COLD AS LIQUID NITROGEN

In testimony by the outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Benghazi attack, Americans finally heard information on our President’s level of command and compassion for our diplomats and soldiers in jeopardy. 

In a regular scheduled DOD meeting with the President that lasted 30 minutes only 15 minutes was devoted to the crises unfolding in Benghazi. Leon Panetta expressed to the President and defended the same argument to the committee that there was nothing the military could do to aide those in Benghazi. 

The President reportedly told Panetta to do what could be done and it was on to other routine business. According to Panetta there was no follow up conversations with the President, no contact with the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the military never secured or put boots on the ground in Benghazi to secure the compound because there was no request to do so.

The Obama administration has little shock value to those of us that have been reading the fine print of his administration while ignoring the mainstream media’s sound bite spin yet I admit to being stunned by the cavalier posture of both the President and his top military commanders.

 It was an “oh by the way” discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting?  It was only a 15 minute conversation? There was no statement such as “Mobilize all the available military assets we have and get to the Benghazi compound, I want planes in the air and boots on the ground ASAP.” No follow up conversation with the President at all beyond a 15 minute conversation by the Secretary of Defense Panetta that nothing could be done?

Panetta went on to testify that the military support in incidences such as this one is not to be used as “the 911” to call for support? What?

 

Okay now all Americans especially active military and veterans should be apoplectic with disgust at the Commander and Chief and his chief minister of defense of no defense. Obama’s cold distant and complete lack of engagement reaction is beyond digestion. Travon Martin received more attention by our President than Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyron Woods, Glen A. Doherty and Sean Smith.

It is more than disheartening to know that our government watched these men undergo an assault through the use of a drone video and did not even try to move assets into place to help these men. There is no past President that I can imagine regardless of being a Republican or Democrat that would not have tried to move heaven and earth to at least try and save these men.

In fact Americans would be able to feel at least rested of unease had we mobilized the assets even if they were too late to save lives but showed our military presence in Benghazi out of respect of our men, to the military and to the Libyans, and to the world.

Instead, the President did nothing but head off to campaign to remain Commander in Chief for another term.

Instead, the President lied to the American people that the Benghazi attack was unclear as to being caused by a protest over a video or a planned act of terrorism.

Instead the President continued to claim on the campaign stump that by his killing of Ben Laden “Al Qaida was decimated”. 

Instead the President sent out Susan Rice Ambassador to the United Nations to puppet a myth that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous uprising over protests of an anti-Islamic YouTube video.

Instead, the President lied behind the skirt of Candy Crowley in the presidential debate with Romney that he had called the Benghazi attack terrorism at the Rose Garden. 

Instead, of taking responsibility his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up to take responsibility however, in the new definition of responsibility in the Obama administration that means no blame, no fault, no mistakes, no regrets, no shame and absolutely no adverse consequences such as losing their job.

Instead, of full disclosure to the families of the victims and the American public regarding all the continuing unanswered questions about Benghazi such as where are the victims that were saved by the brave soldiers who died that day, and who changed the “talking points” to claim it was a spontaneous uprising based on a video, we are still left with a silent and empty Executive Branch chair.

Cold as ice is not strong enough to describe a President that did not give a second thought (no follow up) to our Ambassador and the brave men that fought to their deaths for America and Americans.

Even liquid nitrogen is warmer than the heartless space and void chest cavity that characterizes this President’s actions and in-actions making the Grinch even on his most callous of days seem more caring than our Commander in Chief.

Americans should demand a non-partisan investigation because we have an administration covering up for the White House that did not provide cover for our diplomatic personnel. The more information that is exposed exposes a dangerously disengaged American government bureaucracy that has no accountability, credibility or soul.