Benghazi is going nowhere, because it CAN’T go anywhere.
First, nobody cares about it. In a society like this one, that’s important.
But secondly, and most importantly, a decision to commit ground forces to urban combat in a third world sh*thole like Benghazi is ENTIRELY discretionary, and rests ENTIRELY within the powers and responsibilities of the Commander-in-Chief.
It’s not “treason” and it’s not “dereliction of duty”, because Obama had no duty in the first place - not constitutional, not statutory, not nothing.
Now, I grant you that his responses were chickensh*t and Muslim-loving, and his lies about it were entirely in keeping with his incompetence and his low character.
But we had a plebiscite on his cowardly, Muslim-loving, incompetent low character ass less than two months later, and he won. He won quite handily, despite what has been obvious about him since 2009.
So, it’s over. Gowdy didn’t discover anything because there was nothing to discover. If the American people, acting through their representatives in Congress assembled, cared about this in the least, “Obama” wo;uld have been impeached and convicted for high crimes and misdemeanors a long time ago. But the American people care about this not at all.
It’s awful, it’s embarrassing. It’s even shameful.
But it’s over, and it has been over for years.
Not sure I entirely agree. Our embassy was under attack and the ambassador was in danger of being killed or captured. That alone should have been enough to commit troops. There was a clear objective and in our national interest to do so.
I tend to agree...but no consequences for deliberately lying about the ‘video’? They completely fabricated a falsehood and reported it to the people, congress, the media, etc. Its just wrong.
I agree with much of what you said, but this was an attack on American territory, wasn’t it?
That was a real question, by the way. I assume we still regard the consulate in a foreign country as American soil, but that might be “outdated” thinking.
I do tend to regard this incident more like the Iranians seizing the Embassy in Tehran than the embassy being bombed by a car bomb or shot up by a bunch of guys in a truck.
This was a sustained attack over time where action could have made a difference.