It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he
was “offended” by the suggestion that his administration would try
to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has
this man not deceived the public about?
Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term
in office? This was followed by the first trillion dollar deficit
ever, under any President of the United States — followed by
trillion dollar deficits in every year of the Obama
administration.
Remember his pledge to have a “transparent” government that
would post its legislative proposals on the Internet several days
before Congress was to vote on them, so that everybody would know
what was happening? This was followed by an Obamacare bill so huge
and passed so fast that even members of Congress did not have time
to read it.
Remember his claims that previous administrations had arrogantly
interfered in the internal affairs of other nations — and then his
demands that Israel stop building settlements and give away land
outside its 1967 borders, as a precondition to peace talks with the
Palestinians, on whom there were no preconditions?
As for what happened in Libya, the Obama administration says
that there is an “investigation” under way. An “on-going
investigation” sounds so much better than “stonewalling” to get
past election day. But you can bet the rent money that this
“investigation” will not be completed before election day. And
whatever the investigation says after the election will be
irrelevant.
The events unfolding in Benghazi on the tragic night of
September 11th were being relayed to the State Department as the
attacks were going on, “in real time,” as they say. So the idea
that the Obama administration now has to carry out a time-consuming
“investigation” to find out what those events were, when the
information was immediately available at the time, is a little
much.
The full story of what happened in Libya, down to the last
detail, may never be known. But, as someone once said, you don’t
need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten. And you don’t
need to know every detail of the events before, during and after
the attacks to know that the story put out by the Obama
administration was a fraud.
The administration’s initial story that what happened in
Benghazi began as a protest against an anti-Islamic video in
America was a very convenient theory. The most obvious alternative
explanation would have been devastating to Barack Obama’s much
heralded attempts to mollify and pacify Islamic nations in the
Middle East.
To have helped overthrow pro-Western governments in Egypt and
Libya, only to bring anti-Western Islamic extremists to power would
have been revealed as a foreign policy disaster of the first
magnitude. To have been celebrating President Obama’s supposedly
heroic role in the killing of Osama bin Laden, with the implication
that Al Qaeda was crippled, would have been revealed as a
farce.
Osama bin Laden was by no means the first man to plan a surprise
attack on America and later be killed. Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto
planned the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States
into World War II, and he was later tracked down and shot down in a
plane that was carrying him.
Nobody tried to depict President Franklin D. Roosevelt as some
kind of hero for having simply authorized the killing of Yamamoto.
In that case, the only hero who was publicized was the man who shot
down the plane that Yamamoto was in.
Yet the killing of Osama bin Laden has been depicted as some
kind of act of courage by President Obama. After bin Laden was
located, why would any President not give the go-ahead to get
him?
That took no courage at all. It would have been far more
dangerous politically for Obama not to have given the go-ahead.
Moreover, Obama hedged his bets by authorizing the admiral in
charge of the operation to proceed only under various
conditions.
This meant that success would be credited to Obama and failure
could be blamed on the admiral — who would join George W. Bush,
Hillary Clinton and other scapegoats for Obama’s failures.
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