Monday, September 18, 2017

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE TELLING HILLARY THAT BENGHAZI ISN'T GOING AWAY - MY OBJECTION TO THE NAVEL-GAZING AMERICAN APPROACH IN ALL ITS CONFLICTS WHEN IT LOSES A FEW LIVES



COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RINF


Sorry, Hillary, But Benghazi Isn’t Going Away

I'm always troubled that American critics of Hillary focus on the American security arrangements in events at Benghazi.

The terrible thing about Benghazi wasn't a few Americans killed while conducting nefarious business.

It was the nefarious business itself.

Gathering arms and thugs from destroyed, war-torn Libya to transship into Syria.

The purpose in Syria was the five years of horror we've experienced with about 400,000 people killed. Lots of women and children, too, but Hillary never was one to worry much about that kind of detail.

Both the horror created in Syria and the horror created in Libya drove millions from their homes to become refugees, nearly destabilizing Europe and generating waves of hatred of migrants in the United States.

The four Americans killed - while they were doing dark, murderous-inducing stuff - was the tiniest part of the whole thing.

It is always interesting and disturbing the way Americans - even critics of American policy - focus on what happened to some Americans, almost always ignoring what those Americans were doing to others.

In Vietnam, over ten years of horror, a relatively small 60,000 Americans died, and there was always huge concern and chest-beating over that.

But those Americans died in a cause that would kill 3,000,000 Vietnamese in their own homeland and leave their country a dumping ground of bombs, landmines, and Agent Orange to keep killing for decades.
The Americans also helped kill a 1,000,000 Cambodians by destabilizing that neutral country with bombing and constant incursions, effectively giving it over to the Khmar Rouge.

No sense of proportion ever, and no sense of regret or shame for the horrors inflicted on others – that is a consistent pattern in America.