The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan watched the House hearings on the Benghazi murders and saw politics. Not Republican politics, rather she saw Democratic politics. Her column about this event is worth your time.
Noonan believes our governmental malfeasance was aimed at getting the President reelected, no more, no less. Obama was selling the line that Al Qaeda was pretty much dead in the wake of the assassination of Osama ben Laden.
If what happened in Benghazi was terrorism, was Al Qaeda-linked terrorism, then militant Islam was still very much an issue for the U.S. Which meant that Obama couldn't claim that the job of rooting out terrorism was finished. And his reelection was only eight weeks away.
What everybody believes, but nobody says, is that those four Americans died so that Barack Obama could be reelected. Military rescue was withheld so the President could not be accused of getting the U.S. involved in another Middle Eastern war.
I hope Ambassador Chris Stevens - an Obama supporter - felt the President was worth dying for. I wonder if Stevens' family agrees.
