I am not usually a conspiracy theorist, but I am very curious about “why” Benghazi happened. Reading your earlier replies I am now wondering if we paid them for the weapons, stored them there, and they simply stole them back.
Lots of questions and few answers. I still don’t think we gave away Stingers.... we provided the rebels air cover through NATO. I do believe we were trying to buy certain weapons the Colonel had acquired over the years from his Russian friends - i.e. SA-7’s and other variants of MANPADS. That is easy to believe, because the Arab Spring would look like Obama’s folly if a commercial airliner got dumped with a missile provided by the peaceful people we helped gain power. That is a very realistic scenario and illustrates the stupidity of this administration supporting the Arab Spring.
In the Middle East the “new regime” is usually worse than the “old regime.” See the Shah and story of Iran for the best example. This administration is terribly tone-deaf when it comes to crisis management because the media has been a bunch of boot lickers. The failure to come clean on Benghazi leads me to believe that something very stupid was taking place there and/or there were some decisions made by the administration that were indefensible in hindsight.
It’s hard to put ourselves back into that timeframe, but this was right up against the election and the real story of Benghazi did not fit the carefully crafted image the administration was trying to sell going into the election. The date creates the worst possible optics for the administration and I can easily imagine them thinking they would bury it with the help of their boot-licking media until after the election.
The problem came when a few in the media and in congress questioned the official narrative. Now they are stuck with lies that lead to more questions.