"It Was A Long Time Ago"...

You know what I'm talking about...Benghazi.  I started posting about this despicable affair soon after it happened.  You can read about it here, here, here, here, and here.  Most of the reputable news outlets are covering it.  As you would expect, Fox News heavily, MSNBC not so much.  But in any case you can get facts and opinions from lots of news sources, so I'll not attempt a summary here.

But...I continue to believe that many, many people in our government dropped the ball.  In my view here are the worst things (there are others) about this whole sordid affair:

1. My personal opinion is that the worst were the State Department bureaucrats who denied requests for support in the lead-up to the attack on Sep 11, 2012.  It is just beyond belief to me that some person sitting in a desk in Washington, DC would turn their backs on our diplomats serving on the other side of the world, especially in a place like Libya.
2. I don't know what good it would've done (and nobody can know) but our military could've done something.  Fighters on top?  Start moving forces?  Contingency forces somewhere close?  Navy assets to lob a few rounds?  I don't know.  But something, anything could've been tried.  The Combatant Commander dropped the ball.  Who specifically...we'll probably never know.
3. The cover-up afterward.  Susan Rice proved to be a useful idiot.  And they almost got away with it.  But make no mistake...the coverup was deliberate and specific.  No one will take the fall, but there was a cover-up.  Some are lamenting that this will impact Hillary's 2016 chances.  I don't think so.  Americans are forgiving and pretty ignorant about these things.  Most don't care.  And many, many won't believe it.
4. This might be the worst electoral deflection I've ever seen.  Obama and his thugs clearly needed to not let the American people know that the Al Qaida was still a threat after he single-handedly killed OBL.  The facade had to remain.  Anything to win.  And he did.  And now only about 6 months after the election he's is proving to be an even worse nightmare than we thought.

So the hearings have brought out a lot of info.  There will likely be more.  There are some pretty good comments about root causes here if you're interested.

There will be more terrible things that come out.  But...I'm just not sure anyone really cares...