Comments about ‘Robert Bennett: Lessons learned from embassy attack’

al-qaida and those that follow a similar ideology are still very much out there doing what they can to keep their part of the world a fertile place for despair and anger. But it doesn't help when we have our extremists feed their fires. We lost a few of our best, of those that do exactly the opposite, in making the world a place of less desperation and more communication, to this.

Romney dosen't respect facts; he thinks he is the fact. He will say or do anything to get what he wants for himself while trying to convince others he is doing it for them, a real American politician, but no statesman or true patriot.

Obama dosen't respect facts; he thinks he is the fact. He will say or do anything to get what he wants for himself while trying to convince others he is doing it for them, a real American politician, but no statesman or true patriot.

Ned - I see what you did there..... wow....

Mr. Bennett, I now see why the Tea Party disliked you so much. You think rationally. That will not be tolerated by the Tea Party. Your one comment " Arab Spring has not brought stability to Arab countries" is something that should not have been needing being said. But unfortunately there are some groups that haven't studied history very well.

Our own nation was extremely unstable for a number of years after we sent the British packing - ultimately resulting in a deadly conflict to settle unsettled differences nearly a 100 years later. Europe and Japan after WWII took years to stabilize. Even after the fall of the Nazi party there were groups who resisted for years.

Why would anyone not expect the Arab Spring disputes be settled in a matter of months? More than 10 years into the Iraq conflict, that war is far from settled business. Anyone who expects Libya, Egypt or Tunisia to take any less time has not learned from lessons past.

If the Arab Spring is a failure for Obama, then Iraq is a failure of exponential magnitude for Republicans.

Quicks judgements always leads to "oopps" moments.

Thanks, UBD. Con't help poking fun at direct personal attacks that can easily be "reworded" toward both sides of the fence.

The final lesson learned from this if in this region, US policy hasn't changed much. These feelings were there a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, and even decades ago.

While this country is now finally healing from the civil war - over 100 years after the final shot was shot - the Crusades are still be fought by many through out the world. They still feel one can through force make people live their faith. There is still deep mistrust by Christian and Muslim... still scars that have not healed. None of this is a result of Obama policy, nor Bush policy, nor any president over the last 100 years policy.

These have been occupied lands for hundreds of years, and those wounds will take generations to heal.

As L White pointed out in another thread yesterday, if Obama thinks that we are so stupid that we think that he was not warned of the impending attack, then he underestimates us. Obama was briefed on the upcoming attack. He had "intelligence" that warned him that an attack was coming, but he chose to do nothing. He chose to allow the attack to happen without trying to stop it.

He can hide behind "ignorance" and he can tell us that he just didn't know that the attack was going to happen. His "statements" contradict the statements made by other heads of government who have told us that the State Department had been warned.

What kind of "President" would lie to his own people and pretend that he was left out of the loop?

Romney was right. Obama did nothing except to apologize to the attackers. Obama knew that the attack was imminent. He knew that he had people in place who had arms and ability to stop that attack; but, he chose to use the attack for his political purposes.

He has full responsibility for the deaths that HE DID NOT STOP.

Mike Richards.... were you making the same outlandish claims about 9/11, or the 6 embassy attacks that happened after that under the Bush Administration? Were you accusing them of hiding behind ignorance? Your assertions are not over the top rhetoric, the logic that somehow Obama had the capability of heading these protest off is a bit naive. By what super human powers was he supposed to do this in a foreign land. And where were these massive powers during Iraq? Surely attacks on our interest were well known, and yet they still happened.

If you want to compare the damage done to US assets under the Bush or Reagan presidencies to what has happened under Obama, lets have it. Lets start with Reagan and over 240 Marines, and 60 embassy staff killed in two attacks in Lebanon... a place the Reagan surely knew was dangerous. Round two well discuss the intelligence failures around 9/11. Then we can finish with intelligence used to justify the launch of a war in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 iraqi citizens.

4 daaths versus 100,000 plus.... yes, lets compare.