True Story, The Details Tell It

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2016)

Well I did not rate this too high based on the acting, cinematography, and how the director unraveled the story.
It is a 10 out of 10 for informing me on what happened at Bengazi. I did not know all of this.
I have read a lot about how the state department did or did not do things correctly, but watching this it is squarely a failure of the military to support these folks. It occurred over a really long period of time and help was hours away. They should have gotten help.
I understand that the State Department/Congress did not fund the embassies around the world enough. However, the CIA local directors self preservation and the failure of the military in that part of the world to support them also shocked me.
The most shocking to me is the ambassador was delivered alive by Libyans to a Libyan hospital. What the hell!
If they ever find out that the state department ordered there to be no support or something, I would support the anger toward them but I don't think that is what happened.
The film shows that for whatever reason, confusion, misinformation, etc, the folks in Bengazi did not get the rapid, real, support they could have gotten. It is painful to watch. The state department was not in charge of a tactical circumstance like this. The military is in charge, period, unless somehow limited.
The detail about the accurate mortars, the preplanning and all is interesting, very much so, but really not part of any unraveling conspiracy in my opinion. They wanted to kill us Americans there. That is it. I am glad there was some support from the locals as it did hurt us, but also helped it appeared. Fighting a war where your allies are your enemies at times is the craziest part!
I have been to many, many US hellholes around the world in the Navy and I feel very lucky that during my military service I was not laid out without support like these folks. We in the US are so insulated from the real world where folks will kill you for your citizenship, a price on your head, well for many things that wouldn't seem worth it. I still cannot bear to watch our culture move toward "Idiocracy" when I see 3rd world cultures whose basic culture and mode of operation are that of how it was in the US 30-50 years ago. I guess I am just getting old. I am always glad to come home now from work travel abroad and that has not changed anytime in my life. I am a proud American. I see the immanent decline coming, though. If you want to know what will happen here, look at culture in Western Europe as our decline will mimic theirs though lag by years at a time.