Albert Kronwall said:
Obama has been killing the crap out of them for the past three years.
Including our Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans by telling our troops to "stand down" and not allowing them to rescue our own. They were sitting ducks and expecting help to arrive for seven hours. Our Commander In Chief was only looking to save his own a$$!
Andy can that be confirmed, especially the part about troops in position to rescue the Ambassador and his team? I would be guessing of course just like everyone else, but if there was a military presence in the area that could have rescued them, I would have to think the president would had sent them (he was one of the few that took the chance with Bin Laden, of course that was planned down to the minute detail), the military team certainly would have wanted to go in. But I also caution if they would have tried to go in and it blew up in their faces, meaning the loss of many of the team (like Jimmy Carter in Iran), civilians caught in the crossfire, etc. Maybe to much bad could have come from an attempt. Not that I wouldn't want them to try if possible, and for those families probably something they wouldn't want to hear, but during the attack if the attempt would have been made and it failed think about the big picture consequences (I guess this is what you might consider the president saving his backside?). While it was tragic and there was probably a lot of things that could have been done differently before hand, the support from the Lybian people themselves for the Ambassador after the attacks, showed truly that he was achieving what he had been sent there to do. The best thing we can do now is bring those people to justice just like we do here in the states and learn from the mistakes of this tragedy. Just my opinion.
Mel