Because the military was gathering information with an unarmed drone does not equate to action against an unexpected attack. Benghazi was believed to be a benign location in Libya. No one expected a militia to show up to kill at will. An action after the fact Egypt's violence at the USA Embassy was taking place.
The idea there could have been an organized attack of jets out of Italy to somehow intervene is not realistic. It would have amounted to American assets killing unidentified people and quite possibly citizens. The intelligence was not good and the unarmed drone flight was the beginning of the gathering of intelligence.
...Meanwhile, (click here) White House and Defense Department meetings and briefings went on and on in Washington, and no one took action. Yet overseas, AFRICOM immediately dispatched an unarmed drone to survey the scene in Benghazi, which provided the Obama Administration with real-time information on the attack....
Why is it the Heritage Foundation has such a poor attitude about a Democratic Administration and a blind eye to a Republican one?
