The Rude Pundit: Hillary Clinton's "What the Fuck, Rand Paul?" Face Will Make Your Day

[AnneD]

68. Considering that.:

Libya is still in shambles, rebel mercenaries that were with Gaddafi have taken home their weapons and are active in Algeria now-again a government still in it's embryonic stages, and for all practical purposes Syria is in a civil war (the Syrian government shellings have landed in Turkey), a meeting with the Turkish ambassador is not surprising. Turkey has proven to be a good and valuable ally for the US, esp. in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their bases and airspace was used and are still being used. Turkey had a large Muslim population and maybe they don't want it public knowledge they are meeting with the US. After all, we have a bad reputation in that part of the world; we need to keep the few friends we have.

Turkey might be a conduit through which we funnel arms to those rebels fighting against Asad. Frankly any government that shells and kills 60,000 of their own citizens deserves to be overthrown, imho. But how do we know that the Turkish Ambassador was not asking for humanitarian aid to help with all the Syrian refugees streaming across their borders. Turkey has gotten very little aid to help them with that headache.

Benghazi is closer to Turkey, Tripoli closer to Algeria, up until the attack, I think Benghazi might have been considered safer (I would have to check up on that).

Edited to add. My point still stands. Since he would fire those under him that were incompetent, why is it that our military, under Rumsfeld, sent to the slaughter in Iraq without the tools to do the job. And why even Iraq in the first place. And I never bought the phufcacta argument of Sadam WMD. If Clinton did not read the memo (which just seems so out of character), this pales in comparison to GWB's failure to read the August memo (PDB) about a possible air strike in this country or his staff ignoring the outgoing CIA director's briefing. (George Stevens I think). The GOP need to acknowledge the fact that their last 2 terms in the White House was a major clusterfuck and their control of the house and senate has resulted in misappropriation of fund (cutting funds to the State Department earmarked for security)