So I’ve only
discussed this a little bit, but after today’s performance from Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, I feel like making a little rant to get some things off
my chest. First of all I think I speak for most people when I say that I am
very tired of the overuse of the phrase, “with all due respect.”
When I was
in the Navy we were always taught to have respect for our seniors and not to
disagree with them in public unless we first use the phrase, “with all due
respect.” So using that phrase is equivalent to a lady in the south starting a
comment about another person with the phrase, “Bless her/his little heart.”
Today I must
have heard that phrase about a million times and in this overly-charged, politically-correct
world that we live in I think it’s time for us to remove some of that political
correctness and just lay it out as it really is. So here we go!!
The Benghazi
debacle is the biggest bunch of SNAFU that I have seen since the stained dress,
or Iran-Contra, or Watergate, or Scooter Libby, or the….well hell, I can’t go
into them all, but safe it to say this is a mess and the real truth is pretty
well been figured out but no one wants to just come out and admit to it all.
Today we had
congressmen questioning the Secretary of State. Each of them got a whopping
five minutes of time to question her and except for Secretary Clinton; NOONE
was prepared for the day’s events. Between the grandstanding by the congressmen
and the evasive avoidance of answering a question once posed, nothing was
accomplished except a lot of cross talk and that smelly stuff you try not to
step in while in a stable.
Now I am not
going to get into too many details as I do not want to bore anyone and I am not
writing a book, which I could with this mess. But I will touch on the main
points and the ridiculousness of this all. First let’s go with the part that
bothers me the most. Libya one of the hotbeds of foreign troubles then and now
should have been one of the priorities of the foreign service; however, the new
embassy in Tripoli and the consulate in Benghazi had less security as far as physical
barriers and security personnel than those in England and France – HUH.
Just seems
like this a war zone and the countless requests for more security from the
personnel on the ground in Libya it would appear logical for more security to
be provided here. But apparently, due to
the small number of personnel assigned to the embassy staff in Libya, more
security was not authorized. Apparently the size of the staff and not the
security of the country is the deciding factor involved with determining the size
of the security detail assigned.
Of course
the four State Department individuals responsible for this lack of common sense
were later suspended from service as a publicity stunt with a Friday afternoon
press release; however, they were later reassigned to other departments in the
state department. So apparently their ineptness that resulted in the death of
four people, including the U.S. Ambassador, was not enough to warrant their permanent
removal from the service – AMAZING!!
Then let’s
look at the talking points that were designed to deal with the immediate fallout
associated with this horrible event. Within 24 hours most everyone on the planet
with even a modicum of intelligence knew this was a terrorist attack. But the
Obama Administration’s story that this was a demonstration that got out of hand
was the story that the administration went forward with for two weeks because they
either thought no one would find out the truth, or that as a populace us
Americans were just gullible enough to accept this ridiculous explanation.
Today
Secretary Clinton tried to walk that back and say that she and the President both
called it a specific act of terrorism right from the beginning. But other than
speaking in generalities about the evil of terrorism n general, neither of them
called it terrorism and both taped Public Service Announcements (or
commercials) that played on Arab television apologizing for the video they
continued to blame for the incident. Meanwhile four American families are
burying their murdered loved ones back here in the states.
They
believed that us American suckers would buy this whole story hook, line, and
sinker. They even rolled out U.N. Ambassador (and former Secretary of State
hopeful) Susan Rice to go on the Sunday morning new show circuit and recite
this finely crafted lie in hopes that Americans would buy this poisoned bill of
goods; and guess what, far too many of the voters did.
But now we
know the truth, Rice was unleashed with a set of talking points designed to
blame the deaths of these fine men on a video and not disclose the inadequate
capabilities of the Secretary of State, her staff, the intelligence community
at large, and even the President himself. Today Clinton said she was not there
when these talking points were developed but that is a point of discussion also
since there are currently five differing lists of who were in those meetings
and she is on two of them. Which begs another questions, if there was a group meeting
to determine what had happened and she was in Washington then why wasn’t she in
that meeting?
Today, a
rattled Hillary Clinton made the screaming statement that it did not matter if
it was an organized attack or a group of individuals who decided to kill some
Americans. Well I beg to differ when you reason in the fact that just a few
days ago American intelligence and the Foreign Service missed the very organized
attack on the petroleum production site in Algeria. An organized attack that
utilized many weapons that will probably be traced back to the Libyans rebels
we aided.
It would be
interesting to find out how many of the weapons used in Algeria actually came
from Libya. Of course we would have to be able to trace those weapons and since
the current administration can’t even trace the weapons they allowed to be
illegally sold and smuggled into Mexico, well I guess we’re not going to get
anywhere with that investigation either. See how far the ineptness goes when
there is a leadership vacuum at the top.
Today
Secretary Clinton said that serving overseas in the Foreign Service was
inherently dangerous and those who served knew that when they signed on. But I
am sure they figured they would be given the resources to do their jobs with at
least a minimum of security requirements. When I was in the Navy and we were
overseas I always knew that many times we would be in a dangerous situation;
you kind of take that for granted. But whether the President was Reagan, Bush,
Clinton, or Bush again; I never felt like we were inadequately provided at
least that minimal amount of security.
Then there
is the argument that Hillary Clinton made trying to lessen the importance of
the State Departments incompetence. She tried to rationalize their deaths by
saying that they knew their job was hazardous and that their acceptance of that
knowledge essentially excused the State Department for the incompetence that
cost them their lives; as ludicrous and asinine as that sounds that is precisely
why she made that statement.
Later, Secretary
Clinton, with the help of several liberal congressmen, went on to attack
congress for a failure to fund the state Department with enough funds to
provide the proper security in Libya. But the truth is the Military made an
offer to augment the Libyan embassy security staff and that offer was rejected
by State Department personnel. You know, those folks who were suspended on a
Friday and working in another department with the month – BRILLIANT!!
Maybe if the
State Department would have saved some money on Secretary Clinton’s travel, or if
the Obama Administration had not funded those thoroughbreds like Solyndra, they
might have been able to afford the additional security.
Well that is
not the end of it, but that is all I am going to write about this evening. I
feel like that is enough to ingest this evening. In the future I intend to
praise the positive and hammer the negative that occurs in Washington, Austin,
and for me, right here in Milam County, Texas.
With All Due
Respect…Goodnight!!
Bill
