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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.
