Pressed on why embassies allegedly targeted by Iran's Gen. Soleimani weren't alerted or evacuated, national security adviser Robert O'Brien: 'We're not going to cut and run every time somebody threatens us...we're not going to have another Benghazi.'
ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos pressed O'Brien on why the U.S. did not evacuate embassies given the claim that Soleimani had been planning to attack"four embassies."
"We're not going to cut and run every time someone threatens us," the national security adviser said, citing reinforcements to the embassy in Baghdad. "We're not going to have another Benghazi," he added."We're not going to have another Tehran embassy takeover where our diplomats are taken hostage." National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, listens as President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops in Washington, Jan. 8, 2020.
National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, listens as President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops in Washington, Jan. 8, 2020."If we didn't engage in this operation and the attacks had taken place and many Americans would have been killed, there would've been plenty of people that would have criticized us for not having disrupted the attacks," he said.
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