We do not know that. We know that assets were available 480 miles away, an hour or two air time. There were drones in the air. We do not know if they were armed or not.
We know that the assets in Italy were not allowed to respond.
“We know that the assets in Italy were not allowed to respond.”
Those assets in Italy were reportedly the same distance away as the folks in Tripoli that were sent to Benghazi. That tells me that a purely political decision was made to exclude the military.
The obvious conclusion is this all went through the WH and that is where the answers are.
You are correct. I’m not sure what I read earlier today, but it seemed to imply there was one C-130 in the direct vicinity. It was the first time I had heard of one being there. Perhaps I confused topics and it was an old story talking about it being on location in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Sorry about that.
The fight at the annex lasted 6 to 7 hours. I’ve heard several figures. It would seem we could get an aircraft in there to help out over that period. Evidently the guys on the ground thought we could, since they were evidently lasing targets. If not, something else could have been done.
We did have the drones, and they could tell us what forces we would have been facing.
I do appreciate the correction the C-130s. Thanks.