"As a result, we underestimated the..."
What you mean 'we', white man ?
Posted on 05/14/2013 12:19:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
THE spectacle in Washington over the terrorist attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, is focusing on the wrong thing.
The biggest American failure wasn’t in the tactical mistakes about security at the diplomatic mission where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. It lay in thinking that an intervention in Libya would be easier or less costly than it has proved to be — a judgment that led the United States to think it could go in light, get out fast and focus on the capital, Tripoli, without paying enough attention to Libya’s eastern provinces, where the rebellion began as a call for a constitution and increased civil liberties.
As a result, we underestimated the regional importance of Libya before the West intervened; misunderstood Benghazi’s importance in stabilizing postwar Libya; and left ourselves unprepared for the ability of terrorist groups to undermine advances toward civil authority there. In short, if the United States and its NATO and Arab allies had learned from the Iraq experience and implemented a full, well-supported plan for Benghazi, covering everything from technical assistance to security and staffing, we might have averted the attack and the momentum it has given to extremists.
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Hmmm....
Great. Downplaying lies, deceit and leaving Americans to die by saying the Obama Admin is a bunch of geopolitical dolts.
Hmm, Maybe it’s just me but I would have thought the idea of arming Jihadists that are hell bent on killing us would have been a pretty good idea of things you SHOULDN’T do.
Let’s ask Ambassador Stevens for his assessment?
Why were 30+ CIA operatives in Benghazi?
OK Ethan, cash your check.
Agreed. It looks as thought the NY Slimes has decided a bunch of mumbo jumbo political rhetoric that means absolutely nothing is the way to rescue their boy Hussein.
Ethan Chorin, a consultant, was a Foreign Service officer in Libya from 2004 to 2006 and is the author of “Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution.”
That is my question also....I have my speculations also.
First I ever heard of Benghazi being the cultural center of Libya.
"As a result, we underestimated the..."
What you mean 'we', white man ?
Sadly, he's unavailable for comment.
The “this middle east thingy is just too confusimified for Obama’s brain” excuse.
LOL. Not blame. DEEP blame. That’s Deep Throat’s cheap sister.
But they all believed the nonsense that the Islamic Spring was going to be a beautiful thing.
Morons.
Seems to me that Mitt Romney and the RNC dropped the ball on this one. Had Mitt come out with indignation, and more aggressively, it would have put Obama on the defensive. He didn’t during that debate. Monica Crowley also helped, but it shows that Romney missed the golden opportunity to slam dunk this.
As David French writes, Obama betrayed us. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348262/obama-legacy-betrayal
True, the Hurricane came in, and then you also have The Govenor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, making the president out to be a saviour.
I now agree with Huckabee, who is the first to predict the impeachment and collapse of this presidency because of this. It will happen, as it did with Nixon.
Now as then, people of the president’s party will eventually step in and demand it. This is not a Monica Lewinsky thingy. This is what all of us here have been talking and writing about for years.
The man should never have been president. He was not worthy of the job.
The goal was to gain control of the Libyan National Bank.
Our military resources were used by the FedRes to gain access to the gold kept in that bank.
It’s ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.
Funneling arms (esp. Libyan MANPADS) to the Moslem Botherhood in Syria of course!
Hussein may have dodged a few tough questions. I wouldn't exactly call it 'momentum'.
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