“Placing trust in the various militia factions to set aside their longstanding differences and establish a governing body in the war torn country illustrates another amateur mistake.” This was no amateur mistake. This was an implementation of the policy called for by foreign policy professionals: to ignore whatever a study of Islamic doctrine and law might reveal about the thought processes and motivations of Islamic jihadis, and to assume that they’re motivated by the same mix of pragmatism and self-interest that motivates secular Western urban cosmopolites, i.e., people just like themselves.
This is the kind of disastrous miscalculation preached by establishment foreign policy wonks such as Will McCants (and the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution in general), Max Abrahms (and the Council on Foreign Relations in general), and a host of others that the State Department and other foreign policy entities hire by the pound. They’re the type who led us into this mess. Hillary Clinton is just their most prominent exponent — which does not in the least exonerate her. It’s just to say that not only does Hillary Clinton’s influence over the U.S. government in whatever capacity need to be decisively rejected; the whole foreign policy establishment needs to be swept out, cherished and unquestioned assumptions rejected, and the edifice remade by people who are more realistic and unafraid to base policy on unpleasant realities rather than upon politically correct wishful thinking.
“Clinton can’t escape Benghazi responsibility,” by D.W. Wilber, The Hill, June 27, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
As Americans await the findings from the final Benghazi report, which will be released by the Select Committee on Benghazi any day now, it is important to remember the information the committee has been uncovering thus far.
Based on the collective intelligence compiled by the Select Committee, led by Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, the indisputable fact is that there was a blatant disregard for warning signs, an inept response to the attack, and a fabricated cover-up; a complete and utter failure of will by the senior leadership of the Obama Administration.
The Obama Administration’s foreign policy in Libya, led by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was a dismal failure. Most notable was the decision by the Secretary of State to pursue the ouster of Libyan leader Muamar Qaddafi without having a plan in place for what happened afterward. Placing trust in the various militia factions to set aside their longstanding differences and establish a governing body in the war torn country illustrates another amateur mistake. And none of these decisions were in the interests of the United States.
With the deteriorating situation on the ground in Tripoli and Benghazi, hundreds of requests for additional security for the Americans in Libya went unanswered or denied. No precautionary measures were taken, even as the September 11, 2001 anniversary was approaching.
Additional security was denied even though intelligence reports clearly indicated the presence in Libya of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups hostile to the United States. Even though there had been multiple previous attacks against the diplomatic missions of other countries, and the U.S.’s own outpost in Benghazi, those requests were ignored leading up to the events of September 11th.
It was lunacy on a grand scale.We expect the Select Committee will single out a number of high-level administration officials for criticism, including the former Secretary of State. Her inaction on the numerous requests for additional security, in addition to her lack of response on the night of the attack, reveals a serious lack of competence. It was more of a “crossed fingers” response to the problem – keeping her fingers crossed and hoping for the best.
President Obama and his closest advisors are no doubt criticized for their insufficient response. While an American diplomatic facility was under attack the President should have been more ‘hands on,’ but unlike the claims that he was personally engaged in the raid that killed Bin Laden, he simply left the problem for others to figure out, and then left for a fundraising event while four Americans lay freshly murdered. He and the entire administration were completely disconnected from the life and death situation on the ground in Libya.
Those on the ground in Benghazi were left to fend for themselves when help of any kind would have been welcomed, and likely successful in preventing the later loss of lives.
No one launched to help those under fire. No one even tried….

Milosh Obilic says
Much as I dislike Hillary Clinton the endless conservative Fatwa against her is tedious. Endless attempts by the Obama administration to increase security funds for our diplomats in places like Libya were consistently rebuffed by the Republican Congress because of their dislike for Obama, which I may share but not in a self defeating manner. Still, four deaths in Libya are now under investigation while lies about Saddam Hussein’s weapons have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands across Iraq and Syria. Saddam was an authoritarian ruler but when he was in power a million Christians live in Iraq and could worship every Sunday in peace. Where are they now? His defense minister was a Christian. Give me a break!!
