Apparently....to many RWrs:
1. There is no such thing as Fog of War
2. The U.S. military has Star Trek type Transporters to beam rescuers anywhere instantly to save the day....and the President forbade them from being used.
No ma'am. We do not have transporters and no one is saying we do.
What we DO know is that those men held off their attackers for hours. A lucky break, a misfire of an attackers RPG...and maybe they could have retreated to a third location....perhaps that RPG would have missed the rooftop....it wound up that the attack was in two phases......with a period of time between them....what if that period of time was 2 hours longer?
When the order to stand down was given, no one knew who was alive and who was still in harms way.
And most important....no one knew when the last Amereican would be killed.
Our government did not even try to rescue them.
FEST takes 4 hours to deploy....another 8 hours to get there.......how did we know the standoff would not last 12 hours?
Its easy to say "there was no time" after the fact.
But no one knew how much time was left when the order to stand down was given.
Even YOU should be asking why that is.