We lost four people on the ground in Benghazi and handed our jihadi enemies a victory on the 11th anniversary of the original 9/11 attacks. Why?
I think we didn't respond because the administration just didn't think of America as being at war:
In a battle, you do what you can, when you can, with what you have available. Information and assets are never enough. But still, in battle, you must act. The basic problem is that the administration believes we've responsibly ended our war on terrorists and didn't even think that it was fighting a battle in Benghazi.
Well, what do you know?
In 2012, the Obama administration produced a draft National Intelligence Estimate that reached a surprising conclusion: al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That classified assessment, which has never before been publicly disclosed, was in keeping with the message coming from the White House. President Obama rode to re-election in 2012 partly on the success of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. At rallies and in press conferences, the president and top officials publicly said al Qaeda was on the run.
The intelligence community has vigorously disputed this view, apparently.
And events since that "finding" have proven the administration wrong: It only takes one side to fight a war, and the one side fighting prefers it that way.
