The Benghazi Slingshot

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Cindy Simpson @ American Thinker:

Some brave thinkers recognize that beneath the intrigue surrounding the Benghazi tragedy lie the traces of something much larger and far more dangerous.

Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy hosted a panel on November 13, 2012 to discuss “Benghazi: US Foreign Policy and the Threat of Sharia Doctrine.”  Guest panelists included Dr. Andrew Bostom,Diana West, and Stephen Coughlin.  The event was taped in its entirety and is available here.

The information offered by the experts suggests, to put it very simply, that the Middle East is rapidly unifying and heading toward a strict application of sharia; that sharia is a totalitarian form of government utterly incompatible with American ideas of freedom and liberty; and, as Diana West noted, U.S. policy is “making the world safe for sharia,” as opposed to keeping the world, and specifically America, safe.  In Benghazi, that policy proved fatal.

The Center for Security Policy panelists aren’t the only thinkers to question whether this administration has an affinity for sharia.  In his article “Obama knew: Did ideological soft spot for Sharia keep US government from protecting Benghazi consulate?,” American Spectator‘s Jeffrey Lord suggests that the highest levels of the Obama administration are “in some fashion simpatico with a totalitarian ideology.”

That “ideological soft spot” may explain why President Obama “can’t,” as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher declared, “utter the words ‘Muslim terror attack.'”  And far worse than words, as Frank Gaffney noted: “The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists … [it] has been arming them[.]”

Of course, the identification of the parties responsible for orchestrating the tone and content of the misleading information relayed to the American people in the aftermath of the attack is a serious issue that must be pursued.  In addition, the Petraeus-Broadwell affair revealed other important security concerns.

But those very valid points still cloud the most foundational questions — what were our ambassador and the CIA doing in Benghazi, and what was the underlying policy that guided their actions?  And further, we must ascertain whether or not our government’s “See No Sharia failure of imagination” renders it unable to competently assess the threat to our security.

Decades earlier, another courageous thinker, Whittaker Chambers, discovered a similar phenomenon to Benghazigate when he dared to reveal the identity of a prominent member of the Communist spy network, Alger Hiss, an official in FDR’s State Department.  In his famous autobiography, Witness, Chambers wrote:

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I keep saying our Government [Ofraud and company] and their Policies [or lack thereof] keep putting United States Citizens [here and abroad] in ‘very real’ danger…

Our President and those he gifts [those ignoramuses who voted for him in order to receive these ‘gifts’ ] and those hacks who ‘must win’ for the sake of winning and to hell with the country… absolutely refuse to see this…

Larry Love that Cambridge school. Found it interesting that one middle class Black kid goes there and he’s an “elitist”, the rich kid who goes there is a “regular guy”
The Prez. of my senior H.S. class and the Prez. of our Student Council both went to Harvard. Know what that did upon graduation in 1966. Became Officers in The Marines. Different times.

Retire05 keeps pounding away,spouting fire and personally attacking those who choose to debate her.Most on her side steer clear of her.
Gotta say I disagree with the way Lib 1 presents himself. Tom is one smart young man from The Commonwealth.
Hope Curt can confirm your party invite. Enjoy your Turkey Day.
Richard

@Richard Wheeler:

I guess you thought you would come to this thread so you could badmouth me and I would not be the wiser. Sorry, Rich. It didn’t work.

Now, if you have something to say to me, do it to me personally and stop trying to be nothing more than a little sneak.

Retite05 This post was intended for “Benghazi gate” where I figured you’d read it.

DIANA WEST
said the truth, she said it from her gut’s feeling
and by GEORGE , she pinpoint it to the dot
THANK YOU CURT, that post is telling us more on BENGHASI than any finds till now