The Pentagon ordered two warships to the Libyan coast in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
One destroyer, the USS Laboon, moved to a position off the coast Wednesday, and the USS McFaul is en route and should be stationed off the coast within days. The officials said the ships, which carry Tomahawk cruise missiles, do not have a specific mission. But they give commanders flexibility to respond to any mission ordered by the president.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said: "Without commenting on specific ship movements, the United States military regularly takes precautionary steps when potential contingencies might arise in a given situation. That's not only logical in certain circumstances, it's the prudent thing to do."
There have been four destroyers in the Mediterranean for some time. These moves will increase that to five.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss troop movements.
They can get more people on a boat than into a helicopter on the Embassy roof I guess...
ReplyDeleteGunboat deplomacy at its best. Hey, why not do it on the cheap and send drones? Better bang for the buck. No muss, no fuss.
ReplyDeleteWarships; the US answer to everything.
ReplyDeleteObviously that arch enemy, Muammar Gaddafi, is behind the embassy attack and flag waiving, video equipped marines on orders from Barry Soetoro or Barack Obama or whoever he is, will save the day by killing Gaddafi again.
That's the usual response from the mericans. Send a warship. How does that work. A few radicals attack our embassy, and we shell the coats, or reduce the country to rubble? Didn't we recently overthrow the government in that country? Paybacks really are hell.!
ReplyDeletelet the false flag begin. now they will put their new afcom base in Libya. send 2 war ships to libya? why because of a few dead Americans? america provoked Islam by allowing the hate film to be shown. they would not do this with a Jewish hate film about Israel. The French and NATO destroyed the country which had the only direct democracy in the world. They also stole all their gold and money. You don't think the people are pissed? get real!
ReplyDelete"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
ReplyDeleteUSA-Israel stop before it is to late
they heard about a secret stash of Gold !!
ReplyDeleteWatch ya gonna do america? are you gonna bomb libya back to the stone age and wipe whole entire villages out by killing babies and women which in the end will result in the death of 50,000 civilian? oh i forgot you've already done that.
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