Kucinich: Do you know how
many shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles which can shot down commercial
airlines are unaccounted for in Libya?
Nordstrom: The number is
extremely fluid. We understand it is
between 10 and 20,000.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: . .
.
Except
for the fact that fluidity and numbers don’t properly belong to the same
sentence, Nordstrom’s reply to Kucinich represents the most honest assessment
of the Libya debacle, particularly as applies to the tragedy in Benghazi. Numbers were invented as tools to facilitate
counting discreet entities. Fluidity is
the traditional semaphore for a continuum, ordinarily impervious to counting.
Just
like the water drop that is lost amongst the uncountable non-drops in the ocean,
the false narrative of an obscure YouTube video deemed offensive to the tender
sensibilities of Islam to have caused the sacking of the Benghazi consulate and
the deaths of four Americans almost became indistinct from
the tsunami of lies that the Obama Regime has perpetrated on the American
people for more than forty-five months.
“Almost”
is the operative modifier. As Victor
Davis Hanson most astutely and succinctly
emphasized, [http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson101012.html]
In the past,
hostage-taking, sniper shootings, or plane crashes accounted for the deaths of
our ambassadors. The notion of an American ambassador trapped nearly alone for
hours before succumbing to smoke inhalation, while helpless under sustained
armed assault, cries out for explanation.
Unfortunately, events have a stubborn habit of defying
precedents. Their unfolding inconveniently did not conform to the calculatingly
planned and architected political propaganda template. The Obama re-election campaign which has
become synonymous with the Obama Administration, scrambled to retrofit the narrative
into the template. To wit, Victor Hanson continues,
An election-mode
administration apparently was deeply invested in the post-convention narrative
of Middle East calm — brought about by the end of bin Laden, the new reset
diplomacy of a popular and cool-headed Barack Obama, the dismantling of al
Qaeda by Predator-drone assassinations, and a US-shepherded Arab Spring.
It is
obvious to everyone other than the most ardent of Pres. Obama’s acolytes that
the Benghazi debacle was the tragic result of the Obama regime’s clumsy and
incompetent attempt to sustain the delusional narrative that peace and harmony are
at hand between the West and the Muslim world simply as a direct consequence to
Pres. Obama’s being in the Oval Office.
Worse than that, the ensuing cover up violated every protocol of decency
and due diligence expected in public service.
There
is evidence
aplenty that the White House deliberately
misled the public in an attempt to maintain a semblance
of consistency in its narrative. No
amount of feigned indignation and rehearsed affected petulance on the part of
the President should mitigate the public outrage that he so richly deserves, unbridled
by the constraints of civility.
It
has become most urgently incumbent on Gov. Romney to bring up, front and
center, the Libya debacle on Monday night’s debate. Undoubtedly the subterfuge that Bob Schieffer
may bring into the mix to continue the non-Fox-Media’s protective cocoon around
the Obama campaign may prove formidable.
But it should be a measure of Gov. Romney’s bona fides for the Oval
Office to expose the Benghazi tragedy in all its naked grotesqueness.
President
Obama needs to lose his job over this.
Else the country is not fit to survive in a world when astute leadership
is in dire demand.
As I
warned earlier elsewhere [c.f., p.230 or
see the entire chapter 14 with live hyperlinks sourcing at http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/asumen/2010/11222010.htm],
The Barbarians are
not just at the gates. They are already at the helms of power and wrecking
havoc on our patrimony, flushing our posterity down the drain of indebtedness,
and bankruptcy of the fiscal, moral, and intellectual genre.
In
any political campaign impeccable timing is a premium commodity. The tragedy in Benghazi, replete with
treasonous intrigues and chicanery, has presented Gov. Romney with a perfect
opportunity in the next debate to dismantle, piece by piece, the moral
bankruptcy of the Obama doctrine of appeasement in the face of a relentless and
dangerous enemy.
Given
this promise of a political campaign bonanza, President Obama’s reelection can
only mean one thing. Namely, an American
populace overwhelmed and vanquished by a deluge of mendacity. For such stupidity, we should all go down in
history as a veritable disgrace to the human race.
This is 5th in a continuing series leading to the election on how the Obama Regime is cutting down "to size" anything American to fit into his post-colonial ideological template that all the ills of the world have been caused by Americans using a disproportionate share of the world's resources at the expense of the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteIn my haste to finish and publish the blogpost I have neglected to emphasize the expectations that has definitely been downsized in the case of Benghazi. To wit, the national polity's expectation that its elective and duly constituted government is duty bound to tell the nation the unadulterated truth about what it is doing.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama Regime's treatment of the Benghazi tragedy demonstrated in no uncertain terms, that truth is the least that we can expect from his legion of bureaucratic czars and campaign functionaries.