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Originally Posted by spence
No, the Embassy attack would be a reactive situation.
If you bothered to read my posts above I mentioned the restrictions on US security and the policy likely guiding the actions. We were trying to draw down a US presence, not maintain or escalate it.
If this was stupidity or not I'm not sure we know, but if so it would look like a mid-level deputy made a bad call.
I'm not sure they really knew what the heck had happened to be honest. Look at how long it took the FBI to even get onsite. I do think they could have handled the messaging better early on, be less specific until the facts were more clear etc...
-spence
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"We were trying to draw down a US presence, not maintain or escalate it."
We did not "try" to reduce the US presence, we did reduce the presence. The resukts speak for themselves, 4 dead.
Spence, do you really think that removing 24 security team members from an ebmassy is going to make these people like us more.
Peace through strength.
God, do you ever get one right, even by accident? Spence, when you have large numbers of armed people trying to kill diplomats, what's the benefit of pulling out the security, but leaving the diplomats behind?
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