Make no mistake about it. We had more than enough assets in the area to defeat the attack and rescue our consulate personnel. There was a conscious decision not to do so. That decision could have made only at the very top.
Here is my question then: Which of the dead would the Executive Branch be happy is dead, and why?
Less a matter of being happy and more a matter of not wanting to anger the Arabs/ Africans. Them not being angry is worth as many American lives as it takes.
But JB says it's nothing, so nothing it must be.