In testimony before the Senate committee investigating the attack on the US installation and annex in Benghazi in Libya that resulted in the death of US Ambassador Stephens and three other Americans, then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton responded to a question with the following statement:
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or because some guys out for a walk one night decided to kill some Americans?
What difference at this point does it make?
It is our job at this point to figure out and do everything we can to prevent it from happening again."
Secretary Clinton is correct in her statement that it our job to figure out and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
Her statement that the cause of the "protest", now known to be a terrorist attack, makes no difference is despicable. Her implication that the death of four Americans "at this point" makes no difference is deeply offensive. And emerging facts showing Americans in harm's way denied possible aid is a national outrage.
I am sorry, Madam Secretary, but even at this point it makes a considerable difference to me, to the families of the four dead, and to the citizens of the nation.
It's a matter of national character.
Americans do not abandon Americans in harm's way fighting for their lives. Americans instinctively run to the sound of the guns.
Americans do not deny support to their comrades in arms even if such support may prove to little or too late.
Neither do Americans do less than all possible to secure vulnerable positions. The life of even one American official in a foreign country is more important than the approbation of ten thousand locals.
It is more in the American nature to attempt big things against seemingly insurmountable odds and to triumph than to give up the attempt without trying.
Madam Secretary, you are wrong. You severely misjudge the Nation you were representing.
We have four dead Americans and that makes all the difference in the world.
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Don't worry. The WH Press Corps received a briefing today - with all of the 'transparency' we've grown accustomed to from this abominable administration. Behind closed doors... Off the record...
ReplyDeleteMost likely with threats of revocation of their press pool credentials.
I cannot speak for either the administration or the White House or any other press corps. I can only speak for myself and state what I believe to be right.
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