Yes, blaming this on the CIA does nothing to help Obama. There was way too much going on for weeks and even months in advance to justify leaving personnel and a sensitive facility sitting there virtually unguarded (except for Libyan personnel connected to Al Qaeda, something that I imagine must have been known to the CIA).
It was all part of Obama’s either starry-eyed and incompetent or well-thought out and evil plan to “normalize” relations with our enemies, open our hands to show them that we came in peace and trusted them implicitly, and hand over our power to them.
This goes way beyond just the “botched operation” that Obama is trying to portray now, and that’s what he is desperately trying to cover up. Well, he only has a couple of more days to do it, so unless somebody - such as Romney - starts asking questions about Obama’s whole strategy and intention in the first place, he’ll probably get away with it.
BTW, I know that Romney is not going to touch this issue or get into the nuts and bolts of it at this point in the game, but it would be nice if he at least said that our entire policy approach should be reviewed in light of it, and that he would address this issue immediately upon taking office.
The more I consider these reports, the history of the players, and their ways of thinking, I am led to a new discernment between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ in our present politic.
Those with worldly power in the ‘liberal’ camp have premised their thinking upon an antiChristian mindset. They lean towards relative morality, do not consider absolute truth to be obtainable, and recognize power in their lust for approbation. Consequently, when they face evil, they do not consider it something to be punished, removed, nor criminalized, but instead something to be controlled consistent with their objectives.
Conservatives, while not always Christian, in our politic tend to value the Judeo-Christian culture. When facing evil, we tend to believe it is to be held in control by legal systems, enforcement, adjudication, and appropriate execution of judgment. We believe the only way to not do a wrong thing is to do a right thing in the right manner. This implies justice isn’t righteous unless properly administered with righteous judgment.
The actions of this Administration, and the Clinton empire, and Democratic Socialism in general, didn’t treat evil as criminal, but treats the management of evil akin to controlling the Mafia families from the inside. Instead of identifying terrorists, capturing or killing them, then prosecuting them for crimes, they believe terrorists simply need to be controlled by other controllable terrorist groups. Islamic fundamentalism, by this model, then becomes controllable by other Islamic ‘denominations’ more controllable by their empire.
These types of perspectives don’t fight terrorism, other than those flavors which don’t support the liberal mindset.
They place their own members in various power structures to promote a larger scale effort, but fundamentally void of justice and righteous judgment.
We error in confusing their perspective with one valuing Christian culture. They don’t. They simply will degenerate into lower levels of corruption, condoning even more evil consequences.