Patsy? No.
The article depicts the battle between misguided ideaology and sane reality.
The pacifists actually believe that the key to peace is maintaining peaceful actions and outlook. They got 4 good guys killed for such insanity.
The deaths occurred in Benghazi and should have been at the Ivory Tower in Foggy Bottom
State Department is highly female oriented, gay oriented and liberal oriented. You tell this from their top people and their spokesmen and spokeswomen such as Victoria Nuland. They have LBGT celebration days in DC and other time wasting nonsense.
All the above are in la-la land where they never want to offend their Mooslim hosts by having a large security contingent. Most Muslim nations ate offended by lots of armed Marines etc. This is a large reason why our Ambassadorial security was so thin in Libya. State Department was engaged in their usual fantasy games that Libya was orderly, safe enough to not need more security. Plus I’ll bet State is mostly responsible for no rescue attempt at Bengahzi. Them and Obama’s re-election commitee