Site icon The Punching Bag Post

Why Benghazi Still Matters

<div>As Abraham Lincoln once said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>Lincoln&&num;8217&semi;s words are fitting for anyone&&num;8217&semi;s life&comma; and even more so for those who hold the office of President&period; In the months that will follow&comma; as candidates soar to new heights only to fall to unbelievable lows&comma; we the people will have to ask ourselves which candidate is not afraid of the immense responsibility that being the President holds &&num;8211&semi; and which candidates are more worried about image than obligation&period; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>If you&&num;8217&semi;re a reader of the New York Times and watch a lot of televised news&comma; what I am about to tell you might be somewhat shocking&period; Benghazi&comma; and more generally Libya&comma; never clamored for democratic revolution&comma; despite the White House&&num;8217&semi;s insistence of the contrary&period; Benghazi has long been associated with Islamic militancy in Libya&comma; in particular for violent uprising by Islamist organizations in the mid&hyphen;1990s&period; According to the CIA discovered Sinjar reports&comma; nearly 80 percent of Libyans who fought against American forces in the Iraqi War came from Benghazi and its neighboring Darnah&period; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&&num;8220&semi;I would say that I personally was not focused on talking points&comma; I was focused on keeping our people safe&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Clinton said to Tennessee Sen&period; Bob Corker&comma; the top Republican on the investigative Senate panel&period; &&num;8220&semi;Keeping safe&&num;8221&semi; meant relocating Special Envoy Chris Stevens and his team to Benghazi &&num;8211&semi; where in 2006 at least ten people were killed at the Italian consulate during a demonstration over Muhammad cartoons&period; Months after arriving from Tripoli&comma; after frequent requests for more security&comma; Chris Stevens and members of his team were brutally murdered by al Qaeda affiliated agents&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&&num;8220&semi;With specific security requests&comma; they didn&&num;8217&semi;t come to me&semi; I had no knowledge of them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Clinton in the same Senate hearing&period; With the 2016 election only 4 years away from the 2012 murder of the four Americans&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s easy to see why the single-minded Clinton ignored her most basic duties&period; If a Secretary of State can&&num;8217&semi;t be bothered to read desperate pleas by their own ambassadors&comma; how could the voters seriously consider that person for president&quest;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>According to a boastful&comma; tragically premature 2013 New York Times article written by C&period; J Shivers&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Many of the same people who chased the colonel &lpar;Gaddafi&rpar; to his grave are busy shuttling his former arms stockpiles to rebels in Syria&period; The flow is an important source of weapons for the uprising and a case of bloody turnabout&comma; as the inheritors of one strongman&&num;8217&semi;s arsenal use them in the fight against another&period;&&num;8221&semi; The article continues&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Evidence gathered in Syria&comma; along with flight-control data and interviews with militia members&comma; smugglers&comma; analysts and officials in several countries&comma; offers a profile of a complex and active multinational effort&comma; financed largely by Qatar&comma; to transport arms from Libya to Syrian opposition fighters&period; Libya&&num;8217&semi;s own former fighters&comma; who sympathize with Syria&&num;8217&semi;s rebels&comma; have been eager collaborators&period;&&num;8221&semi; Once believed by the Obama administration to be &&num;8220&semi;democracy-loving&comma;&&num;8221&semi; these rebels are now known as ISIS&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>While accidentally contributing to the creation of the largest terrorist organization in history and ignoring American envoys who were pleading for their lives should be enough to disqualify a potential candidate from becoming president&comma; many still cheer on the responsibility-skirting Hillary to run in the 2016 presidential elections&period; According to a recent MSNBC poll&comma; 60 percent of people believe Hillary is the strongest Democratic candidate&period; Given the legacy of this former Secretary of State&comma; the only people who should happily anticipate this potential candidacy live in Sharia ruled Swathes of Iraq and Syria&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

Exit mobile version