Quote:I don't particularly care about Benghazi one way or the other at this point. Hillary's a snake regardless of her role in it, and she has no business being President. I'm just overwhelmed by the hypocrisy of Republicans who want to burn her at the stake for it while celebrating Bush as some kind of hero for his actions following a disaster he came within inches of engineering.

 

You should.  That area of the world has become a very dangerous place, and the fact that so many "refugees" are spreading into Europe as well as into our own country is very troubling.  What is also disturbing is how our President is addressing the situation, but that's a whole other topic.

 

You can try to continue to deflect from the topic all you want, but the situation had almost nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11/01 or the response of the former administration, other than the fact that the former administration acted on the intelligence that they had at the time.

 

Regarding the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, there were certainly warning signs, messages asking for higher security, etc. directed specifically to the State Department.  There was no doubt that it wasn't a matter of "if" something was going to happen, it was a matter of "when".  It happened on 9/11/12.  Coincidence?

 

Of course, the media can't report on the incompetence of a Secretary of State running in an election for President.  The media runs with the same playbook and downplays everything, and what is worse is that the general public buys it.  How much of the public really believes that this attack was the result of a video posted on Youtube?  My guess is sadly, many do because of the low information voter.

 

The real battle within the region is complicated, but it boils down to the people in the region want to be more "westernized" or more "European" while some of the leaders want strict Islamic (Sharia) law everywhere.

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