Posted on 01/22/2016 2:26:51 PM PST by Kaslin
Benghazi and its aftermath in some ways exemplifies foreign policy during the Obama years: the public never get a straight answer.
That is why the new movie, "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," is so important. It answers the question the administration refuses to: What happened that night in Benghazi, Libya as Americans fought for their lives for thirteen hours against a well-coordinated attack on September 11, 2012?
Yes, it's a movie and undoubtedly includes inaccuracies and exaggeration, but I'll gladly put it up for an accuracy contest against the bogus Benghazi talking points delivered on September 15, 2012, on the Sunday morning shows by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.
The movie is based on "13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Happened," by former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff, who worked with five CIA security contractors who survived the attacks. Four men died that night, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, the first American ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979. Kris “Tanto†Paronto, one of the surviving contractors, has vouched for the accuracy of the movie.
Directed and co-produced by action filmmaker Michael Bay of "Transformers" fame, "13 Hours" is riveting and at times almost unbearably scary. "I feel like I am in a f------ horror movie," a soldier says. I'd say it was a macho movie, given the culture of the contractors, but I went with a girlfriend and we were both entirely absorbed. The Benghazi soldiers compare themselves to the men at the Alamo, another place where help never arrived.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are never mentioned, though Obama's words about the U.S. helping to topple Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi, and thus giving the Libyans a chance to establish democracy, are superimposed with devastating effect over footage of a country that has disintegrated into one big arms bazaar ruled by competing militias. Apparently, Colin Powell's Pottery Barn Rule (if you break it, you own it) doesn't apply to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton.
One of the most effective aspects of "13 Hours" is that it does not deal with what the contractors did not know. We know from subsequent testimony before Congress that Gregory Hicks, back at the embassy in Tripoli, who became the top U.S. diplomat in Libya upon the death of Stevens, talked to the State Department that night. But we never know what kind of conversations the CIA station chief--identified in the movie only as "Bob"--might have been having with Washington. When Bob orders the contractors not to go to the diplomatic installation to try to rescue the ambassador, we don't know on whose authority he was acting. What we do know is that the soldiers were left to fight alone for thirteen long hours, with no help from their government. Some have said that a flyover by U.S. planes might have dispersed the militants and prevented the mortar attack on the CIA Annex that came late in the action and killed two men.
The action, as you probably already know, takes place at and between a diplomatic installation and a CIA Annex a few miles away. One of the most frightening scenes is when two contractors drive through the violent streets of Benghazi between the two compounds. Why would they even have tried to save Stevens with the cards so stacked against them? "You can put a price on being able to live with yourself," says one of them. That in a nutshell is the theme of the movie.
Apparently, Washington officials, one of whom wants to be our next president, suffer from fewer moral scruples. Now that we have a compelling account of the harrowing thirteen hours on the ground at Benghazi, we deserve to know about the thirteen hours of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Will somebody just ask at a press conference, "What did you do that night? What time did you go to bed when Americans were fighting for their lives in a country we had supposedly liberated?"
At the end of the movie, one of the contractors notices that, even while being rescued, he will fly out in a Libyan plane. The Americans have still not come. This too says much about the true Obama foreign policy legacy, where so much of the world is wondering when, if ever, American leadership will show up. They'll have to wait another year, at least.
Will somebody just ask at a press conference, “What did you do that night? What time did you go to bed when Americans were fighting for their lives in a country we had supposedly liberated?”
It’s still all about CBA, and the “professional reporters” are just now catching on and stumbling toward the obvious.
Benghazi’s Smoking Gun? Only President Can Give Cross-Border Authority
That’s ANOTHER reason why we need Trump. We need someone to pull back the rug and expose all the stuff that’s been swept under it....along with F&F, and a plethora of other stuff.
What? No Beer Summit with the terrorists?
oboofer’s boyfriend reggie said they were playing hearts at the time. So you can’t blame oboofer for this.
obama = slept for a las vegas fund raiser
hillary = passed out drunk
what are we talking about here with “cross border authority”...
our AMBASSADOR WAS UNDER ATTACK...
Libya was falling apart in civil war
the eastern side of the coutnry was under al queda control
so what “authority”are they alluding to.... just libtard b.s.
can you say gulf of sitra and ronald reagan.... boys and girls...???
AUTHORITY COMES OUT OF THE END OF A 9 MM OR A C130 GUNSHIP
no man left behing .......
OBAMA = I LEAVE EVERYONE AND ANYONE BEHIND AND I LEAD FROM BEHIND BENT OVER WITH DROPTROW AND LUBED AT THE READY .... LIKE CHICAGO
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
QMC, smoking a pole.
If you EVER get a straight answer that would sink the DNC-ass-party faster than Titanic, and some RINOs would drown as well. The real truth is guarded more than Ft. Knox and MUST be guarded at any cost !!!
“Zero Footstep” ???
There is one key factoid that has been left out of just about every discussion I have ever seen on Benghazi.
It's this:
Hillary Clinton and Barack hussein knowingly appointed an openly gay friend of Barry's from Chicago, Chris Stevens, to be an ambassador in a country that was ripe with terrorists who hate infidels and hate gay infidels even more.
Furthermore they had him work in unison with a CIA smuggling ring that shipped stolen weapons from Qdaffi all over the mid east.
We see the result of that appointment.
Yet its seldom mentioned anywhere that I have read.
The fact that Stevens was gay is an aside to how he was treated by his superiors which is criminal at best.
What is important is that he was put in harms way by an openly gay potus and a bisexual Sec. of State who had to know better.So what was the true nature of the mission?
Was it to get rid of an openly gay ambassador who knew too much had made waaay too many connections in the mid-east and Africa, knew waay too many about the players,had turned to Islam himself?
We will never know.
All we do know is that his 600 requests for increased security went in the circular file.
For two uber libs who are supposed to be the protectors of gays, trans whatevers and those who have chosen other life styles, they produced epic fail.
We went to watch 13 hours yesterday. Two and a half hours of intense emotion. I was totally drained afterwards. A must see for all patriots. There was never any mention of Obama nor Clinton, but the inference was that our government left those brave men to fend for themselves. Awesome movie!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.