TheBlaze Books Give You More!

CommentsDisplaying nov_284's 10 most recent comments.

• Panetta Justifies Benghazi Response Time: ‘You Cannot Simply Call and Expect Within 2 Minutes to Have a Team in Place’

  February 3, 2013 at 9:15pm

  In reply to nov_284.

  I agree completely. If the Marine Expeditionary Unit in the area hadn’t been tasked to go somewhere else, this could have gone differently. Ever wonder how it is that when the SHTF there are Marines there within hours? Those miserable dudes get stuffed into the bowels of an LHD class ship, fed rotten food, denied access to the topside so they don’t get any sunlight, breathing nasty, foul air, taking showers with the crappiest low flow shower heads imaginable. When they get called in, it’s a synch that they can’t be driven back because they’d cut their own mother’s throat to get off that boat and stay off of it. The willingly subject themselves to this treatment so that they can be local when something goes down and they can intervene to protect America’s interests with tanks, apcs, assault helos and fighter planes. Unfortunately, our fearless leader has discovered that the media will support him by saying that fewer people were deployed the sandbox when people that were deployed to the sandbox specifically go home and are replaced by Marines that are on a MEU, but not specifically earmarked for that conflict. So it’s good politics to send the Marine in and play games with the safety of Americans abroad.

• Panetta Justifies Benghazi Response Time: ‘You Cannot Simply Call and Expect Within 2 Minutes to Have a Team in Place’

  February 3, 2013 at 8:09pm

  That’s what a MEU is supposed to be for. They’re supposed to be rapid response units with the air and ground assets organic to the detachment, sufficient to fight a small war unsupported, or, if necessary, to be the first stroke of a larger conflict. Libya, anybody? Instead they get used as theatre reserves for an under-manned war effort or two (makes for a more exciting float, but that’s not what they’re supposed to be there for) and they’re not there when we need them.