Theories/ideas continued:
3. The CIA operation in Benghazi was involved with:
a - collaborating with Arab countries on the recruitment of fighters – including jihadists – to target Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
b. Along with the British, trying to locate and secure any missing chemical WMDs, 15,000 missing MANPADS (5,000 have been found), and any other heavy weapons since the fall of Libya that could fall into the wrong hands.
c. Reports of gunrunning from Benghazi to Turkey to Syrian rebels, and even the Sinai Peninsula - Obama covertly arming Syrian rebels to overthrow Assad in Syria without drawing too much fire from Russia or the Muslim world.
So:
4. Russia had an interest to protect their biggest ally Syria by disrupting the flow of arms into Syrian rebel hands through covert means.
5. Syria had an interest to bust up the CIA operation covertly so as not draw the US, NATO, or Libya involvement into their civil war with the anti-Assad rebels.
6. Iran had an interest in protecting itself from a new US supported regime in Syria
7. Any number of radical Islamist groups/militias including Al Qaeda trying to arm themselves
8. Just pure anti-American hatred
9. Romney’s policy was practically the same as Obama so he didn’t hit him too hard during the debates about Benghazi or Syria. Actually, Romnney said he would openly arm the rebels, as long as the weapons didn’t fall into the wrong hands.
YUP...! Fantastic post.