Saturday, January 25, 2014

Benghazi Bites

You remember, of course, the firefight in which the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three others were murdered by anti-American jihadis? Fox News is out with a poll which shows that 59-60% of Americans blame President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the debacle at Benghazi.

Essentially, the blame comes from providing inadequate security support before the fact, and failing to send special forces when the attack occurred. Only one poll respondent in five held both leaders blameless.

The obvious question is the extent to which this blame contaminates Secretary Clinton's chances of (a) becoming the Democratic nominee in 2016 and (b) winning the presidential election. What Fox didn't ask, or at least didn't report, is the degree to which people actually care about Benghazi.