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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the whole situation leading up to it -- mistakes were made and hindsite is 20/20.  Who knows that the chatter was saying, who knows if the protesters were just a cover for the attack, shouldn't have used contractors at an embassy in Libya (hello, this isn't Paris).  I get all that.

What I can't figure out is what the hell happened once it all started going down.  What was the President doing?!?!  The firefight alone was 5 hours long.  FIVE HOURS!  Did they send in Marines?  Did they call in any special forces?  Cairo had already been going on for hours before that so was there any sort of movement of anyone to handle the situation.  Then the Ambassador's body was gone for 12 hours!!!  Only to show up at the airport in the hands of Libyians?  WTH?!?!  The President knew Tuesday night that the Ambassador was missing.  What did he do?  Did he go to sleep?  Did he call in someone to get their asses there and find him?

That is what I find the most disturbing.  How could we allow anyone to attack an embassy for 5 hours and take the Ambassador's body for 12 hours?  This is the middle east, we have so many assets in that area and no one was sent in?  I find that the most disturbing.  I wish someone would focus on that.[/quote]

How could we allow???

Have you ever tried to protect a house in the middle of a foreign country?  Now imagine you have to do it for how many hundred consulates we have.

Of all the DCUM comments, I think the worst is "why didn't the government save us from XXX?"  Government cannot be limited and budget constrained but omnipotent at the same time.  It does not control the wind and rain.  Government cannot make your house worth 20% more than it is, even if you thought it was worth more when you bought it.  It cannot prevent trees from falling on power lines.  And it cannot secure any house around the world, at will, in a few hours' time.[/quote]

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