The decision not to dispatch troops was made by the military chain of command, not by Clinton or anyone who reported to her. Superior officers decided this team was needed to help evacuate the embassy in Tripoli, which was seen as a potential target for a Benghazi-style attack.
The Pentagon has concluded that the team, in any event, could not have arrived in Benghazi in time to make a difference. Hicks testified that he disagrees. It is difficult not to feel his pain. But it is also difficult, frankly, to believe that he knows more about deploying troops than do the professionals.
THE RESPONSE TO THIS SHOULD BE WHAT JONAH GOLDBERG SAID:
Even if that were true, it would still be a self-serving falsehood.
If you see a child struggling in the ocean, you have no idea how long she will flail and paddle before she goes under for the last time. The moral response is to swim for her in the hope that you get there in time. If you fail and she dies, you can console yourself that you did your best to rescue her.
But if you just stand on the beach and do nothing as the child struggles for life, saying, “Well, there’s just no way I can get to her in time,” it doesn’t really matter whether you guessed right or not. You didn’t try.
The White House and State Department insist they guessed right, as if that somehow absolves them of responsibility. They would have sent help if they could have, they claim, but they simply weren’t ready to deploy forces on September 11, the one day of the year you’d expect our military and intelligence agencies to be ready for trouble in the Middle East, particularly given that before his murder, Stevens warned of security problems in Benghazi.
But we know the administration ordered others who were willing, able, and obliged to come to the consulate’s rescue to “stand down.” They in effect told the lifeguards, “Don’t get out of your chairs.”
Here’s the other leftist spin ( and you will hear this repeated again and again ):
THERE WERE, in fact, tumultuous anti-American demonstrations taking place in cities throughout the Muslim world because of the video.
President Obama labeled the Benghazi assault an act of terror almost immediately — as Mitt Romney learned in the second presidential debate — but it was hard to imagine that the attack was completely unrelated to what was happening in Cairo, Tunis, Khartoum and Jakarta.
careful with that axe eugene
Oh I’d say the Republicans know just where the witch is in this episode.
The ComPost, LASlimes, MSLSD, NYSlimes, etc. all have the exact same talking points...
Axelrod had a very, very long conference call with all the Media heads last night to get the messaging right.
Left for dead b/c of the election.
Is using ‘witch hunt’ politically correct? Isn’t that implying that it’s always women? There are warlocks. We no longer have all female named hurricanes. There aren’t anymore freshmen. They need to come up with a non-gender _____________ hunt. If they’re really true believers in their militant non-gender chit. I think I will write and complain...
Problem is, this time there really are witches.
And they didn’t turn anyone into a newt - they killed them through inaction and treachery.
No, Eugene. We’ve found the witch.. the key is aiming the water bucket. Then, the witch will know what the “difference” is.
Tool.
And she did it knowing there was no protest in Benghazi.
As for the author he nver considered the possibility that the rioting and protesting elsewhere was all a diversion to insure that an obscure little diplomatic station - not even an embassy- would be a wide open, easy target since the admin -which new about the protests in advance- would divert resources to "more important" embassies and away from Benghazi? Did the admin fail to respond because they were assuming Benghazi attackers were just some irate "occupy" youths in Guy Fawkes masks and the US personnel there were exaggerating the danger?
Was Eugene quiet when Harry Reid led a “taxer” conspiracy witchhunt against Mitt Romney during the 2012 election demanding to see his “papers please”?
Stalinists are funny about their mock outrage.
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.
Eugene Robinson = Juan Williams
They are twins separated at birth.
May their tongues cleave to the roofs of their lying sycophantic mouths!
Like the sun rising, sure enough there’s Token Gene carrying the water for his masters
Shouldn’t be much of a hunt. Or has Hillary gone into hiding?
Poor ol’ eugene got dropped down the affirmative action rabbit hole and met up with the red queen. His chances of recovery are nil.
Eugene: go Macaca yourself.
Such as the electric-car charging stations at the Vienna US Embassy. Priorities, priorities...
