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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Hillary’s ‘Serious Lack of Competence’ Cost Lives at Benghazi

Jun 30, 2016 11:26 am By Robert Spencer

But she is only the tip of the iceberg. Over at FrontPage, I explain why.

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Former CIA officer D. W. Wilber noted in The Hill Monday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s actions leading up to the Benghazi attack, and the Obama administration’s foreign policy in Libya as a whole were “lunacy on a grand scale”: “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.” Hillary’s “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.” But it wasn’t. It was a professional mistake.

In reality, Hillary’s actions in Libya were an implementation of the policy called for by foreign policy professionals for years: 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 including the likes of the puerile and silly 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.

The foreign policy establishment is a bipartisan creation, and both parties refuse to challenge its hegemony. The Republicans, as the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearings showed Tuesday, continue instead to let Hillary and Obama off the hook, and don’t even come close to challenging the entrenched foreign policy bureaucracy. Breitbart News noted that the final report from Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)’s committee refused “to blame President Obama or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as refus[ed] to say directly if Clinton lied to the American people regarding the Benghazi attacks.”

The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell said of Gowdy after the Tuesday hearing: “It was up to him to get to the truth, and he punted. Just as with the IRS investigation, the Republicans lacked the fortitude to confront those responsible.”

Bozell detailed the many failures of Gowdy’s inquiry: “The causes, events and circumstances regarding the attacks on the American personnel and facilities at Benghazi are still a mystery to the American people. Who denied the multiple requests for additional security for the compound? No answer. Who is being held responsible for the deaths of these men? No answer. Why did this administration deliberately lie about the video? No answer. Should the Commander-in-Chief be held responsible for the multiple failures of the military? Should the Secretary of State be held responsible for the disastrous consequences of State Department decisions? Not according to this report. They wouldn’t even state that Hillary Clinton lied about the video though her own emails, read by committee members, prove she had! But they did blame a ‘rusty bureaucratic process.’”

That “rusty bureaucratic process” is a product of the foreign policy establishment that 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.

Even worse, right after the Benghazi massacre, the father of one of those slain there recounted that Secretary of State Clinton spoke to him at a memorial service about the Muhammad filmmaker, saying, “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted.” And she did. The filmmaker, who went by several different names, had a record full of run-ins with the law, and at the time of the Benghazi attacks was out on parole. A condition of his parole, however, was that he not go on the Internet – which he apparently did in order to upload the notorious video to YouTube.

For that, he was arrested and imprisoned for several months, thereby becoming the first political prisoner in the U.S. for Obama’s war on free speech and enforcement of Sharia blasphemy laws. There can be no doubt that he was imprisoned not for the technicality of the probation violation (while thousands of more serious probation violators walked the streets), but for insulting Muhammad. His arrest was a symbol of America’s capitulation to the Sharia. He was nothing more than the fall guy who became the first offender against the new de facto federal crime of blasphemy against Islam.

That, too, was a reflection of the foreign policy establishment’s determination to compel Americans to stop doing anything and everything that any Muslim might construe as offensive to Islam. Reflecting the establishment policy also were Hillary’s fatuous words: “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people, and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” In response to that, Donald Trump recently opined that Hillary was “in total denial, and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world — true weakness.” Clinton wants, he said, “to take away American’s guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. Let them come into the country, we don’t have guns. Let them come in, let them have all the fun they want….The bottom line is that Hillary supports policies that bring the threat of radical Islam into American and allow it to grow overseas, and it is growing.”

Trump’s point was sound. In what way was it not? Combining unrestricted immigration and a massive influx of Muslim migrants, among whom the Islamic State has promised to embed jihadis, with a disarmed American population is simply an invitation to jihad massacres on a frequency never hitherto imagined. Could there be an Orlando-style attack every day? Why not, in the America of the near future that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are busy preparing for us?

Trump declared: “The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why she believes immigration from these dangerous countries should be increased without any effective system really to screen.” Again, his point his sound: all those, including Hillary, who are busy excoriating Trump for the “racism” and “bigotry” of his immigration proposal have not bothered to suggest any alternative plan for preventing jihadis from entering the country. Hillary and the rest of the political and media elites would rather see Americans subjected to jihad mass murder on a huge scale than do anything that is politically incorrect.

The foreign policy establishment that is irrevocably committed to these politically correct fantasies must be swept out. And to elect Hillary Clinton President of the United States would be, in D. W. Wilber’s words, “lunacy on a grand scale.”

