where the SEALS were killed), so Obama thought it was over. In other words, he wasn’t particularly bothered by the fact that the Ambassador was (at that point) missing and the aide was known to be dead, and once the immediate shooting was over, he just went to bed and probably left orders that he not be disturbed until morning. He’s known to be very spiteful and vindictive, so the other people there were no doubt afraid to disturb him when the second attack broke out.