The more I think about what happened in Benghazi the madder I get. Sure it happened on Obama’s watch and as a Conservative it is something I can use against him since it happened on his watch. But the more I think about it there is something different about Benghazi, something rare when it comes to terrorism, namely there were warnings leading up to it.
What makes terrorism as dangerous as anything is the randomness of their attacks. Of course they are planned on their end but they rely on the element of surprise. We did not see 9/11/01 coming but we were advised by the intelligence community to be diligent on 9/11/12. How often do you get an advance warning on the possibilty of a terrorist attack, almost never. Yet they caught us with our pants down and good men died as a result. It took weeks to get the FBI over there to do a meaningless mock investigation and apparently now the CIA has moved it’s operation out of Benghazi. Meantime, as a citizen and not for political purposes, I am wondering what kind of a song and dance routine has our foreign relations become. Foreign relations reflect on an entire nation and the rest of the world sees us as a nation divided and a nation getting weaker every day for all the wrong reasons.
Sure this is now a political football but it shouldn’t be. Fast and Furious became a political football also and Obama chose Executive Privilege as a way to protect Eric Holder. But the same thing happened in that fiasco, that did not resolve anything, it left everything hanging. We as a nation turn out being judged by these things. Is Executive Privilege coming on Benghazi, who knows that is the way this administration rolls. More likely Obama will throw Hillary under the bus although they have to face Bill C if they do that. So this is a political football not so much because the republicans had pressed this fiasco in Benghazi but also because there are numerous in house scenarios going on that have nothing to do with anything except blaming anyone but themselves.
So I am mad because good men died and I see it as being preventable. I am mad because the Obama administration has been in campaign mode for 10 months or more now. I am really mad when I here Obama randomly attends intelligence briefings although that appears how he performs his duties, randomly. When you play over 100 rounds of golf and travel around campaigning most of every week how can anyone expect Obama to be on top of anything. So he trusts his appointess, well how has that worked out with Holder and Hillary. So when democrats say that republicans are making political footballs out of Fast and Furious and Benghazi look at it this way. When the ball is teed up and there are people in the stands it is game on. What is lacking are the referees. Since there are none each individual American citizen has a right to judge Benghazi on the merits.
If Benghazi was the first indication of how bad things in the WH and in DC were that would be one thing. Was Watergate a political football, you betcha and we all know who was swinging that big stick. No body died in Watergate, it was about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar. Benghazi is about good men dying. Every American should take that personally, democrat or republican. Yes, it is that simple. And every American should want to get to the bottom of how that tragedy was allowed to occur. It is time to take the air out of the football, take off our uniforms, and find some real referees.
I know everyone on the forum regardless of their political affiilations sees Benghazi as a tragedy. When are we going to treat it as such.
What makes terrorism as dangerous as anything is the randomness of their attacks. Of course they are planned on their end but they rely on the element of surprise. We did not see 9/11/01 coming but we were advised by the intelligence community to be diligent on 9/11/12. How often do you get an advance warning on the possibilty of a terrorist attack, almost never. Yet they caught us with our pants down and good men died as a result. It took weeks to get the FBI over there to do a meaningless mock investigation and apparently now the CIA has moved it’s operation out of Benghazi. Meantime, as a citizen and not for political purposes, I am wondering what kind of a song and dance routine has our foreign relations become. Foreign relations reflect on an entire nation and the rest of the world sees us as a nation divided and a nation getting weaker every day for all the wrong reasons.
Sure this is now a political football but it shouldn’t be. Fast and Furious became a political football also and Obama chose Executive Privilege as a way to protect Eric Holder. But the same thing happened in that fiasco, that did not resolve anything, it left everything hanging. We as a nation turn out being judged by these things. Is Executive Privilege coming on Benghazi, who knows that is the way this administration rolls. More likely Obama will throw Hillary under the bus although they have to face Bill C if they do that. So this is a political football not so much because the republicans had pressed this fiasco in Benghazi but also because there are numerous in house scenarios going on that have nothing to do with anything except blaming anyone but themselves.
So I am mad because good men died and I see it as being preventable. I am mad because the Obama administration has been in campaign mode for 10 months or more now. I am really mad when I here Obama randomly attends intelligence briefings although that appears how he performs his duties, randomly. When you play over 100 rounds of golf and travel around campaigning most of every week how can anyone expect Obama to be on top of anything. So he trusts his appointess, well how has that worked out with Holder and Hillary. So when democrats say that republicans are making political footballs out of Fast and Furious and Benghazi look at it this way. When the ball is teed up and there are people in the stands it is game on. What is lacking are the referees. Since there are none each individual American citizen has a right to judge Benghazi on the merits.
If Benghazi was the first indication of how bad things in the WH and in DC were that would be one thing. Was Watergate a political football, you betcha and we all know who was swinging that big stick. No body died in Watergate, it was about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar. Benghazi is about good men dying. Every American should take that personally, democrat or republican. Yes, it is that simple. And every American should want to get to the bottom of how that tragedy was allowed to occur. It is time to take the air out of the football, take off our uniforms, and find some real referees.
I know everyone on the forum regardless of their political affiilations sees Benghazi as a tragedy. When are we going to treat it as such.
