Benghazi Coverup

 

                                                  Now Hiring:

                                     Adult Leadership Required

 

            Tomorrow is election day. The country is evenly divided, which indicates what a no-show the Obama administration has been.

            Whoever we elect president, the U.S.A. isn’t going to split apart like an egg.

            The election has resulted in some great photo ops: ecstatic crowds, flags, the candidates gesticulating in a variety of ways, close-ups of the concerned faces of stalwart Americans.

            The attack ads on television drum their messages into our homes: What a predatory capitalist bastard Romney is, what a two-faced do-nothing spendthrift currently resides in the White House. “Romney will do away with Planned Parenthood… Under Romney, health care costs will skyrocket…”

            “We can’t afford four more years of Obama… Under Obama, the national debt has skyrocketed, unemployment remains at record levels and the middle class is struggling…”

            Romney uses the Ronald Reagan playbook: Looking kind and unruffled, he speaks earnestly, proposing such outlandishly conservative actions, no one believes YOU WILL ACTUALLY DO THOSE THINGS: Disband the Environmental Protection Agency on Day One. Give the oil and gas industries free reign to drill and fracture everywhere, on shore and off. Privatize Medicare, using vouchers, so the private insurance companies make billions and consumers pay through the nose.

            Surprise!!! A-hole means all the terrible things he is saying!

            As for Obama… ugh!

            The presidency suffers from arrested development:

            Bill Clinton was our first college boy president, pulling all-nighters, gorging on junk food, frolicking with the ladies.

            George W. Bush was a 17-year-old, riding his bike, cracking jokes, clearing brush on his ranch, reading children’s books to 3rd-graders.

            Obama is our first 8-year-old president, parading, flying around in Air Force One, making grand speeches, posing endlessly, cluelessly playing at being an adult.

                                                       *

            The latest scandal is Benghazi, Libya. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post is busy conducting interviews. Word is, this will dwarf Watergate.

            In commemoration of 9/11, a large Arab militia carried out a planned attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The consulate called desperately for help at 9:40 p.m. A CIA “stronghold” a mile away sent operatives— including former Navy Seals— who fought off the attackers, pulled one guy out of the burning compound, searched unsuccessfully for the others, and then waged a 7-hour firefight, returning to the CIA location.

            A cry for reinforcements was sent to the Situation Room at the White House. Incredibly, American forces in the Mediterranean and Italy— who could have flown to Benghazi while the battle still raged— were instructed by Washington to “stand down.”

            What happened in the White House?

            (1) First scenario: The cables came in, but went unread. This seems extremely unlikely, since the Situation Room is manned 24-7.

            (2) Second scenario: The messages were received, but somehow never made it to the president. Not a very credible supposition, although on the day Osama bin Laden was killed, the Secret Service had to pull President Obama off the golf course and take him to the Situation Room in his golf clothes.

            (3) Third possibility: Informed of Benghazi, Obama and his staff dithered, worried about escalating hostilities in the Arab world. In the end, they did nothing, leaving the battle to the troops on the ground.

                                                       *

            In Benghazi, just before dawn, a mortar attack on the CIA annex killed two ex-Navy Seals, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who were firing from the roof. Quick action in Washington could have prevented those deaths. Scuttlebutt indicates that by then, American forces had killed over one hundred of the armed insurgents.

                                                        *

            In the days following September 11, 2012, the U.S. apologized over American-run Radio Sawa, throughout the Middle East, for the anti-Muslim video on YouTube. Alerted to the presence of this insult to the Prophet Mohammed, crowds demonstrated their anger and resentment.

            This stupid video had absolutely nothing to do with the attack in Benghazi.

                                                         * 

                                ADULT LEADERSHIP REQUIRED

                                                         *