On CNN this morning, one of the CNNewsies was bashing a State Dept official, and he kept repreating "It's been a week! It's been a week! Why is the response so slow??"
A WEEK! How fast do you expect ships to move? Should we have immediately started evacuating people when the first bomb dropped??? Ridiculous. People need to take their own responsibility for working, visiting, and vacationing in such a garden spot like Beirut.
Let me point out that the Iwo Jima amphibious landing group is STILL in the Red Sea, seven days after this thing began. You have to START moving a ship before it can get somewhere.