re: #79 Dark_Falcon

There is never any guarantee any airstrike will succeed, since Mr. Murphy can always turn up at the wrong time. The reason would have been to eliminate the enemy’s mortar and hopefully give our own people a chance to regroup. To be fair, I don’t actually support the idea that such a course would have been wise.

It would have been asinine, as by the time any fighter could arrive in the area, the survivors would have already been moved out of the annex and to the airport. Instead of dealing with a government eager for us to accept their assurances that they had no part in the attack, we’d instead have a very livid Libyan president demanding to know why a US fighter jet violated sovereign Libyan airspace to engage targets that were no longer there. We’d have to recover the pilot, assuming he hadn’t been captured, and have to send in a team to recover or destroy anything valuable from the jet before the locals could pick it clean.