Veterans for Peace recently reported: "Spouses and parents of USAF, US Army, USMC, and USN servicemembers in the Middle East told of plummeting morale, lack of basic supplies, and attacks on US military bases that are not reported in the US media."

#2

"The Senile Satan."

Ha!

Memnun, Persians, I shall use that in future OPs.

#27

I remember in 2012 the Republicans in Congress raking Democrat USSECSTATE Hillary Clinton over white hot coals because of Benghazi, a failed covert CIA plan to secure loose weapons from the tribes of Libya, an oil-rich country which fell into complete anarchy after Muammar Khaddafi was toppled and executed.

To score political points, Republicans exposed that CIA mission which US Army General "Betray-Us" also idiotically disclosed.

"Argh! Why didn't you call for airstrikes from Aviano AB in Italy? Pflargh!!"

Because the USAF didn't know about the secret CIA mission and the USAF would have to get permission from Italy -- a NATO ally -- to use their airspace for a non-NATO mission.

And the CIA contractors would order a "danger-close" strike on their own position? Were they on the same frequency as the USAF? The outnumbered USG personnel were in a pitched battle with the eneny and the US Envoy -- a personal friend of the Clintons -- was whacked.

And by the time the F16s would get there, the fire-fight would have been over.

The Republicans made it sound as if this tribal attack in Libya took place in Iraq where the USAF would have intervened on behalf of USSSOF personnel on a mission.

And POTUS Barack Obama (D) was re-elected in Nov 2012, so the GOP smear campaign failed, try as they did.

Howdy Derek Wildstar:

You said it.

And those well-trained, heavily-armed, and robustly-paid CIA personnel knew what they were getting into: An immature security and communications environment in an anarchic tribal hotspot with no air support or a magical insertiom of USSOF one radio call away.