Posted on 02/11/2015 6:10:24 PM PST by blueyon
U.S. Embassy Marines in Yemen handed over their M-9 pistols and M-4 carbines before evacuating the chaotic country with diplomatic personnel, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The Marines also left behind several vehicles at the airport in the capital city of Sanaa before departing on a civilian flight, said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
Warren said the Marines destroyed their machine guns and other crew-served weapons before leaving the Embassy for the airport. He also said that it was unclear who now had custody of the weapons and vehicles that were surrendered.
A Marine spokesman could not immediately say whether the surrender of weapons by Embassy Marines in an evacuation was unprecedented.
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Obama reeks of treason.
Ordered to do so by Traitorobama or Traitorkerry?!?
“Come back with your shield - or on it”
Or not. Whatever, dude.
Just Damn!
And if they had landed in SF they wouldn’t be allowed off the airplane, like last time.
Marines were ordered to evacuate with tails between their legs. Humiliation. Who’s bright idea?
In the middle east, especially, respect is given to the strong horse. It is all about face and saving face. This is a terrible defeat, even though no shots were fired. It is all about perception.
Couldn’t an honorable evacuation have been arranged?
Certainly. They could have arranged that.
But that wasn't what the Obama admin was seeking. Obviously.
This decision reeks of estrogen.. Odumbo’s decision? Or maybe Janet Psaki or Marie Harf?
Odumbo has been working behind the scenes to abandon our Yemen embassy to please Iran as part of the nuke negotiation.. Okay, we gave Iran our embassy so what do we get? Oh yeah, we get one less embassy under Odumbo! Make that three now since 2010.
What a stupid move. Why humiliate the marines? Why put them in this situation? Who is responsible?
I bey whomever is responsible will be very hard to find, just like the phantom who gave the stand down Benghazi order.
Many, many Americans serve in the military. Certainly they see this for the humiliation that it is.
Maybe Val...................
I don’t think we needed to see that.
That’s pretty...um, um, sick
Is an order to surrender in a way that military tradition has always deemed humiliating a lawful order?
This means we’ll have absolutely no humint coming from Yemen, a key area for the GWOT [which Obama isn’t fighting anyway.]
Perhaps it is time for a military Coup! This moron will have us learning the evening call to prayer soon. As much as I love my mother I am glad we laid her to rest 3 years ago. She would have had a very hard time with todays leadership. This is NOT the America she grew up in...
""Were you ever spat upon when you returned home to the United States?" asked syndicated columnist Greene of the Vietnam veterans among his readership. He received over 1000 letters in reply, many recounting specific details of just such a painfully remembered incident..."
http://www.amazon.com/Homecoming-When-Soldiers-Returned-Vietnam/dp/0399133860
That SF?
At least we have the right guy running the State Department.
“....they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan.....”
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