The brass could have consulted the Pakistanis in advance

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2002)

Synchonic "The answer is that political considerations intruded on military necessity--one can only be outraged that the U.S. Army had to borrow armored vehicles from Pakistan to go in an get our men trapped by thousands of hostiles with guns. Typical Clinton Administration fecklessness--though there is a modicum of justice that the then Defense Secretary, Les Aspin, it is said, lost his job over this."
Or, since it was a multinational operation, the US could have requested armor support from the Pakistanis in advance. Seems it was poor planning by the brass. I don't know at what level the mission was proposed, planned and approved so I don't know how much blame to assign to Clinton.