10-30-2012, 08:45 AM
["It is all about what was said, when it was said and who said it STP"]
Well, yes, I suppose that's the meat of it. Unfortunately I find it a rather daunting task to cut through this as I find it difficult to place the facts in their proper context or even to extract the facts from the spin, from whatever side they're coming. I don't exclude at all the possibility (even likelihood) that errors were made, or that there is some kind of cover up, but I'm not at all sure the error was the president's. For instance:
["So now we have Obama saying he immediately ordered done whatever was required to keep those in the embassy safe"]
Why would he not do that? What possible benefit can he derive from not doing that? This seems odd to me. Here is a guy who has made drone killings a central plank of anti-terrorism policy (even to the extent that Romney argued in the third debate that one cannot just shoot your way to safety, or something to that effect). He clearly has little qualms about taking enemy targets out. Why would he not do that if some of his own are in direct danger. It's just one of many puzzling aspects of this case for me.
Well, yes, I suppose that's the meat of it. Unfortunately I find it a rather daunting task to cut through this as I find it difficult to place the facts in their proper context or even to extract the facts from the spin, from whatever side they're coming. I don't exclude at all the possibility (even likelihood) that errors were made, or that there is some kind of cover up, but I'm not at all sure the error was the president's. For instance:
["So now we have Obama saying he immediately ordered done whatever was required to keep those in the embassy safe"]
Why would he not do that? What possible benefit can he derive from not doing that? This seems odd to me. Here is a guy who has made drone killings a central plank of anti-terrorism policy (even to the extent that Romney argued in the third debate that one cannot just shoot your way to safety, or something to that effect). He clearly has little qualms about taking enemy targets out. Why would he not do that if some of his own are in direct danger. It's just one of many puzzling aspects of this case for me.