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The Reality of Benghazi
Mark Steyn * EconomicNoise.com
What was Secretary Clinton doing that was more important? What was the president doing? Aside, that is, from resting up for his big Vegas campaign event. A real government would be scrambling furiously to see what it could do to rescue its people. It’s easy, afterwards, to say that nothing would have made any difference. But, at the time Deputy Chief Hicks was calling 911 and getting executive-branch voicemail, nobody in Washington knew how long it would last. A terrorist attack isn’t like a soccer game, over in 90 minutes. If it is a sport, it’s more like a tennis match: Whether it’s all over in three sets or goes to five depends on how hard the other guy pushes back. The government of the United States took the extremely strange decision to lose in straight sets. Not only did they not deploy out-of-area assets, they ordered even those in Libya to stand down. Lt. Col. Gibson had a small team in Tripoli that twice readied to go to Benghazi to assist and twice was denied authority to do so, the latter when they were already at the airport. There weren’t many of them, not compared to the estimated 150 men assailing the compound. But they were Special Forces, not bozo jihadists. Back in Benghazi, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty held off numerically superior forces for hours before dying on a rooftop waiting for backup from a government that had switched on the answering machine and gone to Vegas.
Throughout the all-night firefight in Benghazi, Washington’s priority seems to have been to do everything possible to deny that what was actually happening was happening at all. To send “soldiers” on a “mission” to “fight” the “enemy” was at odds with the entire Obama narrative of the Arab Spring and the broader post-Bush Muslim world. And so the entire U.S. military was stood down in support of the commander in chief’s fiction.
As Mr. Hicks testified, his superiors in Washington knew early that night that a well-executed terrorist attack with the possible participation of al-Qaida elements was underway. Instead of responding, the most powerful figures in the government decided that an unseen YouTube video better served their political needs. And, in the most revealing glimpse of the administration’s depravity, the president and secretary of state peddled the lie even in their mawkish eulogies to their buddy “Chris” and three other dead Americans. They lied to the victims’ coffins and then strolled over to lie to the bereaved, Hillary telling the Woods family that “we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.” And she did. The government dispatched more firepower to arrest Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in Los Angeles than it did to protect its mission in Benghazi. It was such a great act of misdirection Hillary should have worn spangled tights and sawn Stevens’ casket in half.
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http://www.economicnoise.com/2013/05/13/the-reality-of-benghazi/
Who exactly issued the stand down order?
DUH!! the only one who can, the president, IRANIAN BORN valerie jarrett. — but seriously, i heard that woods and doherty killed 83 of them, is that true? i believe it. just imagine how quick that could’ve been over if they’d sent ANYBODY!! how disgusting is it to know you and your buddy killed 83 bad guys and you still don’t have a chance?!?! that’s sickening! what kind of mess would we be in if they had survived? that would’ve been awesome! of course their evac chopper would’ve crashed. i pray there’s a God and a hell, ’cause i know AT LEAST 2 that are gonna bust it wide open! if he ain’t a muslim (which he is), what is there on earth that could be so effin important, to let that situation play out like it did? and OMG if romney/ryan, reagan/bush, bush/cheney or hell, dan quayle, had LET this happen. it sickens me to the bottom. every media POS should be hanged for treason and just generally being dumasses, except erin burnett, i love her. FREEWILLOFFERING had an interesting point in another comment, about justice Roberts being threatened: who do we run to? (I’m paraphrasing) — you can’t tell a bully that another bully stole your milk money! second amendment implementation will be the only justice we will ever see again. the system is rigged against us God-fearing white devils. oh and chris, if NSA records billions of pieces of our digital comms every day, is UNSENE even a little safe? seriously, not tryin’ to be a dick, i really want to know, or is that gonna be a case where they’ll try harder to see what we say ’cause we’re trying to encrypt it. you’ve got my email or if you want to link info here that’ll be cool.
and one last thing, to go ahead and respond to this article for ”ThenAgain”—ZIONISTS.