Forbes on Benghazi

[ArtM72]

I pulled up the FOXNews link you provided. Here is what I learned from it:

• The attack on the consulate began around 10 pm (local Libyan time, 4 pm in Washington)
• A surveillance drone was dispatched to Benghazi after the attack began, followed by a second drone to relieve the first which may have been running out of fuel.
• Fighting at the consulate stopped for several hours (midnight to 3 am?) before the mortar fire at the annex commenced.
• An American Quick Reaction Force arrived at the Benghazi airport from Tripoli at 2 am.
• Libyan Militia arrived at the annex at 3 am.
• Woods and Doherty were killed by a mortar shell (one of four shots total in the attackl) at 4 am.

ASSUMING this all is true (the information is taken directly from thatFOX article) any suggestion that the White House was watching the entire time and doing nothing (as I believe you stated in an earlier post, something about 200 Americans sitting on their hands watching the show) is just simply wrong.

1. There was no drone overhead at the start of the attack. News of the attack went through channels and a drone was presumably immediately diverted from an existing mission; a second drone was launched and sent to scene.

2. A quick reaction force was activated in Tripoli and on the ground in Benghazi within hours.

3. The mortar attack on the Annex killing Woods and Doherty was very limited...only four rounds total...suggesting that threat was immediately taken out or fired their shots then disappeared.

As to this attack being "preventable" I would suggest the only way to absolutely prevent such things from happening is to remove all American diplomatic missions from overseas. Then some other American target would be chosen by people who have the motivation to do so. Maybe a university campus, maybe the office or plant of some American corporation, maybe a busload of American tourists somewhere. The fact is that nothing is absolutely preventable given sufficient motivation. By the way, the request for additional security was for the Tripoli embassy not the Benghazi consulate.

As to the continued harping about "The Video", "The video" certainly was an issue stirring up protests at that time in other parts of the Moslem world. So people connected dots incorrectly? The video association, whether it existed or not, has no relevance to what happened. The attack was an attack, whatever spawned it. Claiming somehow the President "was lying" about whether the attack was the result of video or terrorism is simply just another piece of sh*t thrown against the wall. Somehow that piece stuck in some people's minds as important even though it was completely irrelevent to the attack itself or the Administration's response. Completely irrelevent. Completely irrelevent, except to people who look for every opportunity to promote the hatred of Obama.

Go back and review the timeline of events before you do anymore Monday morning quarterbacking. When it comes to posting misinformation feel free to remove the log from your own eye before criticizing a speck in the President's.