Thursday, October 18, 2012

Who Pulled The Security Detail In Benghazi?

Bill O'Reilly wasn't implying, but as I heard it for the second time, (I was just tuning in when it aired earlier this evening) and both times, little flashes ticked in my brain.  If one looks at the scenario that the Chicago Way sometimes winds through the connections to the Wise Guys, it is enough to shiver you with a chill. 

The idea that the decision was MADE somewhere to remove the armed professionals who were securing the Embassy in Benghazi is disturbing.  It takes on a vibe I'm not liking at all.  I keep seeing those scenes in the Godfather where the Chief of Police is on the take from the Mob and the officers assigned to the hospital room of Vito Corleone aren't at their posts when Michael arrives to visit his father, when the Turnpike Commissioners duck out of the toll booths as Sonny Corleone's car approaches, when the bodyguards hired to protect Michael in Sicily are beating a path away from the booby trapped car just as Appolonia turns the key, ...

On the heels of the Afghans killing the American Military Personnel training and arming them to assume responsibility for their own military defense, it should have raised an eyebrow, at least, during the President's Intelligence Briefings.  Once the British Ambassador was attacked, prompting the closing of the British Embassy, followed by the Red Cross closure and our own Consulate  being attacked in April and again in June, when a hole was blown through the wall that was large enough for 40 people to march through, the awareness quotient should have been higher.  I have done enough customer service in my time to know that you direct MORE resources to a threatened installation OR YOU CLOSE IT, if you are unable to afford to properly provide services.  I get the goal of normalizing relations with Libya and it was the Administration's wish to implement that objective.  But I question the wisdom of the timing to launch such an exercise under the kind of conditions that existed in that outpost.  If Christopher Stevens was documenting HIS misgivings in his diary, to the point of redoubling his requests for reconsideration of that decision, it is clear to me that the Man on the scene was well aware of the activity in his neighborhood and the overruling of the Ambassador was not wise.

Obama's romanticised fantasy of the Muslim Brotherhood so clouds his street insight that he is incapable of relating that the same crime wave that is killing hundreds of people in Chicago this year is reigning in Benghazi.  It pains me to say this, but I must consider, entertain and eliminate if I can, the  notion that the Administration was gaming the contenders for control of the Libyan  Government.

The security was pulled on the direct orders of Obama who had unrealistic expectations that the Libyan Freedom Fighters would fall in line as expected, because of all that had been done for them.  He forgot his own dogfight with the Party to force his critics in line.  He forgot that even women in his party stood up to him and said:  "Party Unity My ASS!"  Because he violated our conscience in his drive for Power.  Why would he expect the still unresolved Power Struggle in Libya to settle itself so that he could get on with the business of making money there, before a solid understanding was realized as to Who Gets What?

This Amateur is living out a fantasy and "plays" Commander In Chief like it was a video game.  I'm losing sleep over the AlQaida flag flying over our embassy, the destruction and property flung to the streets as though our Country was lying, mortally wounded halfway around the world, in a land of blood-thirsty young men out of control, and the paparazzi are photographing it to sell to TMZ.

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