Perspective: Hillary's Benghazi Interview

 

Last Thursday, October 22, 2015, the Benghazi House Committee interviewed Hilary Clinton for 11 hours on public television to determine what she knew about the event that occurred on September 11, 2011. The Media in general reported that Hillary sailed through the 11 hours unscathed, and nothing new was learned. For the most part that is true, but here are some new and significant findings.

 

1. We learned that Hillary was a major player in getting us into Libya in the first place. During the interview it became clear that Hillary instigated and participated in the implementation of the plan to topple Gaddafi the President of Libya and that she very much wanted it to be known that she was a major player.

 

2. After Gaddafi was killed, Libya was a no mans land. Ambassador Stevens and his staff sent 600 requests to the State Department for help, all of which were denied. In the interview, Hillary stated that these requests never came to her attention. None of her staff were fired, and she claimed that she did not have the authority to fire anyone.

 

3. Eleven O’clock the night of the attack Hillary e-mailed Chelsea stating that two of our personnel were killed by al Queda terrorists. She also e-mailed the Premier of Egypt with the same message, adding it was not the film. This indicated that she and as well as most of those involved knew that very night that it was an al Queda attack, which was subsequently verified. The real Benghazi story is the cover up by the Administration. Hillary simply fell in with the Administration’s narrative that the attack was instigated by the video.

 

That Hillary is a liar is confirmed by the e-mails, that she is an incompetent manager is confirmed by her claiming she never knew of the 600 requests for help. These subordinates report to her. Six hundred is a huge number. Imagine her asking her subordinates “what is new”? What would they have told her? Now, remember no one was fired, and Hillary claimed in the interview that she did not have the power to fire anyone.

 

In no way did the Committee require 11 hours to determine what she knew. Moreover, politically that would have best been done behind closed doors. What was accomplished was to show case Hillary’s political acumen.

 

In pursuit of the cover up part of the the Benghazi story, the Committee still has the Secretary of Defense, General Petraeus and other top ranking personnel to interview to determine who created the video story and why no help was sent to the four Americans the night of September 11, 2011.

 

Perspective: Does the 60 Minutes Interview Show Obama as Delusional?

By any measure the Obama presidency and the Republican held House and Senate are abysmal failures, and everyone, especially the voters as well as our allies and foes knows it. Under Obama’s watch, jobs for the middle class are scarce and middle class wages have declined while the cost of living has increased dramatically. Excessive regulations and taxes have discouraged businesses from hiring. Meanwhile, Obamacare has been foisted upon both employers and employees with all of its issues which stymie the economic growth needed to create jobs.  In the foreign world Obama is at odds with his military as he proudly “leads from behind” leaving the Middle East in a shambles that will take decades to repair, if indeed it can ever be repaired. Meanwhile, Russia is filling the vacuum. The question is whether it can get worse during the remaining 15 months we have with Obama? If so, is there anything a Republican Congress can consider doing? 

In a blog posted December 18, 2014, I defined Megalomania a condition that this President exhibits which may explain why he is “Inable to perform his duties” such that the  25^th Amendment might be applied.  Megalomania is a psychological condition characterized by delusional fancies of power, omnipotence and inflated self esteem.. The psychiatric definition of “delusion” is: “Maintaining fixed but false beliefs usually as a result of mental illness.” 

Recent proof of this occurred on Sixty Minutes. Under the questioning of Steve Kroft, Obama demonstrated that he is “delusional”. He thinks that the economy is growing along with increases in wages, that we are succeeding in the Middle East and that ISIS is being defeated. If you missed this interview, you might be able to see it on line.  

Consequently, a Republican Congress could deem Obama “Inable” to perform his presidential duties in the manner that the Constitution describes. Therefore, he could be removed from office until he is ‘cured’ of this malady.   

If the Republicans had the courage to apply this remedy, then “We the People” might be able to breathe easier for the next fifteen months. On the other hand, if Congress remains spineless, we are stuck with this incompetent, feckless and reckless President. Therefore, all we have left is prayer!!

 

 

 

Persspective: Russia in Syria

In my June 13,2015  blog I raised the question of what should our policy be now that President Obama, leading from behind, has left the Middle East in a complete state of shambles? Please bear with me while I reiterate what Obama has unilaterally done with out the approval of Congress or our Military. 

The first act of the newly elected President Obama in 2009 was to go to Cairo, Egypt and apologize for all the harm the United States has done to the Middle East . Then in 2011 he managed to do the following:

1.      Encouraged the Brotherhood to remove Mubarak, the President of Egypt.

2.      Got Gaddafi the dictator of Libya  assassinated

3.      Encouraged rebels in Syria to remove their dictator Assad

4.      Pulled all our troops out of Iraq

5.      Announced the date that we would remove our troops from Afghanistan

 After that he formed an Agreement with Iran to allegedly prevent their getting the bomb. 

By 2013 it was clear that no matter how bad the dictatorships were they were better than having radical Islamic jihadists such as Al Queda or ISIS take over as they have in Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, and as the Brotherhood did in Egypt until they were kicked out by the Egyptian military. 

Because we no longer need Middle East oil, due to our fracking windfall, my 2013 blog proposed that we offer to help form a partnership of those who still need Middle East oil. That partnership would consist of China, India, South Korea, Japan and needy European countries, where the United States should only act as a facilitator. We should have only one stipulation, namely that the partnership becomes responsible for protecting the good Middle East governments and that includes Israel.  

We knew that the Obama Administration wouldn’t even try to pull this off. Instead they left a vacuum that is now being filled by Russia who moved military personnel and material into Syria in September of 2015 to preserve the Assad government. Now Russia, Assad’s Syria and Iran working with Baghdad’s Iraq government will be left to deal with the Middle East problem. Since Obama will do nothing to reverse the Russian actions in Syria, we might as well relax and enjoy our chance to leave the Middle East shambles for  the Russians to manage. Our only concern is that our leaders don’t stumble into a war with Russia.  

Regarding what Obama has done to the Middle East, we had our chance. “We the People” knew about this President in 2011 when he unilaterally did what he did to the Middle East, but in 2012 we reelected him anyway. And despite his failure to abide by his oath to uphold the Constitution and his conduct that clearly fits the “High Crime and Misdemeanor” terms of the Constitution, the Republican controlled House and Congress won’t even mention the “I” word.  

Now, we still 15 more months of this President who pays no attention to US law and as Commander in Chief will do nothing to help our allies in the Middle East. If it were not so sad and fearful, it would be laughable to see and hear our Media and Politicians wringing their hands over what to do. What to do has long passed!!