General: We Didn't Even Try To Save American Lives In Benghazi -- Daily Beast
A former general is accusing the U.S. military of not even trying to save the Americans under attack at Benghazi in 2012.
A high ranking officer in the U.S. Africa Command on the night of the Benghazi attacks is now saying that the U.S. military did not try and was never even ordered to save the Americans under attack at the U.S. diplomatic outpost on the September 11, 2012 attack.
In explosive testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell, said bluntly about the military’s response on the night of the Benghazi attack: “The discussion is not in the ‘could or could not’ in relation to time, space and capability, the point is we should have tried.”
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My Comment: General Robert Lovell's testimony has drawn a rebuke from a senior Republican Congressman .... but aside from that it is true that more should have been done. No one knew how long the attack was going to last (5 minutes, one hour, a day, two days) .... but it should have made no difference .... assets should have been quickly mobilized and sent .... even if it was too late. But that did not happen .... and the reason why is that it appears that no one initiated the order that would have made this happen.
I'm just going to leave this here. You would think the U.S. government would have learned something during 13 years of war. Everyone is to blame, but Ambassadors and diplomatic personnel are in harms way. It's what they do.
ReplyDelete1. Jan. 22, 2002: Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Attacks Indian U.S. Consulate
2. June 14, 2002: Suicide Car-Bomb Outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi
3. Oct. 12, 2002: String Of Bali Bombings Included U.S. Consulate
4. Feb. 28, 2003: Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked For the Second Time in One Year
5. May 12, 2003: 36 People Including 9 Americans Die After Terrorists Storm U.S. Compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
6. July 30, 2004: Islamist Attacks U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
7. Dec. 6, 2004: Five Staff and Four Security Guards Die in U.S. consulate attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
8. March 2, 2006: Third Attack on Karachi U.S. Consulate Killed U.S. Diplomat
9. Sept. 12, 2006: Four Gunmen Stormed the U.S. compound in Damascus, Syria
10. Jan. 12, 2007: Greek Terrorists Fired a Rocket-Propelled Grenade at the U.S. Embassy
11. March 18, 2008: A Mortar is Fired at the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
12. July 9, 2008: Three Turkish Policemen were Killed When Gunman Fired on the U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey
13. Sept. 17, 2008: 16 People Including 2 Americans Die in an Orchestrated Attack on the U.S. Embassy Sana’a, Yemen