Benghazi -- What Difference Does It Make?

I think I've figured out the scandal behind the Benghazi scandal -- it's not about what President Obama knew, when he knew it, or why he wasn't honest about what really happened -- that it was a planned terrorist attack.

The real scandal is Obama himself, and the people in power like him and with him who are radical, hardcore leftists with authoritarian intentions.

Hilary Clinton didn't heed calls for more security at the station in Benghazi because she likely believed, as most leftist, anti-interventionalist, anti-"American-Imperialist" radicals believe, that an additional American presence in the region would lead to more retaliation.

And they believe retaliation is in many cases justified (remember after 9/11/01 many leftists, including the President, were left wondering, essentially, "What did we do to deserve this?" -- it's the "Blame America First" crowd).  As most radical leftists believe, America is the oppressor and muslims and islamists are the oppressed.  It's not terrorism.

That's why they were left looking for a reason for the retaliation in Benghazi, and found it in an anti-islam video and Coptic Christian filmmaker.

Sure, there were political implications, i.e. Obama didn't keep us safe from terrorism, Al Qaeda is still active, the presidential election was coming up, etc.  From his perch in the White House, all those issues were likely less important to the President than the perceived issue that once again, America's chickens had come home to roost.  The election campaign wasn't going all that well, so that didn't really matter.  He had to figure out, once again, what America had done to the poor oppressed in the Middle East, and he had to parse his words not to cause them more anguish.

And they just had to keep things together in some sort of semblance of order for the uninformed, traditional American values types, to keep up the charade that "Obama is a centrist pragmatist" long enough to make it past the election and stay in power.

To borrow a phrase from Hilary Clinton, "What difference, at this point, does it make?!"  She has a point.  It doesn't really, in the end, matter what they did or didn't do, what they knew or didn't know, or what they said or didn't say.  It's symptomatic of a larger problem.  What matters is who they are, and the positions of power which they exploit:  They are radical, authoritarian leftists bent on complete, centralized government control.  It's who they are.  It's who they always are, throughout all of history, every time.  And they are always dangerous to liberty and life.