By Conn Carroll
With all due respect" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouted at Sen. Ron Johnson R-Wis. at yesterdays Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided theyd they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?"
Yes what difference does it make?
Was President Obamas decision to go with a soft footprint" in Libya the correct decision? Did it increase the chance that a tragedy like the killing of U.S. Ambassador Cris Stevens might happen? Was the Stevens killing just a freak occurrence due to a random YouTube video or was the attack another piece of evidence that al-Qaeda is much much stronger than the Obama administration and Secretary Clinton would like us to believe? Did the same terrorist militants that helped kill Stevens assist in the recent killing of 38 hostages in Algeria?
Hillary Clintons anger at being forced to answer any of these questions is completely understandable. She has been campaigning to become the first female President of the United States for over six decades now. The fact the first U.S. Ambassador to be killed in over 30 years happened on her watch cannot be allowed to get in her way.
Never mind that the State Department had $2.6 billion in unspent embassy security funds last year. Or that the 585 page 9/11 Commission report has a whole chapter on the perpetrators motivations. Hillary Clinton is running for office for Petes sake she cant have the American people asking these kind of questions.
The 2012 presidential election is over. The 2016 Democratic primary is already upon us. It is pretty much guaranteed we will see video of Clintons What difference does it make?" outburst again soon.
