Judging by the comments left on the Business Insider piece this news comes from lefties think our military running a rescue operation to get our fellow Americans out of a bad situation is tantamount to a war crime. Here’s the news:
There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed to an emergency situation where they will not be able to talk to their spouses or families.
That alert just went out, says our source.
This senior Marine told our source that the Pentagon will deploy “multiple platoons” to Egypt over the next few days and that the official reason will be ‘to assist in the evacuation of US citizens.”
Our source was told that “the chances they were going over there went from 70% yesterday to 100% today.”
Now an example of comments. When someone claimed this would look bad to “the Arab street’ I asked the question of whether or not that even mattered. Someone calling themselves Popded responded thusly:
@Rob Taylor:
“The government should ensure the safety of Americans no matter the consequences.”
a) If the US government feels like saving American lives it should start from the hundreds of thousand homeless people it has. better yet, removing all US military personnel (government- and private-sponsored) from all the countries it has them scattered to protect not freedom or democracy as they so claim but the interests of big business, corporations and conglomerates…
b)”No matter the consequences” sums up the reason all the people of the world (including quite a few Americans) hate the U.S. . According to your statement its OK for a complication that could lead to open conflict in the already war-torn Middle East that could cause loss-of-life a million-fold to save a couple of ignorant bozos that stuck around a country in such great turmoil (and to a great extent because of US intervention) just because they are oblivious to the plight of the local people, tucked away in their magic money-bubble. Obviously you believe thousands of lives (Egyptian in this case, or even Israeli or Palestinian) are inferior to a single US-born person’s…Let me give you some info: Inequality is what caused this explosion not only in Egypt but also in Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, and more are soon to come. Try thinking on that with a few brain-cells (if you have any to spare beyond repeating the government’s position like a retarded mynah bird)…
c) If I had a kid studying abroad, or a wife who was a reporter I would call them back home before the government ensured their safety just as it did with the reporters blown to smithereens for kicks by a US chopper in Iraq (which we know of only because of the wikileaks guys that the far-right and US Government want to execute without trial)…
Get that? In essence he or she is saying that Americans should be left to die because his lefty ideology says so. There are dozens of comments just like that there. Read through them and see what your fellow Americans think of college students and researchers trapped in a bad situation.
I point this out because “Popded” and his ilk are your neighbors. These are the people who you and your family will be surrounded by during an emergency. Their hearts are full of hatred for their fellow Americans for a multitude of reasons and when the same pressures that brought down Egypt and Tunisia come to your city what do you think they’ll be willing to do? To appease a radicalized Muslim population they are advocating letting Americans die even though that action will have no concrete benefits to them personally, what will they do when they haven’t eaten in a couple of days.
Stock up on weapons. The enemy lives among us.