Originally Posted by Rochard

You clearly have zero understanding of how military tactics work in these circumstances.

While I was in the Marines this was one of the things we trained for, and later on one of the things I taught - entering a US Embassy under fire and taking control. We had mock embassies set up at "Combat Town" on board Camp Lejeune. An attacking force of hundreds of men using trucks with mounted machine guns wasn't even something we considered.

You cannot send in C130s and airplanes to bomb. We are talking about a sovereign nation here, and the embassy was located in the second largest city in Libya. You cannot take a terrorist incident and immediately escalate into an act of war.

Also, there was US Special Forces some four hundred miles away - In Italy, across the Mediterranean Sea. What exactly did you want them to do? Parachute in? Helicopter in? (I did mention the trucks with the mounted machines right?) The only way for them to go in would be with a secured landing area (with protection guaranteed by the Libyans, good fucking luck!) and then have them fight their way in... Only to have more of the same: They would still be vastly out numbered and out gunned.

So immediately military options were completely off the table.

The article itself was clearly very well written. It quotes another source (RadicalIslam.org, not even a fucking newspaper but a website) and mentions "two large warehouse-type buildings" associated with the embassy. The article quotes another article that says the "the warehouses were probably looted" and then "We do not know what was there". So your article quotes some website that claims buildings that might have been associated with the US embassy might have been looted but no one knows what was in those buildings. In others, not an ounce of fact. For all we know these buildings had pillows stuff with feathers in them.