Posted on 10/27/2012 9:49:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Great image. Someone should make up an O bumper sticker:
“COward in Chief”
The Night of the Living Dead comes to mind.
Cordially,
Good one, Neil!
"Legitimate" means a real consular office for real consular work. An example would be the US consulate in Toronto. I am not as sure as you are that you could get a visa from the Benghazi "consulate". Do you really think there was an urgent need to issue visas in Benghazi? Other wise known as "terror central".
The consulate was clearly sort of a “back room” for the embassy. The papers were there and it seems that a lot of meetings took place there. Probably the diplomats assumed that the embassy was more likely to be under attack and had less protection, so they moved sensitive things to the consulate and made regular visits to it (Stevens was in Benghazi to dedicate a cultural center) to make sure it was perceived as part of the loop and thereby protected by the US.
Sorry, you are making no sense at all. The "consulate" was poorly defended and in a very high risk location. Moving "sensitive things" to Benghazi makes absolutely no sense. There had been numerous terror attacks in Benghazi on western targets. Do you really think Stevens, who sent repeated reports of poor security and terror activity, was sanguine with the situation? Do you buy the cover story that he went there, on 9/11 of all days, to dedicate a "cultural center"?
Stevens was not stupid. There is no way he would go to Benghazi, without security, on 9/11 to dedicate a "cultural center". Give me a break. He was there for a far more important reason.
Don’t forget that the jihadis were searching for papers after the attack, which is when they found Stevens’ body, because they knew that this was the purpose of the place.
They knew the purpose of the place was as a CIA listening post. That means there would be interesting documents there. The ambassador's death was either collateral damage or a bonus to AQ.
However, does this mean it should have been allowed to be overrun by AQ? Does this mean the US has no obligation to support the people there, just because their main job is not issuing visas?
On the contrary. I believe both installations were CIA intelligence gathering posts. It's a good thing that the CIA is in the field, gathering intelligence against the enemies of western civilization. They should have been better protected. Obama should have sent in the cavalry to save them. He didn't help precisely because it was a CIA operation and he didn't want to get his hands dirty.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Do you think this made it OK for Obama to allow the Ambassador, the consulate building and its defenders to be taken out?
Umm, no, see above. What I am getting at is that this was CIA from start to finish and Obama hung them out to dry, wrongly.
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