I asked this question back in September. We could have had fighters over that beleaguered consulate within two hours. Back when I was in USAF we kept two jet fighters on 10 minute alert. Loaded, fueled, armed, pilots standing by in operations, they could be wheels up airborne within ten minutes of the sirens going off. Inside of two hours, they could be 1200 miles away, on internal fuel and drop tanks, no tankers. We have bases and aircraft carriers all over the Mediterranean, we could have had fighter support over Benghazi. Jet fighters, low overhead, are very intimidating to spontaneous demonstrators, trained Al Quada terrorists, just about anybody.
Some how, nobody in our gallant press corp has brought this issue up since last September.
Until just today. Someone on Fox News said the issue of air support would be brought up on Wednesday.
About time.
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