Michael Walsh- “A coward dies a thousand deaths,” to paraphrase Shakespeare in
Julius Caesar,
“but a hero dies just one.” As we hopefully approach the end of the
Barack Hussein Obama II administration, cowardice is just one of the
many possible explanations of its catastrophic failure at Benghazi last
month, a failure that cost the lives of four Americans, the loss of
valuable intelligence assets, the burning of countless Libyan
collaborators, whose lives are now forfeit in that wretched land and
elsewhere, and the needless handing to the ascendant jihadists of a
propaganda victory that might have been avoided and has yet to be
avenged.
But wait — it gets worse. According to
this story, they knew an attack likely was coming — and still did nothing:
The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency
meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador
Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training
camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a
“coordinated attack,” according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox
News.
Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission
in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked “SECRET” said that the State
Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not
believe the consulate could be protected.
“RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability
to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited
manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support,
and the overall size of the compound,” the cable said.
It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of what Obama’s handling of what is sure to go down as
one of the most disgraceful episodes
in American political and military history tells us about him, his
administration, the ethos of the modern Democratic Party, and the state
of our nation. The short answer: nothing good.
Understanding the implications of the Benghazi story — which my colleague Roger Simon has outlined
here and
here and
here
— the MSM (except for Fox News) has done its best to ignore it. They
know that, rightly presented to the American people, the fiasco — in
which our ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three others who died
fighting like men instead of like politicians – rightly should spell
the end of the Obama administration. And regarding Roger’s suggestion of
impeachment, it’s worth remembering that the Watergate burglary — the
thing that ultimately ended Nixon’s presidency via resignation (under
the threat of impeachment by the House) in 1974 — took place five
months
before his landslide victory in 1972. In other words, one doesn’t have to look very far for a precedent, should it come to that.
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