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  1. ich says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:31 am

    If Hillary was elected and there was a mass slaughter no one would bat an eye.
    Even if the liberal messiah George Clooney was killed they would still blame nonsense.

    I dont know what it is but Islam gets a free ride.

    What will it take for Liberals to accept its dangerous ?

    • mortimer says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 11:41 am

      If Hillary were to be elected, the terrorists would immediately undertake major operations around the world and in the US, China and North Korea would leap into action to intimidate their neighbors, Saudi Arabia and Iran would immediately plan the next supremacist disinformation campaigns and terrorists fundings. American Leftists and jihadists in the US would immediately start to plot ways to further weaken free speech.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 11:52 am

        A lot of didactical hypotheticals.

    • bridgette says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 8:07 pm

      It would take more money then they are getting from the pislamic states. Greedy power hungry liberals.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:43 am

    When Wikileaks releases Hillary’s emails, it will force the US attorney general and FBI to pursue a thorough investigation to see if Hillary is guilty of conspiracy to run her own foreign policy without the knowledge of the president and cabinet.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Head bump Hillary’s (Three-Card Monty) diversion..
    In order to hide her culpability she finds a PC acceptable target and shoots off a blazing show of ‘righteous’ ANGER.

    Secretary of State Clinton said about the Muhammad filmmaker, “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted.” And she did.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Is it lack of competence or running her own agenda, in opposition to the best interests of the American people?

  5. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:55 am

    If Hillary did not protect the lives US diplomatic diplomats, she will not defend ordinary Americans when they are in danger of being murdered by jihad-terrorists.

    • Daniel Riemer says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 2:27 pm

      Mortimer, I agree with you 100% we need to keep this country safe and not worry so much about political correctness !

  6. WorkingClassPost says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    Greed, power, corruption, cowardice; it’s difficult to be certain which, or in what order they are driven.

    But Stupidity is in there too, for where, and on which planet, do they hope to find sufficient safety and security to enjoy their filthy lucre?

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 2:24 pm

    As before explained but of such importance that it’s worth reiterating. Which is that fiendish and narcissistic pathological liar ,Hillary Clinton , was one again caught lying. This time about that murderous Benghazi consulate attack. As exposed in the booklet punished by the group called ‘Liberty Guard.’ That booklet is entitled HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON : A HISTORY OF SCANDAL , CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM. For it informs the reader that “On September 11, 2012 ,Islamic terrorists launched an attack against the U,S Consulate in Benghazi. ,Libya…” Of course Americans were murdered in that jihad attack.. This booklet further exposes that “Security for U. S. Embassies and diplomatic personal was the responsibility of the U.S State Department under Hillary . Repeated request for more security at the consulate were denied by the State Department under Hillary. Public records reveal; that Hillary knew there was a well -planned terrorist attack planed for that day. But on September 14, 2012 [two full days after the attack]. , Hillary lied to America claiming that the attack was a result of ‘rage and violence over an awful Internet video’ – referring to an anti-Islam video in YouTube that almost no one has sen.” So that lying ,Hillary again lied to cover the truth about her total incompetence..

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    How completely incompetent unfit and worthless Hillary has proven herself to be to hold the office in the State Department. Nevertheless ,she still the gall to actually want to be hold the Office of the President of the United States. Hillary which her chronic lying guile and unconscionable behavior as well as her terrible polices and politics she would only be a total disaster as President. A vote of Hilary Clinton is a vote for a catastrophe to come upon America.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Just today in bought a new book entitle CRISIS OF CHARACTER. written by a former Secret Service officer, Gary J. Byrne, who saw and experienced first hand what an awful despicable person and politician Hillary actually is. Moreover, is totally amazing just how many people can’t see through Hillary’s fake smile she present to the public. Hillary has such a bogus smile that she,very much reminds me of that old song from the early 1970’s .For the words of it do applies to that deceptive politician Hillary.
    They are “A smile is a frown turned upside down, smiling faces tell lies…”

  10. Pat says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 10:41 am

    “Hillary’s ‘Serious Lack of Competence’ Cost Lives at Benghazi.”
    Yeah, and George Bush and Condoleezza Rice’s incompetence cost nearly 3000 lives on American soil when they ignored the CIA Presidential brief in August, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” That as well as multiple other warnings form the CIA in the months leading up to 9-11. Four American lives lost in Libya, 3000 lost on home soil. Neither is good, but the right wing hang-up on Benghazi rings hollow every time I think of 9-11 and the ensuing wars that have left another 6000 American’s dead.

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