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Dangerous Times: Still Missing the Strategic Meaning of Benghazi
American Thinker ^ | May 3, 2014 | James Lewis

Posted on 05/03/2014 5:44:47 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

Strategy comes before tactics. Strategic goals dictate tactical actions. Today we are allowed to talk about the obvious tactical lies and malfeasances that the Obama administration blew in our faces in the Benghazi fiasco and its aftermath, but not about its strategic meaning. But Obama’s secret policies have also been exposed to public view with the Benghazi fiasco. It is now clear that since Obama came to power, the U.S. government has overturned all the fundamental values that have characterized American policy from Thomas Jefferson onward. Under Obama we have secretly joined the terrorist side in the Jihad War. That is the strategic meaning of Benghazi.

In any other administration that would be unbelievable, but consider the facts.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi
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To: sport
A miracle in even greater magnitude than the impeachment miracle.

Well, then, let us pray for some miracles.

21 posted on 05/03/2014 6:48:18 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Starboard
I understand the author's basic premise, but I don't see why it would be such a big deal. And it certainly wouldn't be a radical departure from long-standing U.S. foreign policy for the United States to be radical Islamic elements in the Middle East.

I would make the case that the real turning point was back in 1990 -- when the U.S. engaged in a massive military campaign against a largely secular dictator in Iraq to restore and protect radical Islamic royal families in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Fast-forward 20+ years and you have almost the same thing happening in Syria.

22 posted on 05/03/2014 6:49:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: SatinDoll

The man who knew too much.


23 posted on 05/03/2014 6:50:01 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: exit82
Pray fervently, early, and often.
24 posted on 05/03/2014 6:50:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport

Amen to that.

The resurrection of Benghazi is the opening.

Thank you, Lord.


25 posted on 05/03/2014 6:51:35 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: sport
It would be a miracle.

Let us all pray for that to happen.

26 posted on 05/03/2014 6:57:07 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

While we are being distracted by Putin, Sterling, and whatever Hollywood squirrel of the day, Obama is deconstructing not only the US, but the Western world. Unless Obama and his policies are stopped, nothing else is going to matter.


27 posted on 05/03/2014 7:12:40 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Starboard
"If it ever does, its all over for them."

You're assuming that there still exists an objective truth in America.

You're wrong.

Everything depends on POV, and the left will NEVER turn on their own.

This episode will clearly demonstrate that the American people no longer exists, it's only them vs us.

28 posted on 05/03/2014 7:25:58 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Hotlanta Mike

No one seems to be talking about how, by blaming a video insult for murder, then declaring the producer of the video as the principal cause of the death, excuses an entire culture of barbarity.

It’s as if we now accept that if they’re insulted and kill us, somehow it’s our fault.

Benghazi revealed this to be ADMINISTRATION POLICY. This is why Obama is seemingly unconcerned with bringing the real culprits to justice. He doesn’t blame them, he feels for them. Do we need further evidence that he’s pro Islam and anti American?


29 posted on 05/03/2014 7:41:42 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Stop....take a deep breath.....re-read what Lewis wrote. Hillary and Obama aided and abetted AL QAEDA in Libya. Think about that for a minute. That would be like FDR aiding and abetting the Nazis in Greece during WWII. Remember Al Qaeda? The guys who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center? The guys we have been fighting for 11 years or so? The guys who have been murdering Americans? Hillary and Obama provided support to AL QAEDA in Libya. That is treason. Stop and think about it. Then, Al Qaeda spit in their eye and murdered four more Americans.

Treason. Our President and Secretary of State supported Al Qaeda.

The purpose of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans to public office. It’s not their job to discipline the Democrat Party. It’s the FBI’s job to watch over treasonous behavior in our country. It is OUR JOB as American citizens to demand that these traitors be dealt with. I don’t care that the traitor is half black. I don’t care that the traitor is female. I don’t care that the Democrat party will fight like a cornered rattlesnake to cover all this up.

Treason. They were willing to sell you and I and our families and friends into defeat, slavery and death. I don’t care if they are hardened saboteurs or just idiots playing with fire, the intent to commit treason is still there.

WAKE UP.


30 posted on 05/03/2014 8:20:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

No wonder Barry wants Eric Holder to “review” the death penalty.


31 posted on 05/03/2014 10:44:15 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Soul of the South
"...Romney kept his gloves on...", because Obama wasn't a conservative or tea partier, therefore not an opponent.
32 posted on 05/03/2014 12:06:29 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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