Adrian says
“Much as I dislike Hillary Clinton…”
LOL, give ME a break!
and btw, your manner IS self-defeating…
Wellington says
There were no lies told about Saddam Hussein respecting WMDs, Milosh Obilic. This is itself a lie. Every major intelligence agency on the planet thought SH wasn’t coming clean about WMDs. George Tenet, then the Director of the CIA, told then President George Bush that it was a “slam dunk” that WMDs would be found in SH’s Iraq. Moreover, SH was violating the truce terms of the 1991 war consistently, for instance firing on British and American jets virtually daily over the two no-fly zones. Moreover, SH had contacts with Muslim terrorists, for instance Abu Masab al-Zarqawi who was in Iraq for much of 2002 as indicated in the 2006 Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq. Additionally, SH was the only leader in the world who at one time had WMDs AND had used them. He was also a megalomaniac who was out of control.
Bush had no choice after 9/11 to take out SH. Where Bush failed was in trying to implant democracy in a Muslim country. This was due to ignorance on a grand scale. Bush should have kept the Iraqi military largely in tact and selected from it a Mubarak-type officer to run Iraq with an iron but not megalomaniacal hand. Muslim nations cannot develop true democracies because true democracies require freedom and Islam is a mortal enemy of freedom. Thus, Muslim nations will either be run by a secular authoritarian who hopefully doesn’t descend into outright barbarism as SH did or by, in effect, theocratic regimes implementing Islamic law to the full. American leadership then (and now) should have known this. It didn’t and therein lies the real fault and NOT mendacity about WMDs.
JawsV says
Fatwa? The Muslims have issued a fatwa against Hillary? You mean like against Salman Rushdie? Only Muslims issue fatwas. Tell us about it.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The capacity for self-delusion and fake history gorging among globo-socialists is apparently limitless. They just keep shaving at the margins on every topic, consistently refusing to go the heart of the matter. There is no truth, only individual perceptions of what people see as true. Thus there is no responsibility for mistakes or crimes, only association with them. Above all there is no pattern, except the constant taking of small chunks of credit or at least not any blame, usually during a news entertainment segment or an opinion piece in a newspaper. Always partial, never complete, unable to cover a pattern from end-to-end.
Bezelel says
There photographic documentation of Iraqi corpses caused by gas, under Saddam’s orders. The worlds largest cannon being built to fire wmd’s at Israel. Scud F’n missiles, Yada Yada. So why wouldn’t S.H. be suspected? The US invasion was near perfect.The nation building was an exercise in futility and way to expensive. Nation building is not what persuaded Kadaffi to co-operate and assisting the overthrow and assassination of Kaddafi is no way to persuade other leaders to co-operate. The arab spring is a signature cluster f–k and obola/clinton signed their name to it.
duh swami says
How to Assassinate an Ambassador…The Movie…,Some men know3 too much and must go…and so they went…
duh swami says
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
have been posting here longer than anyone and that’s the first time I got that message…
duh swami says
What’s going on, hive I b3en banned or hacked?
eduardo odraude says
If you have more than one link in a comment, it automatically gets held for moderation. Did you have more than one link?
duh swami says
No links..
Jay Boo says
duh swami
Your “How to” comment above about the movie probably got flagged by an automatic filter. Think about it for a moment.
duh swami says
I have posted the ‘movie’ comment before with no prob[em…t’s only a movie…l9yu64n up..haha…
duh swami says
OK, I’m connived that Hillary is now controlling the vertical and the horizontal…
Whoowoodathotot? Haha…Ok I give up…
Charli Main says
” Her inaction on the numerous requests for additional security, in addition to her lack of response on the night of the attack, reveals a serious lack of competence”
Perhaps Hillary and Huma were engaged in more pressing matters at the time.
Angemon says
Unless the FBI doesn’t indict her. And there’s quite a lot to add to Benghazi: using an unauthorized and insecure server to send/receive top secret and above emails, taking MILLIONS from foreign nations, including openly hostile nations, for political favours and business deals (like, for example, selling 20% of America’s uranium supply to Russia), etc.
miriamrove says
We are f….. if she gets in. I am going to move back to Iran!!! M
Jay Boo says
The Hillary sanitizing media is constantly wiping Hillary’s butt.
(4 American’s dead and Hillary makes jokes.)
Clinton Jokes About Wiping Server ‘With A Cloth’
robert galluzzo says
On two occasions prior to the attacks, Amb. Stevens refused offers of extra security
assets from Gen Carter Ham, Commander of AFRICOM. President Obama was meeting
Oval Office with his National Security Advisers went the attacks started. He was with them
until the final attacks on the CIA annex, Fox News showed photos of that meeting of
that meeting that evening. The attack on the Annex ended at approximately 5:30-6:00
Benghazi time and evacuation was underway to the Benghazi Airport shortly thereafter.
