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Originally Posted by crockett
What fairy land do you live in, that you think the military can just waltz into a sovereign country unannounced with out it being a act of war? It doesn't matter if an embassy is under attack, we can't just send troops in. Shit Republicans had a conniption fit that we went Into Pakistan and killed Bin Laden and that was a successful mission.
Just think of the Republican outrage that would have gone on had Obama sent troops to Benghazi and a chopper was shot down adding even more dead. Let's not even mention that even the military has said they wouldn't of had time to react anyway, but facts need not get in the way of a Republican tax payer funded inquisition. Neither should common sense.
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If I recall correctly, we had a team of US Marines stationed in Italy as a "emergency response team" exact for such a contingency. US Marines typically handle security at US Embassies around the world.
However, this makes little difference. This is not something where you make a phone call and US Marines are landing in twenty minutes. It would take hours for the White House to make the decision, and then four - five hours for the Marines to plan it out... by then it was all over.
Then you have to factor in that we would have just invaded a foreign country - Very similar to what we did with Pakistan.
However, we shouldn't be questioning what "said after the fact" but instead look into what happened before the attack.... Congress has been cutting funding for security at US embassies by hundreds of millions of dollars PER YEAR, to the tune of a billion dollars since Obama took office.
I would like to know why we aren't holding an investigation into the people who voted to reduce funding for security to embassies.