Quote from trendlover:
Detailed new reporting on the attack based on a newly released CIA timeline showed Friday that no order was ever given for support to stand down, and the CIA actually did dispatch a security team to the embassy during the 90-minute assault. However, The Wall Street Journal reported that they were delayed by Libyan officials.
Excuse me? "delayed by Libyan officials"? A war had broken out at the US embassy. What kind of limp wristed, unempowered attempt to defend the US was it if some unspecified "officials" could just say "chill out" and Americans said "sure bro, it's not important enough for us to ignore you, it's just an act of war against the US".
Obama could have justified any level of force that he wanted to. He didn't do jack shit while Americans were being slaughtered live on his monitors...