Out with the old war, in with the new....
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:40 am
I ran across the following in my daily ramblings around the interwebs yesterday, and I thought it was a compelling story. Leftist reporters make fun of New Media news sources, but the truth is that the lamestream media feels threatened by New Media, because they KNOW they are dropping the ball on these stories and burying them to protect their golden boy, and New Media has filled that vacuum and done it admirably.
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Here's what I think:On Aug. 26, about two weeks before his was killed, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens attended a ceremony marking the opening of consular services at the Tripoli embassy.
“I’m happy to announce that starting on Monday, August 27, we are ready to offer a full range of consular services to Libyans,” stated Stevens at the ceremony in Tripoli. “This means non-immigrant visas, as well as assistance to Americans residing in, or visiting, Libya.”
The main role of a consulate is to foster trade with the host and care for its own citizens who are traveling or living in the host nation.
Diplomatic missions, on the other hand, maintain a more generalized role. A diplomatic mission is simply a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization present in another state to represent matters of the sending state or organization in the receiving state.
The State Department website lists no consulate in Benghazi.
According to Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND, the so-called consulate was more of a diplomatic meeting place for U.S. officials, including Stevens.
The security officials divulged the building was routinely used by Stevens and others to coordinate with the Turkish, Saudi and Qatari governments on supporting the insurgencies in the Middle East, most prominently the rebels opposing Assad’s regime in Syria.
Last week, the State Department gave a vivid account of Stevens’ final day during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It was disclosed that about an hour before the attack began, Stevens concluded his final meeting of the day with a Turkish diplomat. Turkey has been leading the insurgency against Assad’s regime.
Last month, WND broke the story that Stevens played a central role in recruiting jihadists to fight Assad’s regime in Syria, according to Egyptian security officials.
- The administration has been waging a secret war by proxy against Syria, with the help of Turkey, through the agency of State Department recruited Jihadists (REALLY!?!?!?!....after what we know today about dealing with Jihadists?
). If it weren't so bloody serious, it would be hilarious. But this IS serious, for a couple of reasons:
- One of the criticisms that democrats lay at the feet of republicans is a history of fighting secret proxy wars by dealing with unsavory people to fight other unsavory people (never mind democrat Charlie Wilson's War, our first war in Afghanistan).
- The administration is trying to promote a public image of restraint and peacemaking in the middle east, but it is secretly embroiling our nation in further conflagration, by employing religious crazies......the very same religious crazies who are trying to kill Americans, both in Lybia and in other countries.
- Now that we know that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was employed in hiring Jihadists to wage a secret war against Syria, using the Benghazi mission to do so, and having just an hour or so before met with a Turkish representative in that effort, does ANYBODY with a brain in his skull doubt that the Muslim brotherhood (still yet another bunch of religious crazies), which is active in Syria, had the mission under surveillance and was deliberately trying to eliminate Stevens and the Turkish diplomat? There is NO WAY on God's green earth that the Benghazi attack was anything but a well-planned and executed paramilitary strike for the deliberate purpose of killing our Ambassador.