if assad uses those weapons on its own people this is costly for us to get involved and diplomatically complicated. it s very complicated mostly because you are going into if you were to send ground forces or troops into such a situation, it is a very densely populated area. this is not an easy mission. it s one of the reasons that the military has been very reluctant to get involved in syria whereas many people have compared it to libya saying why would you get involved to overthrow colonel qaddafi when you don t get involved to overthrow president assad. one of the reasons is that syria is a very different landscape, it s very densely populated. it is not easy for any forces, any foreign forces to operate there. that s not to say that they that they may not be military contingency planning but it is not a easy situation to waltz into. people may be wondering because you said, jennifer,
they will be emboldened by this. at this point nobody s fighting them. we reti fighting each other. not only that, the fbi gets in there three week later to check it out. colonel david hunt and kt mcfarland, aas pleasure having you with us. coming up, congressman peter king still fuming over benghazi. later, it s the holiday. i bet you can t top this random act of kindness. [ male announcer ] are you considering a new medicare plan?
for your latest headlines, log onto foxnews.com. so who was responsible for the security failure that led to the four americans losing their lives in benghazi? if you believe the state department i it s anyone but th. with me is national security analystri k.t. mcfarland and fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt. who is driving the blame game here? i don t know i know who i believe, but it s going like this right now in washington. yeah. i don t think there s any independent act. it s t clear that it s white hoe driven. it s not state department or secretary of defense or cia. this is a white house driven scenario that s happened since the 11th. and kt, you re the person, you re our person, our man, our woman who was in washington during preps for these kinds of
example. on iran she waited 17 months before she tried to offer any resolution. the draft resolution put forward by the united states was actually taken out the of her hands. the state department, secretary clinton, actually let s somebody else negotiate it. we ve not seen another resolution in 30 months, so she s passed one resolution and with that one resolution, she lost more support than all of the previous five resolutions combined. you know what s interesting, i have those 30 reasons in the article that you wrote, richard, about why she shouldn t be secretary of state, and i think number five is interesting, that she failed to speak out when colonel qaddafi s libya was elected to the un human rights commission. why even make friends? what s the point? well, see, when you go there, there s all sorts of groupings, the africa group or the arab group. all these ambassadors are looking to give you dinner party invites, and if you want to be the popular ambassador, then you
that s not what we are talking about here. correct. i think the correct term for it is embassy property it wasn t fortified. libya october 20th, 2011, colonel qaddafi is captured and killed by rebels in his home town. with qaddafi gone even stevens officially named ambassador. he will come to benghazi often. the state department upgrades the physical security at that property. charlene lamb of the state department. we extended the height of the owed outer wall with mason ry concrete barbed wire. inside the large residents fortified safe haven is built. you enter through a heavy metal grill with several locks on it. tell me about the safe haven. bars on the windows. building a jail cell you are going to get inside. it s a delay until you can get