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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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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.
he’s insinuating Hillary is a witch.
with that I agree.
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Ok, I’ll go there...
Nothing to see here because only four WHITE guys got killed...
(I just came from a local grocery store and witnesses very rude behavior from a group of young black kids...I’d be pissed if they were white, too).
Eugene Robinson = Juan Williams
They are twins separated at birth.
May their tongues cleave to the roofs of their lying sycophantic mouths!
Haha...good point!
Eugene, if you ever have or are still passing yourself off as a journalist you need to stop. When you put your crap out on front street like this you just prove to all you are nothing but a whore. Mother’s day is coming up Eugene. Do her a favor and STFU Eugene.
I like the ummagumma version the best (post 25) and thanks.
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...
Well, when you’re not in Kansas anymore, and people are dying, and there’s some weird artificial guy pulling levers behind a curtain, you need to start hunting witches.
“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.”
Then you reveal your own shallowness with your own words, Eugene. Maybe you should not be writing about stuff you don’t understand. Would that be too much to ask, or don’t you understand even that simple proposition?
That would be the annual Muslim celebration of the 9/11 attacks.
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