You’re going to hate me for linking to a liberal blog, but didn’t congress (primarily under Repubs in House) cut $300 million from embassy security budget?

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/budget/news/2012/09/18/38352/diplomats-national-security-and-the-house-budget/

My big issue is that some of the people trying to score points right now on sunday talk shows were at least equally responsible for lack of security in Benghazi…

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Sachmo —

The military has a tendency to lean forward in the saddle. It is their job. They run to the sound of the gunfire. They anticipate where trouble is going to happen and they prepare for such contingencies.

Having been a professional soldier myself I can assure you that a Captain with a company of Rangers or paratroopers or an A Team leader with a SF team would have sorted that mess out pretty damn quick.

It would have only taken: ‘Captain, take your men down there and sort that shit out. Now. Questions?”

The fact that assets were on the ground in Tripoli while the feces was hitting the fan in Benghazi — an hour away — indicts the notion that there was no possible help to send. WTF?

The bigger question is this — if there were no military assets in close proximity to Benghazi on the anniversary of 9-11 when the entire Middle East is aflame, who is running the show? Where would you pre-position such assets — Disneyland?

This is just basic contingency planning. If I am in charge, someone loses their job over that oversight. WTF?

There should have been boots in the air ready at all times to come to the rescue of American interests in the Middle East on the anniversary of 9-11 when the entire region is on fire.

BRC
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