Aside from the ongoing assault by Hurricane Irma, today is also
the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11th 2001 attacks on America,
and the fifth anniversary of the September 11th 2012 attacks on the
American diplomatic facilities in Benghazi. Later today I'll be hosting
another live audio edition of our Clubland Q&A, taking questions
from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet - at 4pm Monday US
Eastern Time (see below for other times). I expect both Irma, Benghazi
and 9/11 to crop up, but you're free to raise any other subjects, too.
Here, though, we're focusing on Benghazi:
In Sir Henry Wotton's famous formulation, an ambassador is a man sent
to lie abroad for the good of his country. In the case of Susan Rice, a
UN ambassador is a broad sent to lie to her country for the good of her
man — President Obama. Happily, it worked. Nine months after going on
five Sunday talk-shows and pinning Benghazi on some unseen YouTube
video, Miss Rice was promoted to National Security Advisor. The
Administration's designated fall-guy, the director of that unseen video,
was thrown in jail for a year, and now lives in a homeless shelter.
My own view of Benghazi has been consistent since my column of
September 14th 2012, three days after the attack and two days before
Susan Rice peddled to the nation an agreed story she and the President
and the Secretary of State knew was utterly false. ...
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