Letting Men Die

I'm sorry, but I just can't accept the efforts by the Obama campaign, liberals, and the mainstream media to avoid discussing what happened in Benghazi, Libya that led to the deaths of four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya.

Reports in the past two days have uncovered e-mails that show that the administration most certainly know that organized terrorism was at least very likely, if not certainly, involved in those attacks.  Also that key members of the administration, including in the White House itself, were in real time communication with those under attack in Libya, but failed to send help.

Today it is being reported that not only did they fail to actively send help to those under attack, but they actively blocked help from being provided.  It makes me sick to think about this.  To know that CIA assets within a mile of the Benghazi diplomatic complex asked to go help and were told to "stand down" and that military resources an hour away in Italy were not sent immediately to help.

The two former Navy Seals that died actually disobeyed orders to make their way to the diplomatic compound to help those under attack, helped them get out and over to the CIA Annex where they were attacked again in a firefight that lasted hours longer before they were killed, none of the help the requested being provided to them.  Why was not every resource provided, every effort made to quickly help our people under attack?  Words fail.

Watch for yourself.

Then read this article from Mark Steyn on "The Incredible Shrinking President."  An excerpt:

"We also learned that, in those first moments of the attack, a request for military back-up was made by U.S. staff on the ground but was denied by Washington. It had planes and special forces less than 500 miles away in southern Italy — or about the same distance as Washington to Boston. They could have been there in less than two hours. Yet the commander-in-chief declined to give the order. So Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods fought all night against overwhelming odds, and died on a rooftop in a benighted jihadist hellhole while Obama retired early to rest up before his big Vegas campaign stop. “Within minutes of the first bullet being fired the White House knew these heroes would be slaughtered if immediate air support was denied,” said Ty Woods’s father, Charles. “In less than an hour, the perimeters could have been secured and American lives could have been saved. After seven hours fighting numerically superior forces, my son’s life was sacrificed because of the White House’s decision.”"