Benghazi, the likely actual story–edited

Here is what I think happened.  This is plausible, and accounts for the facts as known. The Embassy came under attack, but it was supposed to be defended by a local militia, the Febuary 17th Brigade. 

This was a feel-good policy, in which a sap-headed State Department took a major risk with the lives of our Embassy employees so that they could continue to nourish the delusion that facilitating the take-over of Libya by people whose loyalties we had no real way of assessing was good policy.

They wanted to believe the Libyans when they said that they could provide security.  They did NOT want to doubt, for a moment, that the good guys had won, and the bad guys lost. “We came, we saw and he died”.

I would encourage people to watch that video.  I think it is right to celebrate victory, to some extent, but the reality is that her personal involvement was little, and that regardless of what one thought of Gaddafi, I don’t think that it is dignified or appropriate to laugh about something like his brutal death.  It is very much like his death was an abstraction to her. She has likely never smelled fresh blood, seen dismembered bodies, or heard a gun fired in anger.  It’s like a board game to her, one with no consequences, except to her professional standing as a diplomat.  That attitude, here, is what is important.

Returning to Benghazi, it seems obvious that early on they had real time footage of a full scale, planned attack.  What did the State Dept. do?  They called the militia.  The militia likely said something along the lines of “we’re on the way”, so Hillary told other local assets to stand down.  She did not want to embarrass her local hosts, and wanted to give them a chance to show what they could do.

What she failed to calculate on was conscious betrayal.  As the hours dragged on, they kept saying they were on way, but in reality they were either participating, or standing back and watching.  They number several prominent Islamists in their ranks, and that area is radicalized.  There have been a number of attacks in that area, including a prior bombing of our Embassy itself, an attack on the British, and an attack on the Red Cross.

Anyone who studies Muslims needs to understand that their faith leads them to be tricky, manipulative, and treacherous, at least to non-Muslims; and if one studies their actual history, to one another, even though that is technically contrary to their faith.

I have thought long and hard about how to think of Islam.  Plainly, not all Muslims are bastards.  Many, likely most, are decent hard working honest people.  But here is how I would put it: they are decent IN SPITE OF their religion, not because of it.  The example of the Prophet himself allows pedophilia and rape.

A Muslim who rapes and murders a Christian child has not committed a crime, since non-Muslims have no rights, and really no standing for existence outright.  A Christian who murders a Muslim child, on the other hand, very simply cannot justify it. If this doesn’t make your blood boil, please go jump in front of a bus, because you are a detriment to the human race.

Long story short, Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty, in going to the Embassy to protect our personnel, were DISOBEYING ORDERS, and Hillary–seeing that her carefully laid plan of facilitating Libyan only protection was going to be disrupted–chose to let them die.

When the facts come out, I think that will be very close to the truth.

And as far as Obama, I don’t think he cared IN THE SLIGHTEST.  He was and is in campaign mode, and we have already established he is not a people person.  He is, on the contrary, a full blown narcissist who only, even now, cares about the murder of four Americans because of how it might affect him politically.

He likely heard “some kind of something in Libya, blah, blah, blah”, and chose to let Hillary deal with it, while he planned his next campaign stops.

Now, I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that he is President in the first place, or that nearly half of America thinks something other than disaster will come from reelecting him, so I can’t step outside of that perceptual frame enough to say what an appropriate punishment might be, but it is clear that he entrusted the lives of people who trusted him to someone who plainly was living in a world of delusion, which is to say patent incompetence.  Her inaction, based upon a horribly overoptimistic assessment of her own policy, created widows, grieving parents, and likely grieving children.

Fuck Hillary Clinton, Fuck Obama, and Fuck the American people who have STILL failed to see through this very thin veneer of illusion.

Postscript: In my pursuit of truth, I forgot to note that after Hillary’s indefensible fuckup, she LIED about it.  Like most, I assumed initially that there was simply confusion about what happened.  But we now know that they were watching a live feed virtually from the get-go.  They had had previous attacks, and they knew that the area was dangerous.  Stevens had repeatedly requested more guards.  In theory, host countries provide security, but in reality embassies in volatile places like Libya ALWAYS have to assume the worst, at least when the leadership is competent.

So Hillary, knowing full well that it was her decision–repeated three times, in response to three requests for help–to let the SEAL’s die, chose, consciously, in front of cameras, to LIE.

Honest people don’t understand how dishonest people can tell bald faced lies.  The simple reality is that some people have NO character, and exist in a constant fear that their vanity will be damaged, and their superficial appearance of being fully human caused to vanish or be compromised.  Some people will say and do anything to avoid people finding out who and how they really are.  Hillary is plainly such a person.  I don’t think Barack would have needed to tell her to lie.  She started testing stories the moment she realized the scale of the disaster.

This is contemptible.  This is a fraction of what Nixon did to get to the point where he was going to be impeached.  In Nixon’s case, he read about the break-in in the newspaper.  He did not authorize it.  He just did not admit, when he did start asking questions of his team, when they told him about it.  That’s all.

This is the equivalent of Nixon AUTHORIZING the break-in, then lying about it.  Congress needs to get Hillary under oath, and then Obama.  Obama had to have known early on as well what happened.