LSM's Etymological Errors - Nigel Tomes

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Originally Posted by Ohio

Actually there was little to no difference at all. In both cases the dead men were abandoned, and soldiers around them were told to retreat or stand down. In both cases the murderer used enemy combatants to do his work for him. In both cases, the only ones who really knew what transpired were soldiers who were under orders to say nothing.

In the first case we all know why Uriah was killed. In the second case, a massive coverup is preventing us from knowing why Stevens was murdered.

Are you suggesting that the death of Stevens was in inside job? Or that the uprising was US-inspired to cause a US death?

Or are you suggesting that the fact that after it all went south that the fact that a bunch of Marines (or whoever was security) did not simply stand and die and did not fight their way back into the part of the compound where Stevens was killed amounts to intent on the part of Obama, Clinton, or any other person not present at the event (sounds like a sales seminar when you say "event").

If Obama and company had strengthened their political standing through the incident, I would be looking for signs that something about is was not on the up-and-up. But since they have been backpedalling endlessly ever since, it is hard to find willful intent in it.

And that is the most important difference between what David did and what happened in Bengazi. Under your assessment making judgments that turn out to have been poor is a criminal offense.

And the fact that there is a coverup does not implicate Obama in the thing being covered-up. It was the same with Nixon. So far as we know, the fact that his zealous backers broke into the Watergate hotel was strictly their own doing. But Nixon got caught up in trying to help hide it and it cost him (had to look it up to make sure that RMN was not in the know before it happened). Could be this is the same kind of thing for Obama. Not personally repsonsible for the event, but guilty of hiding it so that his image is not further tarnished by it. Don't confuse the two.

Look. I don't like Obama. I dislike him enough that I would rather have seen Hillary as president (and that took a lot of soul searchnig to come to that conclusion). But somehow birth certificates were never the way to dispute him. Neither is blaming him as being up-front repsonsible for the Bengazi debacle to the extent that he should have been considered as signing a death warrant for one or more of the people in that Embassy.

We have to do better than that or anything we say becomes questioned even when it shouldn't. (And Obama has done and said enough to put him in that position with a lot of us.)

Talk about how he ignores the separation of powers. They called Reagan the Imperial president, but I think Obama is the real deal. He just has his cabinet order their departments to do what he wants. Congress won't pass it, so just do it anyway.