After our embassy in Iraq was attacked by Iranian militants on Tuesday, President Trump immediately did two important things that proved he learned the lesson of the Obama-Biden Benghazi debacle: First, he told the American people the truth about what happened. Second, he immediately sent help to protect our diplomatic staff.
Those two decisions might sound like common sense, might sound like the right and decent things to do, might sound like no-brainers… Unfortunately, after eight years of the failed Obama-Biden administration, common sense and decency are not what we expect from our government or our political leaders.
On September 11, 2012, a group of Islamist militants attacked the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the result — due to Obama’s refusal to act, was not only four dead Americans, but a desperate cover-up aided and abetted by what we now know is a fake news media.
We were lied to for months. Hell, when it comes to Benghazi, we’re still being lied to. The coverup to protect Precious Obama’s legacy and now Joe Biden, who is the best chance the media have at beating Trump in 2020, marches on to this day.
The coverup basically said that the Benghazi attack was a total surprise. No one could have seen it coming. No one knew the consulate required additional security. There was no intelligence that told us an attack might happen. The attack was a spontaneous one that grew out of a protest over a YouTube video critical of Islam.
It was all lies.
To begin with, our doomed Libyan ambassador, Christopher Stevens, repeatedly pleaded for more security and never received it. There were no Marines standing guard, no bulletproof windows, no real security other than locked doors. Even after the place had been attacked previous to that fateful night, security was not beefed up…..