U.S. response to Libya attack carries risks

(CBS News) BENGHAZI, Libya - President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, was in Tripoli Wednesday. He asked Libya's president to help find those who murdered the four Americans in Benghazi.

Thursday marks one month since two Americans died in the smoke and fire of the attack on the main building of America's consulate in Benghazi. But up to 30 others escaped under armed escort that night, and made for another house nearby rented by the U.S. government.

The Americans evacuated from the consulate compound a mile away would have driven down a road and through a gate, thinking they had reached a safe haven, not dreaming that it too would soon come under attack from mortars aimed with pinpoint accuracy.

They were so accurate that two more Americans died. Security officials told CBS News it was a skilled assault that suggests it was carried out by a well-organized extremist group.

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One name tops the list - Ansar al Sharia, an armed radical group that had imposed its rough Islamic law in parts of Benghzai, but was finally chased out of town last month by angry crowds.

Colonel Hamid Hassi, a senior Libyan army officer, told CBS News he believes American intelligence knows exactly where they are.

Americans are watching Ansar al Sharia all the time, he said, from the sky.

Hassi said a drone strike would be a mistake, and that any strike would have to have to come from "our side," or there would be huge problems between the U.S. and Libya.

A unilateral U.S. strike risks turning the sorrow and sympathy that followed the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens into bitter resentment.

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[Nikos_Retsos]

We have been the hunters around the world, and now we have become both "the hunters and the hunted!" The CNN headline today is: "Obama administration's wishful thinking on terrorism, " and the British newspaper "The Telegraph" features this headline: "Diplomats cannot work out in bunkers" the chief of U.S. Security tells Congress." And Dennis Kucinich, the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district since 1997, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, and a member of the US House oversight committee, made this stunning statements during the hearing that explains it all: "If we want to stop others from killing us, we should stop overthrowing governments!" ( Deutsche Welle's DW-TV, PBS Channel 20.3 Chicago, October 10, 2012)

Obviously, Congressman Kucinich, and other Americans - along with many Americans who joined the Imran Khan march against the U.S. Predator drones in Pakistan, believe that the U.S. caused bloodshed around the world is fomenting a bloodshed backlash against itself. I don't see Mr. Kucinich's statement on in other media reports, but sticking our heads in the sand won't make the global anti-U.S. hostility disappear, nor will "bunker like U.S. embassies" will make the U.S. immune to revenge attacks. Our foreign policy definitely needs some introspection!

Schopenhauer said that "revenge is sweet," and In Middle East, the birth-place of of the biblical "An Eye-for- an Eye" standard, revenge is still the only sweetener! Nikos Retsos, retired professor

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As soon as Romney is President all will be fixed, he will send in US troops to find them... may as well start another war to keep the military spending as high as possible..