There was Marine FAST detachment less than an hour away. They were primed and ready to go, and they would have quite handily done the job. Your attempt at confusing the issue fails.
Yes, there are a lot of missions in the area, buty fortunately we no longer live in the age of sail, so MOST of those missions you listed are reachable within two hours from the quick reaction forces that are based in the Med and Diego Garcia etc.
She doesn't want to hear that my friend. All she wants to do is defend that fuck and his State Department and tell us that they were dead no matter what.
Apparantly she has very little faith in our armed services. Armed services that have been fighting these dirtbags since 9-11.
And the next time there are demonstrations outside of one of our embassies....
When do you call the Marines in? What do you tell them to do?
If a demonstration is just a demonstration and our embassy isn't coming under attack then you watch whats going on. You certainly don't call in the marines. But you knew that.
If our embassy is attacked and the hosting country who's obligated to defend our embassy stands around with fingers up ass then we have every right to defend our embassy or consulate.
What would you tell the marines to do? Stand around and look smart in their uniforms??