Republicans seek blame on Benghazi rather than solutions

Washington Post ^ | May 12, 2013 | Jackson Diehl

[Seizethecarp]

Remember the scandal of “the 16 words”? If you do, you’ve probably been inside the Beltway too long, literally or figuratively.

Most of what Wilson said was later proved to be grossly exaggerated, or simply false. But that didn’t stop Democrats and partisan media from devoting years to conspiracy-spinning and attempts to pin political and criminal responsibility on Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney or Karl Rove.

A decade later, we have the right’s answer to Joe Wilson: Benghazi.

The common thread here is not just the climate of intense partisanship in which media and politicians from the left dismiss what the right insists is a scandal of historic proportions — or vice-versa. It is the diversion of what should be serious, bipartisan discussion about government failings.

To be fair, the House Republican investigation of Benghazi also addresses the more substantive issues of the State Department’s failure to adequately secure its Benghazi facilities and Obama’s lack of “a credible national security posture in the region.”

[Little Ray]

Personally, I think public execution, esp. by crucifixion or impalement, are wonderful solutions. I think they would leave the State Department highly motivated to avoid making such “mistakes” again.

[Wuli]

Note to Washington Post:

You cannot begin to work on solutions, to what came of a crisis event, until you determine to whom you might correctly adress blame of what went wrong in that event. Unless you can correctly assess blame then you are not correctly addressing what needs fixing.

Instead of lecturing the GOP for trying to actually get to what with wrong in the U.S. handling of events in Benghazzi, the Washington compost should be admitting that the Whitehouse has been lying about and obfuscating the facts regarding events in Benghazzi, in order to delay and finally prevent an accurate and full accounting of to whom, and how high up the blame RIGHTLY OUGHT TO be acknowledged.

The Washington compost could improve it’s journalism standing in the U.S. by lecturing the Obama administration on this issue istead of the GOP for trying to get to the bottom of it.

[penelopesire]

Well..the WP got their marching orders from the WH. No surprises here.

Pathetic as usual.