The meeting at the WH ended at 11:30-12:00 PM EST after the survivors were rescued and on their
way to the airport. Secretary of State was instrumental for getting permission for the
rescue aircraft to land in Benghazi as well as getting permission for F.A.S.T. teams from
Spain, Croatia and the eastern US to cross the Libyan border and land in Libya as required by
international protocol. Another six-man security team landed in Benghazi from Tripoli and helped the
20+ CIA shooters at the Annex to repel the insurgents at 5:00 AM.
WorkingClassPost says
OK, I’m interested.
But what’s your point?
Jay Boo says
I would guess any citation for this would be from Huff Post but since robert galluzzo did not even bother to list any, it is likely nothing but merely his opinionated speculation and wishful thinking posing.
WorkingClassPost says
Yes
And mix n match time zones, no dates, so no chronology, and probably nothing to do with islam either.
Jay Boo says
BTW r. g.
Hillary is a RACIST.
jihad3tracker says
If you can find a contact path to the author of this superb item (D. W. Wilber) please take a minute or two to send a thank-you note.
somehistory says
She didn’t want those in government who would oppose, or the general public, or the NRA, to find out about the gun-running operation to al queda in Syria. It would have spoiled everything.
That is why afterward she could say, “What difference… at this point…does it make?”
The terrorists had the guns, the people who knew about it were either dead or being held incognito in Germany, or they were willing to lie for her and she knew it couldn’t be undone.
Since what was done was done, she wanted to move on to her new and more powerful position.
She is a wild beast enabler. Everyone knows she lies, even her supporters and to those people, it truly doesn’t make a difference.
But, like everyone, she will reap what she has sown. And she has some some very rotten and evil seed.
Her eyes are those of a terrorist, are they not?
(Revelation 13 paints a portrait of her, as does 18)
somehistory says
*sown* some very rotten and evil seed. Thankful her field of planting is limited, knowing for what she has plowed the ground.
Walter Sieruk says
It is known that “On September 11, 2012 Islamic terrorists launched an attack against the U.S.Consulate in Benghazi ,Libya…Security for the U.S Embassies and diplomatic personnel was the responsibility of the U.S State Department under Hillary. Public records reveal that Hillary knew there was a well -planned terrorist attack planned for the day .But on September 14, 2012 [two full days after the attack], Hillary lied to America claiming that the attack was the result of ‘rage and violence over an awful internet video’ – referring to an anti–Islam video on you Tube that almost no one had seen.” [1] So not only is Hillary very and totally incompetent and useless the head of the State Department but to make mater even worse she in an outright liar.
[1] HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON : A HISTORY OF SCANDAL , CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM – Published by the group called ‘Liberty Guard’
Walter Sieruk says
There is the internet site http://www.lyingcrookedhillary.com
Dum Spiro says
Top 50 Facts About Hillary Clinton From Trump ‘Stakes Of The Election’ Address:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/HillaryList1
(See facts 18 through 21 in the pdf.)
We will continue to seek the truth about how Hillary really is…
— Spero
Iggy A says
Or – it reveals design…
Elsewhere, on Brieghtbart, there is an article about a State Department security specialists exchanging communication with related people in DC about what a death trap the compound was — that it was widely known and discussed in DC — but nothing was being done — so those concerned needed to keep record of their warnings —- for after the inevitable disaster struck.
If that is only 75% true, you have to start talking about Design…
These people are not that incompetent. And there are too many of them involved to dismiss it as incompetence or misguided view.
You don’t dangle a piece of raw bloody meat on a pole over the fence in a zoo at the lion’s pen and then claim shock when they ravenously attack it.
You don’t have all this chatter going on about the Benghazi compound being little more than a Kill Zone – and then send the top State Department Official in the country into it —– ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11..!!! — and then act surprised when the attack takes place and is successful…
They are not that stupid…
Things do start to —- add up — as enough information comes out….
We have to consider that the outcome was desired for whatever reasons that remain unclear.
The writing on the wall might not give us all the details, but it certainly points a finger where to look and who to blame…
UriahB says
Oh bomb ah “personally engaged”??? Yea, perhaps on a golf course in Hawaii.
