Hillary Clinton takes responsibility for Libya US deaths

[August]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

This is nonsense actually

it is not Hillary Clinton's position to take responsibility for what happened in Benghazi, and nor is it Obama's fault either.

It is the fault of Libya and those individuals who did it.

The idea that you can provide perfect security for every diplomatic mission is ridiculous. You have already transformed embassies into citadels stuck in the hearts of the lands that make up your global empire, and now you want to do it for every consulate too?

What is perfect security?

That each and every diplomatic mission can withstand an unlimited siege until the army arrives? That each and every diplomat has an armored convoy?

How much do you want to spend on this? Don't you know that your enemies have a strategy? That strategy is, they spend $1,000 on an operation, you spend $100,000,000 trying to prevent it happening again.

Diplomats are at the protection of the host country, and that is all there is to it. It is up to Libya to make sure that those who did it are brought to justice, and if that means bringing in US power to do so, then so be it. But retribution is the correct approach, and not some chimerical belief that the US can for reasonable cost "world-proof" every single diplomat out there.

Nobody is asking for a Parachute Infantry Regiment Joe but a Marine security detail in a country with little or no central government with a terrorist presence on the anniversary of 9-11 is not too much to ask for or expect to have.

You might get away with it in New Jersey but this is Benghazi. Common sense dictates that you don't leave your ambassador unguarded which is exactly what happened.