Do you know what the worst thing that Americans do? The
least humane, the least honorable, the least civil, the least patriotic thing
that Americans do?
In my opinion, the worst thing that Americans, or anyone else
for that matter, can do is to make political hay out of the tragic deaths of
others. Demagoguery of the most heinous kind, committed by those who seek
political gains on the backs of the dead.
That’s what we have going on right now in Washington DC by
the callous right wing who want heads to roll because of the tragic deaths of 4
foreign service workers in Benghazi last September 11th.
These aren’t Monday morning quarterbacks, mind you, who are
simply expressing how they would have handled the situation had they been in
charge. In the fog and confusion of events, no one knows with clarity what they
could have or would have done had they been in control of the country.
What it all comes down to is this: the Obama campaign was
making huge points in the days leading up to the election about the successes
that have occurred in areas of overseas military actions against our enemies.
Successes that were denied the previous administration. Now comes a clear crisis
in the Middle East and we have to deal with the tragedy of loss of life. It
behooves the opposition then, to use this event to its benefit before the
election, hoping for a miracle to occur and Romney to win the election.
Now that Romney was denied the win, it further behooved the
opposition to continue the diatribe, only to find that when looking for
skeletons in in the closet, all they could come up with was the sad truth that
everything that could be done was done, that the facts were slow to come to
light, and a total truth-telling would reveal classified sources.
Outting intelligence sources is a Republican thing that they
have still not unlearned.
But the demagoguery continues with angry bald fat white men
with veins popping out of their foreheads stridently calling for an explanation
for the deaths of the four foreign service personnel. These same people stand
silent at the deaths of 2155 Americans in Afghanistan since 2001, let alone the
six who were killed just in the past week.
These people have no decency, and in truth are not worth the
volume of air that they displace.
2 comments:
The evidence points to incompetence and a cover-up. That you are not outraged and do not want heads to roll is a sign of YOUR putting party ahead of country.
No, the evidence points in the direction that everything that could be done was done. General Petraeus silenced John McCain in a very memorable hall statement. YOUR party is putting petty differences before country. Some call it callous, some call it treason. I call it just plain stupid.
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