[marron]

This is turning into a Monty Python sketch.

Still, none of this changes the fact that the president watched them die in Benghazi and refused them help until they were well and thoroughly dead. All they needed was for one of those drones to be launched armed. Help wasn’t hours away, it was right there.

[3Fingas]

This is almost too weird even for a Monty Python sketch.

[lonevoice]

Still, none of this changes the fact that the president watched them die in Benghazi and refused them help until they were well and thoroughly dead. All they needed was for one of those drones to be launched armed. Help wasn’t hours away, it was right there.

Yes, and somehow we have to get back to that basic truth. I fear that we're being lead down the National Enquirer path, littered with shiny objects. Even Fox News is spending more and more time on the Patraeus story and increasingly less on the four betrayed Americans abandoned to die.

[piasa]

Nor does it change the fact that the administration instead of providing security for the mission, withdrew security over the objections of virtually all concerned.