
Benghazi Hero Says If Trump Were President At That Time His Team Would Have Been Saved.

Moments ago In a new Op-Ed for Fox News, Benghazi hero and survivor Mark “Oz” Geist argues Trump’s decisive action dealing with the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq would have saved his team that included 4 Americans who were killed.

Last night in Toledo, President Trump discussed the decisive action he took to support the U.S. embassy in Iraq after they were attacked.

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Acccording Geist, the attack on our embassy in Baghdad and President Trump’s reaction are in no way comparable to the events in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.


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I fought to defend the American diplomatic post and CIA annex in Benghazi for more than 13 hours against a determined, organized assault by dozens of Al Qaeda fanatics armed with belt-fed machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and heavy mortars.

The Obama administration’s mishandling of this attack which resulted in the first murder of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty since the 1970s was a far cry from the Trump administration’s decisive response to threats against our embassy in Iraq.

Now the basic facts should be enough to dismiss any serious comparison. My team and I were told to “stand down” no fewer than three times in the face of what the media later called “protesters” even as Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were being killed and maimed by the terrorists.


No U.S. military reaction force was sent, despite our numerous requests for help. Only by our own tenacity and courage were more than 30 Americans able to escape with our lives.

However Comparing that to the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. When Iran-backed militias and their supporters stormed the embassy grounds and Iraqi forces refused to do their duty to defend American lives and property,

President Trump reacted forcefully. In roughly the same amount of time it took to the Obama administration to get an unarmed American drone over our heads as we fought for our lives in Benghazi, more than 100 U.S. Marines were on the scene to defend the Baghdad embassy and two Apache helicopter gunships were in the air asserting American sovereignty.

In no small part due to that decisive reaction, no Americans were seriously hurt in the attack.


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The comparison breaks down even further when you look beyond the events of the day and examine the longer-term strategies employed by each administration. The difference comes down to one thing: leadership. President Trump is demonstrating bold and effective leadership, whereas President Obama showed only weakness and cowardice.

I’ve learned a thing or two about leadership, not only over my 12-year career in the United States Marine Corps, but also as a police chief and as a private security contractor working around the world defending American lives in far-flung hostile countries, where our safety depended on competent leadership on the ground as well as from Washington.

Effective leadership often goes unnoticed by those serving under it. It simply makes the task at hand look easy, natural, and uncontroversial.


When leadership is lacking, however, its absence is frighteningly apparent. Failures of leadership cost lives and leave subordinates scrambling to cover for the leadership that was needed. That’s what we saw after Benghazi, as senior Obama administration officials insisted for days that the Al Qaeda attack, which was clearly planned and organized to kill Americans on the anniversary of 9/11, was a spontaneous protest in reaction to an amateurish “Islamophobic” YouTube video that hardly anyone had seen.

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Benghazi Hero Says If Trump Were President At That Time His Team Would Have Been Saved.

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