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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
A couple dozen trained security forces could easily, very easily, have turned this into a turkey shoot for the Americans.
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Perhaps, but I don't believe there was ever a request for this. The only I'm aware of was to extend a 16 member security team based in Tripoli. At best this may have added one or two members to the team in Benghazi I'd assume with only light arms.
With your field experience do you think this would have made a substantial difference against a much larger force (estimated at 125 men) with heavier weapons in an unhardened building?
Obama has said it was a screw up, but there's a big difference between a screw up and a cover up.
-spence
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