re: #80 Targetpractice

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.

That’s why I said the jet would ditch in the Med. That would keep the locals away from it or the pilot. But I was just wargaming the scenario out.