You nailed it. He could show REAL leadership and I'd take away my hat if he would come out and take responsibility for failing these people BEFORE, DURING and AFTER this. Own it! He is the one responsible afterall!!! Damn it!
Hey craner, it is ironic that you criticize President Obama on foreign embassy security and have the ignorance to wear a Ronald Reagan Avatar.
Your idol, Ronbo the actor was the biggest failure in embassy security in American history.
The Beirut Fiasco -- Reagan Decides to Intervene in Lebanon's Civil War
In the spring of 1983, President Reagan and his team of hawkish advisors decided to intervene in Lebanon's civil war on behalf of Christian President Amin Gemayel. On March 24, the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit was dispatched to Lebanon where Muslim and Christian factions were fighting.
On April 28, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a van loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives into the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people died, including seventeen Americans.
Four months later (September 6, 1983), two U.S. Marines were killed by rocket and mortar fire. At an October 19 press conference, Reagan was asked about the safety of the Marines in Beirut to which he replied, "We're looking at everything that can be done to try and make their position safer. We're not sitting idly by."
A few days later (October 23), another suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the headquarters building of the First Battalion, 8th Marines, located at the Beirut airport. The resulting explosion killed 241 American servicemen.
Three months later, the Reagan administration removed American troops from Beirut and put them aboard offshore ships. Reagan described the retreat as taking "decisive new steps." Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes explained: "We don't consider this a withdrawal but more of a redeployment."
The deaths lie on him and the defeat in Lebanon lies on him and him alone.... The trouble with this fellow is he tries to be tough rather than smart."
--House Speaker Tip O'Neill on President Reagan, April 1984