Susan Rice’s repetition of the “spontaneous mob, anti-Muslim
video” story on the Sunday talk shows five days after the September 11 attacks
is a big thing. Contrary to Democrat claims that the attacks on her are a
political witch hunt, it is a big thing that our U.N. ambassador gave a false
account of the Obama administration’s worst foreign policy disaster. The failure to guard our diplomatic personnel is, of course, a big
thing as well, but decisions made in the fog of war are often wrong. Rice’s
decision was not made in the fog of war but in the heat of a political
campaign.
Rice did not appear to tell the true story, but to control
the political fallout from Obama’s biggest foreign policy disaster, which
threatened his “I killed Osama and al Qaeda is on the run” narrative on the
very eve of the election.
The liberal press (see the New York Times, Big
Issues Are Lost in Focus on Libya Talking Points) characterizes the pursuit
of Rice as raw partisanship. After all, “she accurately recited the talking
points the intelligence agencies prepared.” But a conscientious public servant
is not bound by talking points that are the equivalent of “the sun rose in the
West today.”
Just a couple of media favorites -- Maureen Dowd of the Times and “moderate”
Republican Susan Collins – appear to understand the significance of Rice’s
disseminating a false story to the public (Make
Up Turned Break Up). They ask, among other things, why Rice “promoted a
story ‘with such certitude’ about a spontaneous demonstration over the
anti-Muslim video that was so at odds with the classified information to which
the ambassador had access. (It was also at odds with common sense…) … after the F.B.I. interviewed survivors of the attack
in Germany
….and established that there was no protest.”
go to forbes.com
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