Naturally, Democrats running
interference for Hillary Clinton have continually charged that the probe
was simply an act of partisan politics designed more to hurt Clinton in
the presidential campaign than to uncover the truth about what
happened. No doubt there is truth to such an allegation.
But the most important fact about this
whole manufactured drama, the one that neither Democrats nor Republicans
want to touch, is the simple fact that what happened in Benghazi was
perhaps the most complete encapsulation of everything wrong and criminal
about the illegal US war against Libya. Moreover, it exposes the
uncomfortable truth that the US harnesses terrorism, using it as one of
the most potent weapons it has against nations that refuse to submit to
the will of Washington and Wall Street. In effect, it was not merely
terrorists that killed the four Americans in Benghazi, it was US policy.
As if it weren’t offensive enough that the House committee report has
completely whitewashed the events in Benghazi, the congressional
hearings and subsequent report do absolutely nothing to bring clarity to
what exactly the US was doing with respect to the arming, financing,
and backing of terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and other well-known
terror groups.
