October 10, 2012 - 2:34 pm
Is al Qaeda more or less established in Libya now than before our involvement? Answer: More.
There goes the Obama campaign’s case that al Qaeda is decimated.
Democrats tried to blame budget cuts for the lack of security at Benghazi. Are they right? Answer: No.
The woman who answers the question off-camera is Charlene Lamb, the State Department’s Assistant Director for International Programs. She was among the officials in Washington denying field requests for more security.
What was the Obama plan for security in Libya: “Hope that everything will get better.”
It didn’t.
This Benghazi thing is why Axelrod is playing with fire if he has Obama or Biden talk about lying right in front of Romney’s or Ryan’s face. The return serve is easy to imagine, and deadly if executed with style. Unrecoverable if executed with passion.
– let the thing be pressed — with passion!
The incompetence of this administration knows no bounds. Not only is their foreign policy an abject failure but it didn’t seem to dawn on them that State Department employees might not let them get away with the Big Lie after one of their own -Ambassador Stevens was a career diplomat – had been murdered.
Colin Powell, during one of his regular CYA exercises, came up with the Pottery Barn rule: “if you break it, you own it.” (I’ve never been completely convinced as to the principle’s application in Iraq. I think the Bush administration made a long commitment and real effort to put Iraq to rights.)
But here it clearly applies. Obama broke Libya by intervening in its civil war. Now he owns it. But he and his administration, including State, seem to have abandoned all responsibility for the protection of American interests there, including security for our diplomatic mission.