NY Times: The Deeper Blame for Benghazi

NY Times ^ | May 13, 2013 | ETHAN CHORIN

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hmmm....

[dirtboy]

Great. Downplaying lies, deceit and leaving Americans to die by saying the Obama Admin is a bunch of geopolitical dolts.

[VRWCarea51]

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?

[Uncle Miltie]

Why were 30+ CIA operatives in Benghazi?

[stephenjohnbanker]

OK Ethan, cash your check.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Great. Downplaying lies, deceit and leaving Americans to die by saying the Obama Admin is a bunch of geopolitical dolts.

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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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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.”

A version of this op-ed appeared in print on May 14, 2013, on page A25 of the New York edition with the headline: The Deeper Blame for Benghazi.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is my question also....I have my speculations also.

[dirtymac]

This is called setting up a paper tiger, obfuscation, spin, and the every popular on this web site, Bull Sh*t. It is just to give the president some cover and find fault somewhere else.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

First I ever heard of Benghazi being the cultural center of Libya.

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

"As a result, we underestimated the..."

What you mean 'we', white man ?

[Puppage]

Let’s ask Ambassador Stevens for his assessment?

Sadly, he's unavailable for comment.

[dead]

The “this middle east thingy is just too confusimified for Obama’s brain” excuse.

[Mamzelle]

LOL. Not blame. DEEP blame. That’s Deep Throat’s cheap sister.

[dead]

Exactly. I was arguing with idiot liberals I know from Day One, that helping remove Qaddafi so that the islametard fanatics could take his place was insane.

But they all believed the nonsense that the Islamic Spring was going to be a beautiful thing.

Morons.

[nikos1121]

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.

[UCANSEE2]

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.

[Little Ray]

Funneling arms (esp. Libyan MANPADS) to the Moslem Botherhood in Syria of course!

[Libloather]

the momentum it has given to extremists.

Hussein may have dodged a few tough questions. I wouldn't exactly call it 'momentum'.