This also blows away the argument that they had to get permission to move their assets into Libya to do the job.
Increasingly it looks like the regime has to choose between 2 explanations:
1. We are soul-less bastards who didn’t care that 22 people in our complex were going to be gunned down by Islamists.
2. We knew the attack was just a harmless theatrical production so we didn’t need any real protection coming in and screwing up the charade.
Hmm. When the article says that the aircraft were deployed to Libya in March, is that saying that they made runs from Italy to Libya to do airstrikes, or that they were based in Libya and were there ready to be used when they were needed in Benghazi? When I read it I thought the article was saying that the aircraft were kept in Libya. Am I misunderstanding that?
Increasingly it looks like the regime has to choose between 2 explanations:
1. We are soul-less bastards who didn’t care that 22 people in our complex were going to be gunned down by Islamists.
2. We knew the attack was just a harmless theatrical production so we didn’t need any real protection coming in and screwing up the charade.
3. Both of the above.