5 thoughts on “The Benghazi Baloney”

  1. I’m sick of the naval gazing. Why is always going to be indeterminate. They did what they did. End of story. They should be tarred and feather and driven away from any reins of power never to return.

    What is wrong with American voters? Another pointless question. Is there anything we can do?

    I want to go door to door slapping people until they’re all as outraged as I am.

  2. Y’all see the clips “in the Right-Wing Echo Chamber” of Dennis Kucinich on the Wallace Fox News Sunday (FNS) Sunday?

    One mode of Liberal/Left discourse is the partisan stance of President Obama (or any other elected Democrat) can do no wrong. Another mode is to stand on principle. There are people around here “on both sides of the aisle” who can do the partisan thang. There are people on the Right side of the aisle who are strong “principle people” — Carl Pham was such — where are you Carl, how have your been, how is life treating you? Is there anyone on the Left side around here who “does principle”?

    The other thing, is that there are a lot of people of Croatian heritage serving Ohio in political office. There are people of Croatian, Serbian, and other South-Slav heritage in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, California, and other states, but Cleveland is the only city in which hotel clerks know how to spell my name.

    There are many partisans on the Liberal-Left who were for the Iraq war before turning against it, but there are very few who raised any questions about the Bosnia near-war (Dayton Accord enforcement) and the Kosovo War of Spring 1999.

    I find the near unanimity of the Ohio political leaders of Croatian heritage in raising concerns about those “actions” heartening. It could be that Ohio has citizens of both Croatian and Serbian heritage and that those political leaders believe they need to represent both communities. On the other hand, I had seen the Croatian community out in force demonstrating against Jim Moody seeking the Senate seat won by Russ Feingold, equating Moody’s experience as a Peace Corps volunter in Serbia as “supporting Serb-perpetrated genocide.” But maybe in Ohio, Croatians and Serbs are able to live together in peace and work to a common purpose, which is not the case in the former Yugoslavia. Or in Wisconsin.

    For those of you representing the Left-Liberal viewpoint on this site in counter to the prevailing “Right Wing Echo Chamber opinion” around here, what say you about the Bosnia and Kosovo wars? Are Bosnia and Kosovo “OK” because that was “under Clinton”, Iraq not OK because that was “under Bush”, and Afghanistan OK because it was started by Mr. Bush but Mr. Obama told us it was OK?

    For those of you not simply defending Liberalism but being partisans for the Democrats and Democractic political leaders, some of that is OK. In politics, parties (in the U.S. at least) are about Grand Coalitions, and one has to show loyalty to have any political success.

    But the solid, unremitting, unyielding partisanship exhibited by some really rankles me. By now, have you figured out why?

    1. I’ve seen Carl Pham over at The Atlantic commenting on Megan McArdle articles several times.

  3. Doubtful that Obama and Clinton believed the story they created after Benghazi but they did believe that AQ and Islamic terrorism were no longer a threat because they view Bush as the only reason it existed and that everyone loves Obama so things were cool now, just a couple dead enders out there nothing to worry about.

    They really thought that AQ was the only group we are at war with and the multitudes of other similar groups who share ideology, members and tactics from time to time didn’t matter. Those groups could even be armed and trained to overthrow governments and nothing bad would happen like genocide against Christians.

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