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Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton erupted at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) during his questioning Wednesday
over whether there were protests in Benghazi, Libya before the deadly assault
on the U.S. diplomatic mission.
Johnson was insisting that the
American people were “misled” about protests that supposedly occurred over an
anti-Islam video, similar to those that had taken place at the U.S. Embassy in
Cairo hours earlier on Sept. 11, 2012. It was later determined there had been
no protests in Benghazi and the assault was labeled a terrorist attack.
“Do you disagree with me that
a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened would have
ascertained immediately that there was no protest?” Johnson asked Clinton
during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “That was a piece of
information that could have been easily, easily obtained, within hours if not
days.”
“Senator, when you’re in these
positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process
going on — ” Clinton started to answer.
” — I realize that’s a good
excuse,” Johnson cut in.
“Well, no, it’s the fact,”
Clinton said sharply, adding that there are questions being raised “even today”
about what precisely happened in Benghazi.
She continued, “Now, we have
no doubt they were terrorists, they were militants, they attacked us, they
killed our people. But what was going on and why they were doing what they were
doing, is still — ”
No, no, no, again, again — we
were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out
of that, an assault sprang out of that and that was easily ascertained that
that was not the fact and the American people could have known that within
days,” Johnson said. “And they didn’t know that.”
“With all respect, the fact is
we have four dead Americans was it because of a protest or was it because of
guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans,”
Clinton shouted. “What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to
figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever
happening again, senator.”
Madeleine Morgenstern, The Blaze, 23-01-2013
Jim,
ResponderExcluirIt turns out to be appaling...
If Americans use the "big stick" strategy, the whole world criticizes and accuses them of "imperialists", but when they opt using the policy of patience and seek to understand how Islamists think, embassy officials and soldiers end up dead.
The civilized world needs to understand that the Islamists are at war with the rest of the non-Islamic world and having too much patience and indulgence on them is tantamount to practicing suicide.
Best wishes,
Francisco Vianna