Taking Responsibility for the Failures at Benghazi

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the failures in Benghazi.  Why now?  For weeks, the Administration and the State Department hammered at the story that the anti-Islamic video was the cause of attacks and the murders.  When it was obvious that the attack was a pre-planned terrorist attack, they were forced to admit it.  Their new narrative then became that it was the intelligence community and the State Department’s fault.  Barack Obama is just the President and Commander-in-Chief; therefore, he’s obviously is too busy to be responsible for failures of his own Administration.  It’s someone else’s fault or failure.

Mrs. Clinton has taken the responsibility for the failures from Peru.  Even while she was in a foreign land taking the blame, the Administration still played the blame game by blaming the failures on “confusion” on what was the actual cause of the terrorist attack.  Who cares who’s to blame.  Figure out what happened and if someone was in the wrong, then punish him or her if necessary, but fix the problems so that it doesn’t happen again.  Real leaders don’t try to change the story by blaming others, they figure out what happened and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

Why didn’t Mrs. Clinton call up President Obama the morning of September 12, 2012 to brief the President of the United States of America on the situation at the US Consulate in Benghazi?  That would have cleared up any confusion.  Regardless of what caused the attack, there was an attack that killed four Americans including our Ambassador.  The President needs to immediately be briefed on the situation telling him everything the State Department knows.  President Obama should then stay in constant communication with the State Department and the military regarding the situation in Benghazi.  That big failure caused a multitude of failures by the Obama Administration in Libya.

What did President Obama do though?  He went to the United Nations and rambled on about how a dumb video caused the terrorist attack in Benghazi.  The Obama Administration doesn’t seem to have really thought through the story his Administration had decided to push.  Do they think the American people are stupid?

Now that we know that the Obama Administration did know the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack connected to an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group.  I think the attack shot a hole in the Obama Administration’s narrative that President Obama killed the leader of Al-Qaeda, Usama bin Laden, and by extension put an end to Al-Qaeda’s reign of terror.

In short, President Obama was supposedly the savior.  President Bush got us into two wars and couldn’t stop Al-Qaeda, but President Obama was able to kill Usama and stop Al-Qaeda in his first term.  Therefore, the Obama Administration decided to cover-up what they knew about Al-Qaeda in the Benghazi attack, so that they could hopefully maintain the narrative that President Obama did more to stop the 9/11 terrorist masterminds than did his predecessor.

President Obama is a very shrewd and calculating Marxist.  He will do everything in his power to be able to continue his Marxist agenda.  If there is anything that could jeopardize his mission, then I believe he will throw anyone under the bus just to achieve his Marxist agenda of destroying America’s leadership in the world.  I wonder how Mrs. Clinton feels about being President Obama latest person to be thrown under the bus.