Charles Woods, the father of Ty Woods, one of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, lamented that “I really don’t have closure as far as who made the decision not to rescue.”
First of all, I am sorry for your loss.
That said, you can't get closure on who made the decision not to rescue because [no such decision was made]:
Over at the Pentagon, officials had taken action rapidly after word of the attack arrived. An operations officer with the United States Africa Command who was controlling an unarmed Predator drone flying over the Libyan city of Darnah was told to redirect it to Benghazi, about an hour away. After a meeting with the White House, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered two Marine Corps Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams platoons in Rota, Spain, to prepare to deploy; one was going to Benghazi and the other to Tripoli. He also dispatched a special operations unit from the United States. Finally, a team of American military commandos training in Croatia were ordered to head to Benghazi. The group, called the Commander’s In-Extremis Force, was formed to rapidly handle unexpected emergencies; it was the only unit close to Benghazi with the skills necessary to conduct a rescue, kill the militants and avoid civilian deaths. The group got as far as the Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, Italy, placing them about an hour from Benghazi. But by that point, the assault in the Libyan city was over.
A woman in the crowd floated a new Benghazi conspiracy. “Has someone in the GOP leadership gotten their fingers involved in watering down some of this to benefit Secretary Clinton?” she asked.
While driving around today I was listening to El Rushbo and Hannity (San Diego is a terrible radio wasteland) and both of them were in full panic mode trying to keep the base stirred up in the face of this terrible disappointment. Rush says Gowdy came to no conclusions because to do so would appear partisan and give the MSM permission to ignore him. Hannity was just out of control, as he lacks Rush's self-awareness.
These people are completely insane. The fact that some of them held high rank in our armed forces is absolutely frightening. This is the sort of incoherent, rabid paranoid gibberish I expect from a bunch of homeless crack heads finishing off a seven day binge, but it is the driving force behind one of our two major political parties.
I thought I took it much better when Cheney wasn't indicted at The Hague.
First of all, I am sorry for your loss.
That said, you can't get closure on who made the decision not to rescue because [no such decision was made]:
Jesus, it gets worse:
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While driving around today I was listening to El Rushbo and Hannity (San Diego is a terrible radio wasteland) and both of them were in full panic mode trying to keep the base stirred up in the face of this terrible disappointment. Rush says Gowdy came to no conclusions because to do so would appear partisan and give the MSM permission to ignore him. Hannity was just out of control, as he lacks Rush's self-awareness.
"…lacks Rush's self-awareness"
*shudders*
These people are completely insane. The fact that some of them held high rank in our armed forces is absolutely frightening. This is the sort of incoherent, rabid paranoid gibberish I expect from a bunch of homeless crack heads finishing off a seven day binge, but it is the driving force behind one of our two major political parties.
will you write the intro to my next book? You've got a gift there, my friend.