I did answer, Bears. I said Cut and Run doesn't work. You wind up emboldening the enemy.
Do I need to translate that into Southie for you?.... You might as well roll over on your back and pee on yourself.
Sorry if the differences between being in the middle of a civil war, and being attacked in peacetime are lost on both of you.
How many died during the peacekeeping in Korea, the Balkans? You want to compare those to Lebanon, go for it. The highest number of deaths in Iraq came during the infighting between tribes, and not the actual invasion.
But comparing a Benghazi type attack to what happened in Beirut? Only an idiot would try to keep that line of discussion going because there's no comparison to the two situations aside from people dying.
Lots of lessons learned since then, i.e. employing more physical separation and vehicle barriers, and establishing multiple perimeters. You can see it employed in most of the embassies in hostile locations.
Recruits two weeks into boot camp could have defended Benghazi better than the local rent-a-guns did... and they'd have been a deterrent enough to make the AQ's look for a softer target. But apparently doing that in Benghazi would have offended the locals, or perhaps resulted in too many eyes to notice an illegal gun running operation...
