Why should Dems be concerned about incompetence, lies, fraud and blackmail in the Oval Office?
Until Friday, there were two possible explanations for why the White House failed to immediately call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. One was incompetence, the other was worse.
Now there is only one, and it is the worse one. Based on the persuasive testimony of ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, it is clear the Obama administration made a deliberate decision to mislead Congress and the American people.
So the president lied, including in a speech to the United Nations, where he cited the video as the reason for the attack. He sent out reams of flunkies to do the same, including his snide press secretary, Jay Carney.
Most notably, UN Ambassador Susan Rice went on five Sunday television shows to spin the nonsense about the hijacking of a demonstration — a demonstration that never existed. Rice made a fool of herself, and now, she, too is damaged goods.
Oddly, Petraeus, brought down by the reckless affair with his biographer, nonetheless looks like the only honest man in the drama.
A briefing he gave soon after the attack is now more suspect because it adhered to the party line, despite his belief that it was always a terrorist attack.
But Friday in his testimony behind closed doors, Petraeus told the truth as he knew it, even though the administration announced the day before that it was investigating his conduct at the CIA.
If that was meant to pressure him to protect the president, it failed spectacularly. Whatever his personal failings, Petraeus reinforced his reputation for professional integrity.
While Democrats are predictably and shamefully trying to deny the significance of Petraeus’ revelation, Republicans say they are determined to get the full truth, wherever the hunt takes them.
David Petraeus’ testimony pins mistruths to White House – NYPOST.com
We know the full truth, we have always known it, since the earliest reports of the attack. That’s why Obama’s lying “narrative” has been so galling, because it was and is so blatant. People should not care about the side roads he and his supporters keep trying to lose truthseekers on: He wanted to give Muslims clear general support, something that they from their point of view could take as justification for their cultic faith, so he spun the attack so Muslims could cling proudly (and wrongly) to their barbaric beliefs, rather than tell the American people and the world the truth about the terrorist evil that flows directly from those beliefs. He has determinedly tried to give aid and comfort to an enemy that declared war on the United States and the Western powers in general two generations ago, and which has relentlessly pursued that war, at its convenience, ever since. At real issue then is the characterless treason of Barack Obama and all who willingly serve under him. But half the American people refuse to heed, because half the American people (including the newly re-elected President) are not Americans, at heart. They are motivated now by class warfare and racism, the ready pawns of old grudges, old dogmas never questioned and let go. They think they are going forward to a better day, but they are only undoing the sense of “one nation, under God” that it took the Civil War and the settling of the American West to bring about (in the future, we are all too likely, as we perhaps find ourselves living in scattered enclaves of civilization, to have to refer to it as “The First Civil War”).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/19/house-investigates-epa-emails-agency-says-administrators-have-two-accounts/
Obama must think that there are still factions that could lead to democratic, non hostile leadership in Libya and other places. Whether he is right remains to be seen. I am personally skeptical. But you can at least see a reason for his non aggressive response to the embassy attack. If he did something aggressive, he would have antagonized the entire region, which could have much farther reaching long term implications than the death of four people. You can say it is appeasement and that it won’t work, but there is at least a rationale for Obama bending over backwards to avoid conflict.
That show of weakness will only result in more conflict.
Look at what we have experienced after Carter and Clinton foreign policy.
No matter what we do or don’t do there is going to be a faction in these countries that wants to destroy us. The question is whether there is any reasonable chance to have a non hostile regime in Libya that would work with us to fight terrorism. If so, Obama may have some justification for his lack of action.
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These next four years are going to be so fun!