Posted on 07/12/2014 12:12:46 PM PDT by QT3.14
I agree with you.
Geeze, even I know that, and the closest I’ve ever been to the ramp at Aviano was on a drive through.
A lie designed to fool only the idiots with the high-volume slobber: SAR --Synthetic Aperature Radar turns night into day, piercing even (literal) fog and heavy cloud cover. The units get smaller and smaller. While they used to be on satellites, now they're a bit larger than a bread box, they panelize and are even on small drones --much smaller than Predator.
Leadership plays a huge role in the problems at Benghazi. And the leader at the top is President Obama. He has no military experience. Maybe it’s important for the American Commander-In-Chief to have some military experience. The choke point between the American people and the American military is the President. The President has to show leadership. I have yet to see where Obama displayed any leadership during the Benghazi incident.
People here at Free Republic have rightly stated that experts focus more on logistics than tactics. But leadership is critical. Would Third Army have been able to relieve Bastogne without the leadership of Patton? Probably not. The leader sets the tone. What was the tone set by President Obama in this? He went fundraising. Does that send a message of urgency and concern?
We can analyze Benghazi with an electron microscope, but the truth is always going to be that Benghazi belongs to President Obama.
The fog of war is no excuse to being totally unprepared.
Military and Law Enforcement officers immediately respond to “shots fired” and never wait, you move and call in for instructions. Now they may be called off for extenuating circumstances, but at the outset you drop everything and move - lives may be at risk.
That concept may be old fashioned for the moderns.
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The only 'fog' that hampered the military response in Benghazi is the one that surrounds Barry's head.
No, what hampered it was that he was not even there to give the cross border authority so the military could act.
The others involved just basically sat there and watched them die.
Can you tell me why Amb. Stevens was in Benghazi the night he was killed?
Do you know why we were the last flag flying in Benghazi when the British had left and the Red Cross bombed?
Do you know why requests for additional security by Amb. Stevens were denied or unheeded?
Do you know why no assets were deployed during the siege. Were other countries asked for assistance?
Do you know why Susan Rice was picked to appear on 5 Sunday talk shows when HC claims she hates appearing in that venue?
Under the Clown Prince nobama “leadership” it is becoming the “fag of war.”
Just finished reading the ninth transcript. General Ham. Issa and Chaffetz asked the tough questions. They aren’t whimps.
You analyze Benghazi in chunks of time. You have the time prior to the incident. You have the time when the incident is going on. You have the time after the incident. Most of the questioning for all 9 people focused on what happened prior to the incident. Embassies belong to The State Department. Most of what went on before the incident falls to The State Department. They are the ones who could have prevented this, not the military.
Could the military have done better during the incident? Probably. The Air Force has two big strengths. They can attack from above and they can get to the battlefield fast. Did either of those happen at Benghazi? Why not?
No American military Officer wants to be a goat. They get to the top by believing that they never make mistakes. Well, they do. I have seen Officers who eat bullets for breakfast but could never admit they were wrong or accept criticism. Too bad.
Ambassador Stevens worked out of the facility in Benghazi during the overthrow of Qadaffi. It was probably a well known American facility and a target for some time.
These transcripts are just a little bitty teeny tiny piece of the incident at Benghazi. I stick by my earlier opinion that Benghazi is Obama’s baby.
The fog machine has been running full tilt from the beginning. Funny how some officers told Congress (about 100 years ago it seems) a different story. Maybe Obama managed to fire enough that were involved, and have real info, to be able to ensure those that remain will maintain the Party line....
And you can count on the MSM to further push any facts into the background. If there were photos that made it hard for them to tell lies, then the photos disappeared after everyone saw them, the MSM would say, "I knew it - the photos were a vast Right Wing conspiracy and never existed".
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