By James Lewis
It is now apparent that the president of the United States
countermanded standing Pentagon orders to help American personnel under
attack. Ambassador Stevens and three others were left to die without
AC-130 Spectres and rescue teams that are always on standby in the
Africom theater. Only the White House could have countermanded those
standing orders, and we know that POTUS had an emergency meeting with
Panetta and Hillary within 55 minutes of the start of the attack.
AFRICOM's General Carter F. Ham was fired -- presumably for wanting to
rescue the Americans under fire.
Ambassador Stevens and his people were left to die to protect a
deep-cover NSC-CIA operation. But what could be so important that 32
Americans had to be abandoned to the mercy of al-Qaeda? Benghazi
was a major gun-running operation, funneling armaments from the crushed
Libyan regime of Moammar Gaddafi to rebel forces opposing Syria's
Assad. Ambassador Stevens was negotiating with a whole Star Wars
barroom thug collection of bad actors, a reported ten different jihadist
militias operating in Benghazi.
The most damning Benghazi revelation is
the Obama policy that led to the disaster: Obama's four-year policy of
secretly supporting violent Islamists against civilized Muslims, like
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and modern-minded people in countries
like Turkey and Iran. We used to support moderate Muslims until Obama
took over; now we support our deadly enemies. In Benghazi,
some of those gangster types turned against us, tore the cover off the
operation, burned out Ambassador Stevens, and killed American defenders
with mortar fire. Our defenders had the AQIM mortar crew laser-marked
for jet bombers and gunships that never showed up.
Too bad the American people expected him to fight for our side. His heart is not with all of the American people.
He's been badmouthing us for 4 years, and now this.
I hope people will realize the option they have to have someone who will
support his Oath of Office next time. That will only be if we elect
Mitt Romney.
Otherwise, it's four more years of him hobnobbing with states that have
always been terrorist sponsors and whose sole mission in life is to hurt
Americans and America any which way they can.
Obama picked in favor of the terrorists and not America's ambassador, his man and his representative in Benghazi.
How sad.
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