{"id":39427,"date":"2014-01-23T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39427"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:46:24","slug":"senators-failures-in-leadership-general-dempsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39427","title":{"rendered":"Senators; \u201cFailures in leadership \u2014 General Dempsey\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Washington Times<\/a>, Rowan Scarborough writes about the conclusions of six Republican Senators on the Intelligence Committee who wrote in their report that our buddy, Marty Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs is largely at fault for the failures at Benghazi because he failed to have a plan to react to terror attacks in North Africa, in general and Benghazi specifically;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tenure of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, has been marked by what we view as significant deficiencies in command,\u201d the six wrote in an addendum to the committee\u2019s Jan. 15 report on Benghazi. \u201cFrom Syria to Benghazi, there has been either a profound inability or clear unwillingness to identify and prevent problems before they arise. Given the known operating environment in Benghazi, much less North Africa, a strong military leader would have ensured there was a viable plan in place to rescue Americans should the need arise.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cGeneral Dempsey\u2019s attempts to excuse inaction by claiming that forces were not deployed because they would not have gotten there in time does not pass the common sense test,\u201d they wrote. \u201cNo one knew when the attacks against our facilities in Benghazi would end, or how aggressive the attacks would be. That is the whole point of a pre-established emergency rescue plan-so that the length of the attack alone does not dictate the rescue or survival of Americans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you guessed that Susan Collins was the only Republican on the committee to refuse to sign on with the other six, you’d be correct…you wouldn’t be surprised, but you would be correct. I’m only surprised that Dempsey didn’t blame the folks in the consulate for their cultural insensitivity which caused the attack – you know like he blamed the troops for the green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’ve already read that General Ham briefed Panetta and Dempsey on the situation in Benghazi hours before they even found time to talk to the president about the attack, so Dempsey’s excuse that there wasn’t time to respond falls flat.<\/p>\n

Mr. Panetta also deployed two special operations teams, one in Europe and one in the United States. They did not arrive in a staging area in Sigonella, Italy, until 10 hours after the crisis ended.<\/p>\n

Gen. Dempsey has said there were no combat aircraft available in time to provide help.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s kind of the point. <\/p>\n

I’m only sorry that it has taken anyone this long and the loss of lives (in Libya as well as Afghanistan) for people to begin to recognize that Dempsey is an incompetent boob. You know, like we’ve been trying to tell them for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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