Posted on 05/10/2013 1:44:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.
Actually, by “those” I mean Republicans, and by “the Obama administration” I mean Hillary Clinton. The only coherent purpose I can discern in all of this is to sully Clinton’s record as secretary of state in case she runs for president in 2016.
That’s not a particularly noble way to use the deaths of four American public servants, but at least it’s understandable. Attempts to concoct some kind of sinister Whitewater-style conspiracy, however, don’t even begin to make sense.
The hearing convened Wednesday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) produced a riveting narrative of the chaotic events in Libya last September. But what was the supposedly unforgivable crime?
Did Clinton’s State Department fail to provide adequate security for the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi? In retrospect, obviously so. But the three diplomats who testified at the hearing gave no evidence that this failure sprang from anything other than the need to use limited resources as efficiently as possible.
House Republicans who voted to cut funding for State Department security should understand that their philosophy — small government is always better — has consequences. Bureaucrats have to make judgment calls. Sometimes they will be wrong.
Is the scandal supposed to be that a four-man Special Forces team was not sent from Tripoli to help defend the Benghazi compound? This is a decision that clearly still haunts and enrages Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, who sat helplessly in the capital while Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were being killed at the consulate 650 miles away.
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All too predictable. Eugene must be the world’s greatest contortionist to be able to kiss Hillary’s and Barack’s keisters simultaneously.
Gene is missing the coherent gene.
Just want to know how Robinson drew latrine detail. Because he sits on the House committee? He was nearly incoherent on Morning RINO.
In the Arm back in the day it was pounded into us that nobody gets left behind. The Obama crowd has bastardized that to screw the men, cover my behind. And that includes every swinging Johnson in the officer corps who swallowed this shit.
Wonderful Pink Floyd reference.
thanks
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Hillary is playing the role of Monica’s dress.
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