Yadja says
Tell us something most of us who have kept up with this didn’t know? But in the words of the wicked witch of the State Department , “What difference does it make?” Just as the death of the Libertarian candidate recently and now the death of the guy that was to testify against her.
HMMMMMMMM Shades of Stalin’s Russia and when you add to it Scalia they are getting braver all the time.
Champ says
Benghazi: Hillary’s “inaction on numerous requests for additional security…reveals a serious lack of competence”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And this incompetent person could be our next president ..insane! What are some of you thinking?
awake says
Hillary seriously miscalculated when she accepted the SoS position from her political rival. First of all, he was and is the driving force behind all this administration’s foreign policy, including circumventing Congress to join the UN in establishing the no-fly zone which lead to Qadaffi’s ouster, as well as the secret operation to run guns through the embassy to the Syrian “rebels”, (see ISIS), in his ongoing attempt to overthrow Assad.
Still, Obama had a scapegoat in Clinton since the embassy was her concern. We all know about the lie for political expediency that took place, and the report exposes and confirms afterwards.
Obama owns Clinton in totality. He allowed her to run a rogue private server to gain political leverage against her on his way out of office, limiting her criticism of him in his 2nd term. It worked like a charm. He is the only person keeping her out of prison at the moment.
Still, nothing will be done by the Feds, or Congress, besides more showboating. If the Republic is to be saved it will be by the voters and the voters alone.
eduardo odraude says
Personally, I don’t give much credence to conservative and Republican accounts (or Democrat accounts) of the Benghazi attacks. Both Dems and Repubs, Left and Right, often distort, exaggerate, or even lie outright to an extent that it becomes quite difficult to see through the fog of charge and counter charge. One would have to study all the various claims for hours, and even then might come up with an inconclusive result as to who is stretching the truth at which points.
What does seem clear is that the Democrats, for the most part, are clueless when it comes to a realistic assessment of Islam. The Repubs are not good either, but they are perhaps a bit better than the Democrats. Moreover Trump himself seems pretty on target about Islam. He is the only politician to cut through the fog of PC blindness on the issue.
The neuroscientist Sam Harris, who is certainly no Republican — those of you out there who are Dems, I strongly recommend googling for his internet videos about Islam, and actually conservatives could also learn from him on that subject — Harris is one of the somewhat leftish folks who does see Islam fairly accurately for what it is, knows the core Islamic texts to some extent, and on that basis and others seems to agree with the view that many Democrats and people on the Left are often ridiculous in their ignorance of, their foolish responses to, and their hypocrisy about, Islam. Bill Maher is another person who leans strongly Democrat, but who at least to some extent “gets it” about Islam. Though Maher and Harris both find Trump a sort of horrifying and contemptible monstrosity, and both Harris and Maher seem to be Democrats, I could imagine that when the time comes to vote, they might hold their noses and vote for Trump, and perhaps tell no one they did.
In any event, for me, it is not about Benghazi. I reject Hillary because of her approach to Islam. She supports the PC fog and wants to leave the immigration floodgates open for people from the Islamic world. One of her closest advisors (her closest?), is Huma Abedin, a Muslim from what appears to be a Muslim Brotherhood family background. Hillary has been part of an administration that has tried to censor and control the government’s vocabulary about Islam in a way that hides Islam’s totalitarian character. Is the administration ignorant of Islam’s totalitarian character? Is that why Obama and his people scrub any reference to Islam and jihad with respect to actual terror attacks and how to deal with them? Or is the administration aware of the nature of Islam, and for foolish strategic reasons and allegiance to the PC ethos scrubs government language? Don’t know, but despite my problems with Trump, I will probably vote for him.
John A. Marre says
You and I both know that the media will change this so as to blame Republicans.
common sense says
The enemy has intel on us as well, it can’t be over looked. No one would attack a US embassy knowing it was protected by US forces and/or private security. You would not get within 50 feet of the gate without confrontation. Try walking too close to the state cap bldg and see what happens.
“Lack of competence” is inaccurate. Willful betrayal is more likely since Stevens appeared to be coming to his senses on supplying arms to “Al-queda connected individuals” via St. Dept orders and the blind eye of Obama. Stevens probably tried to reneg and Clinton has her motivations which are all well known and aptly exposed here, there and everywhere. I personally doubt that his death bothers her at all or she would not be running for potus.
