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6 men? How many enemy was there?
What is the point?
6 men? How many enemy was there?
What is the point?
Wasn't hard.
, but making the decision not to send 6 more to certain death might have been a completely appropriate call.
Benghazi wasnt a John Wayne movie. that could have just made the death toll 10 instead of 4. I am sure making such decisions would weigh heavily one anyone that had to make it. Of course Fox has you all beleiveing every in the government is completely amoral and uncaring, but making the decision not to send 6 more to certain death might have been a completely appropriate call. But none of us will ever knwo for sure, it was a judgement call in the fog of war. Fox shamefully politiziced the deaths of good Americans while performing their duties. That is the point.
You don't really seem to know much at all about Benghazi, do you? Those six guys rescued six State Department personnel who would have certainly been killed. They also aided in the evacuation of about 30 people from the CIA annex, while protecting classified information and killing dozens of attackers. These were skilled Spec Ops people, but you think another 10 would not have helped. If they only had some air support, even 1 jet, they probably would have all gotten out alive. Oh, and none of this info is from Fox, CNN, or MSNBC (LOL!).
I am sure the deciscion weighed heavily on someone, not Obama as he dreamed of sugar plums in his little bed.
That response had nothing to with my question, which was
You had bombed them to help the people who are in power and now they wont help you? What kind of screw-up is that? Is is the job of the Obama administration to lead from behind drop bombs on people they don't like, with no regards for the consequences? Isn't that rather short-sighted?
Isn't that exactly what you did earlier to Libya? And what did it get you??
So you are against 'patriotic support'? That goes a long way in explaining why you are in the same camp as Hillary and Barry.
Yes, there was a list which had the exact incidents you requested on there. Now you are just ignoring evidence because you do not want to believe the truth.
They are in charge of their sovereign nation and rebuilding and securing it after their coup. This is the difference between something like Iraq and something like libya. In Iraq we invaded and then had to set about securing the country with our forces while we trained our puppet government to secure it themselves. During the time we occupied we did not have to ask permission to go do things like send in troops. the troops were already there. In libya we left most of that stuff to their newly established government which is not loyal to us, but rather to themselves and their people. Yes, this means that they will not allow foreign armies to invade their civilian areas and engage in combat. You may find that wrong, but I do not see that as something anyone with any reason should expect. I also recognize the reality that having US troops come in and massacre their citizens in the street would certainly have destabalized any power the new government had and hindered their effectiveness. What you are talking about is absurd to expect. It is their country, they run it, and we did not take it. That means they have every right to say no even though we may think they should have said yes. That may mean we decide not to give them support or diplomatic relations with the US, which is something that probably benefits their government much more than ours, but we do not get to invade them with our military, and that may mean some people die. Sorry, but that is the way the world works. You can dislike that and feel it is unfair, but you really cannot blame Obama for those realities as they existed long before he was even born.
Oh, and before you start thinking the US is way above tjhat sort of thing you should be aware our country would almost certainly not exist without the help of the french. We should owe the french and be thankful for their help in our own revolution because without them we would all be drinking tea and soluting the queen of england. Really, do we treat the french with any sort of respect? If some of the right wing got together a few years back and decided to blow up a french embassy in the US because they did not like the frenchs' opposition to our wars, would the french army been allowed to start flying warplanes over the area and dropping in troops to kill american citizens, or would we have had our police secure the area and stop the riot? Could you imagine the meltdown the right wing would have if obama allowed any foreign country to come onto US soil with their military and attack something, even if their own countryment were certain to be killed by americans? So yes I do not expect the libyans to allow a foreign country to operate their military against their citizens when there is no way we would ever allow that on our own soil. What you are saying is hypocrisy.
Personally i always thought libya was a stupid thing to get intio. Kadaffi was a evil nutbar, but he had calmed his position towards the US, and may have actually kept his country secure from terrorists. The destruction of his regime has also destroyed the stability of libya and has empowered smaller factions to grow in power and gain footing in the country. About the only good thing was obama did not put us on the hook for an invasion and merely gave support and left it there. Of course, that means that the libyans can say no to us, and they can drag their feet or not investigate this fully. It might be they do not have the present stability and power to even operate like that if they wanted to. I think they should take responsibility for the safety of foreign diplomats as most countries would, but I can see where they are not ready to do that yet. I also recognize the reality that if the US removes aid from libya we also reduce the ability their government has of getting control, and if we push issues and decide to invade when we shouldn't the country will be another enemy. It is a sucky situation as many things in the world are. At best I could say there is an argument we should not have had diplomats there to begin with, but considering they could be an ally and an asset I do not think that argument has any meritt.
We did owe the French and we paid the debt back in our blood at least twice. We don't owe them anymore.
So what day did you finally pay off your parents for your existence? They are so silly trying to talk to you and be a part of your life after you paid them back for your birth. be3cause it is totally like you can pay that sort of thing off.
LOL.
The French were not and are not our parents. And lets not lose sight of the fact that they didn't help us out just from the goodness of their heart, there was a lot of advantage in it for them.
At any rate we would have never allowed the french to act on our soil with their military and attack our citizens even before the day you think we paid them off. Why should libya be different than us?
I don't know. Ask Obama. He's the one that attacked a sovereign nation that had threatened no other country. Problem is, Obama doesn't like to talk about Libya much these days so he'll probably ignore you like he does everybody else.
I don't know. Ask Obama. He's the one that attacked a sovereign nation that had threatened no other country. Problem is, Obama doesn't like to talk about Libya much these days so he'll probably ignore you like he does everybody else.
So you are cool with saying the US should not play world police and should keep it's nose out of other country's affairs?
As long as our security or vital national interest are not at stake, yes. Nobody could lie good enough to convince a rational person the Libya misadventure met either.
Yes, there was a list which had the exact incidents you requested on there. Now you are just ignoring evidence because you do not want to believe the truth.
You don't really seem to know much at all about Benghazi, do you? Those six guys rescued six State Department personnel who would have certainly been killed. They also aided in the evacuation of about 30 people from the CIA annex, while protecting classified information and killing dozens of attackers. These were skilled Spec Ops people, but you think another 10 would not have helped. If they only had some air support, even 1 jet, they probably would have all gotten out alive. Oh, and none of this info is from Fox, CNN, or MSNBC (LOL!).
I am sure the deciscion weighed heavily on someone, not Obama as he dreamed of sugar plums in his little bed.
Benghazi: The Definitive Report, written by Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy
Faux.
Strawman. This is another (one of the many) reason only RWers listen to the drivel.
That operation was a total and incompetent **** up, and you know it. Stop protecting the incompentency of the leadership.