HELP DENIED
CurryforAmerica.com
In
combat when a commander discovers that some of his
people are in trouble and about to be killed, he
cobbles whatever forces he has together and launches
a military effort to save them. He doesn’t wait for
orders from the White House, the Pentagon or the
State Department. Been there, done that. He doesn’t
CYA by claiming that the “situational awareness”
doesn’t provide him with a complete enough picture
of what’s going on to enable him to act.
And
he doesn’t study the problem ad infinitum trying to
learn what all of the ramifications are. Rather, at
every level, real combat commanders immediately go
to the sound of the guns, assess the tactical
situation at the point of military contact with the
enemy, and then do whatever it takes to destroy the
enemy and rescue his forces.
Everyone knew that the anniversary of 9-11 was
coming up, so all of the US Forces in the
middle-east should have been placed on alert. They
should have planned for the worst, rehearsed their
plans ad nauseum, and put their reaction forces on
high alert.
The
decision of the Obama Administration to deny our
Ambassador and his team and staff’s urgent requests
for help during the Benghazi attack on the US
Embassy tells our allies, including Israel, that
they too can expect to be denied American aid and
military assistance if they are facing a life and
death crisis.
It is
not a question of the availability of military
assets and resources, or whether our intelligence
can be relied upon to completely fill in the blanks
of the tactical situation. It is a question of
whether the Administration has the will necessary to
effectively use whatever forces and means are
available to defeat the enemy and extract our people
from a dangerous situation.
No
matter what we do or how violently we throw our
allies and Israel under the bus in our futile
efforts to “normalize” relations with the Islamic
world, we will never succeed. No matter how much we
help Islamic countries or come to their aid in times
of grave national crisis, we and the rest of the
non-Islamic world will always be “Infidels” to them.
Many
months ago when the United States first became
involved with the so-called Arab Spring movement in
Egypt, we didn’t have a clue as to what was really
happening there and what political group would
finally end up in control of the nation. But unlike
as in Bengazhi, we got involved anyway and now we
know that the extremist Arab Brotherhood is in
charge. All our efforts to bring freedom and
democracy to the middle-east crashed and burned in
the streets of Cairo.
At
least twice, in Benghazi, our US operators at the
embassy were told to “stand down,” not to help the
Ambassador and his team who were under deadly
attack. Those operators knew that standing down was
the wrong order to follow and so they ignored it
and, responding to the Ambassador’s urgent requests
for aid, went out and saved American lives, even
though they forfeited their own lives in the
process. I assume President Obama intends to
posthumously award them medals for their heroism?
Through its handling of the Benghazi action the
Obama Administration has made it clear that if
you’re serving in a military or diplomatic post
overseas or in an agency like the CIA, and if your
life is threatened or you are at risk of being
killed, or if you are about to be captured and are
in need of rescue, you can expect no help from the
Obama Administration. Therefore, our generals should
prepare, on their own, to come to the rescue of the
American troops under their command who are risking
their lives for our country.
All
we can expect from the Obama Administration are CYA
actions and statements. That’s why in this instance
CIA Director David Petraeus found it necessary to
issue a statement saying: “No one at any level in
the CIA told anybody not to help those in need.”
In
short, Director Petraeus is saying, “Standing down
may be the policy of this Administration but it’s
not my policy nor the policy of the CIA, at least
not as long as I’m Director.
From
the heroic actions of the two CIA operatives in
Benghazi, who saved American lives by ignoring
orders and acting on their own, it is obvious that
Petraeus should be setting policy and the
Administration should be following his lead.