Somehow getting 4 Americans killed is not against the law unless negligence or treason can be proven beyond a shadow of any doubt. None of this will stick as usual but this does expose the black heart of a maniac and at the very least a hardcore and deadly lack of virtue and the sickness of a pessimistic attitude. NO WAY POTUS material.
Deleting Govt information can be proven, should be proven and hopefully will be her downfall. I’m not holding my breath for the current AG to try this bitch though, even if indictment is recommended by the FBI.
All this and people still don’t understand the danger of dealing with Islamic nations and Clinton’s nefarious dealings across the Mid East nations. Every liberal that I know waffles on this. That “I” know is is not a blanket statement since some dems seem to have come to their senses.
eduardo odraude says
The Weekly Standard today has a piece on Hillary and Benghazi. In a private message the day after the attack, Hillary says she knows the attack in Benghazi had nothing to do with the film. The next day, in a public statement, she clearly intends to convey the impression that the film was the cause. We are supposed to conclude that it was a spontaneous protest of the video, and the protest erupted into violence. But when she tried to convey that impression (on Sept 13), she knew it was a pre-planned jihad attack (since she said so in private on Sept 12).
The very next day Hillary in public says something very different.
End of excerpt from Weekly Standard article, which can be found here:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-benghazi-lie-in-black-and-white/article/2003058
Edward says
Clinton claims House Benghazi report ‘found nothing,’ says “time to move on”>
What a denier…maybe that’s why Hillary always gets away with all of her scandals. If you delve into other high profile individuals they always see their misbehavior’s as objective only, but never subjective to their sub conscience. They deny by thinking or saying: “If I can’t see if it’s not there”‘ is which perhaps their way to use compartmentalization effectively to bury all unwanted responsibilities in their lives.
Her boss (BO) uses the same mental disconnect tactics:
“President Obama and his closest advisors are no doubt criticized for their insufficient response. While an American diplomatic facility was under attack the President should have been more ‘hands on,’ but unlike the claims that he was personally engaged in the raid that killed Bin Laden, he simply left the problem for others to figure out, and then left for a fundraising event while four Americans lay freshly murdered. He and the entire administration were completely disconnected from the life and death situation on the ground in Libya.” – D.W. Wilber, The Hill, June 27, 2016
We could think and say that the muslim world subscribes to this very same ruthless mindset!
Btw, this same mental capability attribute is available to accomplish to do our good moral deeds or evil misdeeds by all of God’s human creations! It’s all a matter of what option we choose for our lives!
Ali Bey says
Hillary is a snake in the grass
duh swami says
They swept the dead and bro poor Ben Ghazi under the carpet of deceit, and then they lied, and then they lied some more…
Iggy A says
The ghosts of Nixon… All anyone in the news talks about are — the lies. Nobody cares to think past that.
Why was the Ambassador of a nation undergoing civil war sent on the anniversary of 9/11 into a compound security officials in the State Department called a Death Trap?
A compound professionals in the State Department in DC were so concerned about they started telling each other to keep records of their warnings and attempts to fix the problem for the inevitable inquiry that would come after the compound was attacked and people were killed…
Nobody cares to investigate that.
They just chalk it up to Incompetence. And tell the public the only real scandal is that Hillary and Obama claimed it was a riot over an online video — when they knew it wasn’t….
…I’d like to know the facts on why the Ambassador was sent to a Kill Zone on the most important day for Islamic Terrorists in a nation in the middle of a Civil War…
In Black Hawk Down, they had a very dangerous plan but at least they could point to capturing key players in the rebel government as the reason…
What was the excuse that was so important we sent the fattest target in Libya to a Slaughter House on the biggest day of the year to make an international splash with a bold terrorist attack?
What was the real reason he was sent there?
We’ll never have much proof why, will we?
Because nobody cared to care. They milked whatever political gains they could get out of focusing on what are minor issues compared to the key question…
vivienne Leijonhufvu (@goldaleijonhufv) says
US voting for this stupid corrupt woman is as bad as voting for Obama. On your heads be it US.
Havoc says
Actualky, we knew Hillary was a corrupt incompetent long before her stint at Secretary of State.
What Is Tbh Means says
Since in most cases discourse is used to define reality itself,
it is closely associated with different theories of state
and power. Everyone wants to get their website to the Google Page
one of the search results on Google. Text lingo hmu
It is rarely we come across an American reluctant to trust
the product or brand, Levi. In any case, I dont think the specific
religion referenced is critical to the rest of my
discussion.