I’m pretty sure he said it because I was thinking, “Huh??”
22-men might be a large police response but it is a pitiful military response. I have personally worked with forces smaller than that but they had massive aerial fire power at their immediate beck and call; an 8-man team supported by a Specter gunship with extremely liberal ROEs is the smallest I would have committed to that mission.
What we saw, have seen, and will continue to see is the result of our current political leadership (D) being absolutely unwilling to pay the political price for being wrong.
When I was a young man, about the age of today's line grunts we had LBJ (D) and Robert McNamara (D) who were unable to pay a similar political bill by admitting they had no clue about Vietnam; how to win or how to get out. And how many men out of the 58,000 + on THE WALL paid for their actions?