More Cocktail Courage and Dinner-table Heroism

It is a complete and total embarassment to journalism and the Arizona Republic that Doug MacEachern's partisan "analysis" of the incident in Libya got published. We have known for a day or two now thanks to the New York Times and Associated Press that America responded immediately to the attacks in Libya. In addition to the fog of war, the Obama administration's response to this incident has been muddled by CIA Director David Patraeus trying to keep it secret that there is a CIA combat force in Libya. The CIA combat force responded within 25 minutes to the attack on the Benghazi consulate. The Americans at the consulate were already dead when they arrived. The two Americans killed later weren't State Department security personnel. They were CIA combat team members who were killed by a hit and run mortar attack. The CIA took command of a predator drone from the Air Force immediately when the consulate was attacked and had it over Benghazi in a hour, but the attack was over and there was nothing to shoot at. A very large CIA combat commando force, not State Department security as MacEachern calls it, arrived from Tripoli in six hours and evacuted the surviving Americans and the Benghazi CIA combat team. Now that the political opportunists in the Cocktail Courage and Dinner-table Heroism crowd have forced the CIA to reveal the presence of its combat force in Libya, American servicemen are in danger more than ever. Thanks a lot, guys.