Who made that call? Biden?
I bet there are alot of people in Europe that want to kick Obama & Biden's ass for that decision.
Six million Syrian refugees had already fled before the US got involved. Mehr Assad had dropped thousands of barrel bombs on civilians.
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Wrong.
The US was ALWAYS involved and was responsible for STARTING the whole civil war in Syria.
It was Hillary's "Arab Spring" concept to wipe out all the legitimate governments in the Mideast, like Saddam, Qaddafi, Assad, Morsi, etc.
Nope.. Severe drought settled on Syria in 2005. The farmers abandoned their farms and moved to the cities with high unemployment and the oil sector finally collapsed. Mehr Assad is in charge and he's as savage as his father Hayfez was. I am surprised you don't know anything about Syria or its history of sectarian strife and assassinations.
Assad had nothing to do with those problems, and starting a civil war can not possibly help those economic problems.
But the rebels suddenly had expensive weapons and new Toyota trucks.
Who was funding them?
Who was Ambassador Stevens meeting in Benghazi, and what was in the CIA annex warehouse there?
The ambassador had dinner with the Turkish envoy, but he was in town to dedicate the new joint venture in emergency services between Mass General and Benghazi Hospital the next morning.
Assad arrested and tortured the schoolboys .. that's when all hell broke loose all over the Syria.
The annex was a communication operation to identify which tribes might support a return to the Idris constitution.
I don't buy that for a second.
Benghazi was much too dangerous, full of al Qaeda and ISIS.
The only reason Stevens could possibly have for being in Benghazi, so far from protection, would be to meet with Syrian rebels or those who could be recruited to fight somewhere, as the US wanted.
It was an obvious risk and would only have been done for some covert reason.
Nor does the US need a communications operations in Benghazi.
Radio can be done anywhere, or from satellite even.
The CIA annex warehouse could only have been for things like weapons, vehicles, and money.
That should not have been there.
And by the way, there are NO tribes in Benghazi. The coast had all been taken over by dangerous refugee groups.
The tribes in Libya live further south in the hill country.
And Stevens was not at all interested in the tribal leaders, who do not like the US.