they will indict the film maker for daring to make a movie that just might criticize mao or hillary
You can believe everything if you wish. Lets just say reasonable people in today's world should be a little cynical. And yes, I have no problem saying anything I say here to a person's face.
See, I think this is where my initial post is being misrepresented. I understand things in Cinema are embellished, dialogue, action, etc.
Do I think who was running guns? The agency? It's not hard to get stuff into Syria man, it's also not that difficult to acquire the stuff to get into Syria. It wouldn't surprise me if some of that was coming from Libya. However, there are places a hell of a lot closer to get it from. I would say the main mission was assessing the different factions and figuring out to manipulate the situation to be favorable to us both politically and financially. Remember though, you are working in multiple layers when you are working in intelligence. Something seemingly innocuous and unrelated today can pay dividends 10 years from now.
I didn't misunderstand or misrepresent your initial post. I did not respond to it in any way. I understand your comments how they were intended and have no issue.
No, it had pics of fghter jets sitting on a runway doing absolutely nothing. had a drone flying overhead relaying real time pics of what was happening.And the guy that directed Step Brothers also directed The Big Short.
That being said, I'd bet that 13 Hours had plenty of these...
I haven't seen the movie or read the book. But I have read that parts of the movie-particularly the alleged "stand-down" order directly contradict what US military leader have testified in congressional hearings. So, if that is the case, do you believe generals/admirals testifying under oath with the possibility of perjury hanging over them or some guy who made a movie who he wants as much publicity as possible. ?
The GRS guys have come outright and said they were told to stand down. This very issue was raised last week. He said she said at this point. Regardless, they were the only hope of saving the Ambassador.
Well, as I said, I haven't seen it. And I'm sure these guys acted heroically. But it is patently obvious that the right is using this movie politically as some sort of see, I told you so, Obama and Hillary got these guys killed. It's really in poor taste. But that shouldn't surprise anyone.
There were only 2 pseudo political things done in the movie. 1 was during the initial assessment of the compound and what it lacked from normal stations. The other was a brief mention that the initial Intel was this was being caused by some online video and protests were breaking out across the Middle East. This one was almost an as an aside type of discussion, one of the DoS guys said it didn't make sense because there was no protest, just an assault and that it had to be planned.
No, that's not what they're doing. What they're doing is saying "see, they clearly lied", which they clearly did.
Jesus Hubert Christ on a crutch. It is not 30 minutes from Aviano to Benghazi, it's more than two hours. And that pre-supposes that we keep aircraft sitting on the runway with weapons loaded and armed and flight crews awaiting the go order, which we do not. I read the other day how we had Special Operations troops "on the way" to Libya and that they could have arrived in time "if only ..." Yeah, if only they weren't coming from Macedonia. A bunch of you need to stop getting your ideas of how the U.S. military operates from movies and comic books.
13 hrs from first to last shot. And I know exactly how the military operates, specifically the special side of the house. As I've said, the Ambassador was screwed, only teams on the ground could have helped. The CIA complex was left to be fvcked.
It' was Sigonella Air base and it was 468 miles and they could get there in 30 mins without breaking the sound barrier. You need to get your head out of your ass when it comes to keeping our people safe. G I've been told by special ops pilots that they have flown suppression flights and they do work. Somebody fvck up by sitting on their collective asses. I'd like to know ,why?
