Jophiel wrote:
Must be hard to be a whiny little snowflake. I suppose blaming everyone and everything else is easier than personal responsibility and self reflection though so I envy you guys that.
Interesting that you demand personal responsibility of me, but not of the president of the US or the Secretary of State. I think it's abundantly obvious that this entire issue ultimately occurred because the Obama administration desperately needed to contrast Libya as a success against the failure of Bush in Iraq. This lead them to ignore warning signs of increased danger in Libya and to ignore requests for additional security and building improvements. I can't help but think that the whole rhetoric about the embassy in Baghdad and the association between "armored embassy equals failure" had to have had some impact on their thinking. They wanted to avoid even the perception that Libya was anything other than a smashing success.
And when the attack occurred, this same thought process lead them to find any excuse for why it happened other than "the country just isn't as safe as we wanted it to be". So they latched onto the whole video protest thing, and just couldn't let it go. And then when that turned out to be obviously false, instead of just admitting that their own assumptions lead them to a false narrative, they lied about lying about it. "Oh no! We never said it was about a video. Um... That was what the intelligence folks on the ground told us!". Except that too, is a lie. And that's what the emails reveal. Clinton knew that there was no protest on the first day after the attack. She knew it had nothing at all to do with the video. Which reveals that this wasn't about what the intelligence folks told them, but that it came from some other politically oriented direction.
And I think we all know what that was, and why it was. Just no one's willing to actually admit it. So instead we have to spend literally years slowly dragging the facts out of those involved, kicking and screaming all the way. As has been said many times; the cover up is worse than the crime. The worst that happened initially was a failure to respond to a potential threat. Yeah, a mistake, but one that can be excused, and is certainly not criminal, or even that politically harmful. But concealing facts, obstructing investigations into those facts, and out and out lying to the American people? That's a much bigger problem. And whether you want to admit it or not, Hillary Clinton is smack in the middle of it.
Personally, I think she got screwed by Obama. I don't happen to think that it was her idea to lie about the cause of the attack. And frankly, her emails suggest this. I think she was told by Obama to promote the video lie, and she dutifully did as her president asked. Kinda exactly like all those folks who ultimately went to jail during Watergate did. But this puts the political Left in the uncomfortable position of either having to let Clinton take the fall for this or place the blame squarely on Obama. So you're either ******** over your current front runner for president (and potential first woman president), or you tarnish the reputation of the first black president. That's a heck of a pickle for liberals.
