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Originally Posted by Stargazer
Panetta just said that some of the FAST teams did not have 'air lift' capability. If that is in fact true, I find that surprising. Of course, they immediately took measures following the attack to resolve this issue.
I am so over the horsesh#@.
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I don't know what a FAST team is and don't care. If he's talking the CIA teams they are civilians, period. There were hundreds of islamic combatants on the ground. No FAST team would ever go into a situation knowing some of them WILL be killed. The Special Operations CIF's would, that's their job. They could have jumped in, secured the Americans and defended until relieved. That's what we're trained to do, recover Americans. But hundreds of islamists would have been killed had the CIF's arrived. Picture that on the news and the uprising afterwards.
No "airlift" is a joke...... a poor excuse from civilians. So what you cant get out, secure the good guys and defend yourselves until the cavalry arrives.
CIA is civilians, they CAN quit at anytime, no law or oath holds them to serve. No gov civilian is going to go to a gunfight knowing they might in fact die.
This is your elected civilian government and they really don't care.