It certainly wasn’t known how long the attack would take either...so no good reason not to send support.
Personally, I look at this as one simple piece in the greater Cloward Piven plan. Yes it’s bad and I don’t mean to be flippant saying this at all. But in a big picture sense, it accomplishes a few things. It contributes to CP, it spreads chaos in the ME, it destroys military morale, it weakens us in the eyes of the world miilitarily and in credibility.
All these things are puzzle pieces. This Benghazi issue, Gitmo, BLM, the unemployment issue, Obamacare...all of it.
We look at things individually. We refuse to contemplate that it’s all one plan. The one the communists have been working on since Marx. And we refuse to contemplate it because we all contributed to empowering it in some way. And that upsets us greatly.