Buy Him A Map
Chairweasel Issa is at it again displaying his ignorance to the world.
The only commercial airliner that could have reached Benghazi in 7 hours was the Concorde SST, and it would need to stop once for fuel. Then there would have been the problem that it couldn’t land at the Benghazi airport.
Benghazi is 5,220 mile from Washington DC and a little over 400 miles from Tripoli. To be of any use you would need a C-17 with troops and equipment, and it cruises at 515 mph. It would also need to make two refueling stops to reach Benghazi, so it would be a minimum of 12 hours if there were no problems.
If there had been a Navy landing assault ship off the coast, then sending a military force would have made sense, but stripping the embassy in Tripoli of all of its security by sending it to Benghazi makes no sense. The terrorists may have been hoping for that, with Benghazi the feint to expose the real target, Tripoli.
May 13, 2013 4 Comments
Ouch!
The Pyro Poodle Puddle has been down all day, and Jane Hamsher has taken to Twitter to express her opinion of Rackspace.
I have a customer service tip for service providers – if you forget to tell people you have scheduled maintenance, when they start calling, apologize, tell them that you will have the system back up as quickly as possible, but the fire department has to declare the area safe, and none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. Do not say – wow, I thought you knew we were going to do this.
May 13, 2013 6 Comments
