Awright, big day today as Hillary hits the Hill to talk about Benghazi. I’m not a big Hillary fan but I think even less of these Congressional Investigative Committees that spend millions of dollars and hours of time looking into something only to conclude what was already known to begin with. For example, Ken Starr’s Whitewater/Travelgate/Monicagate Investigation spent $70 million to find out that Bill got a blow job in the Oval Office (click here.) We needed to know that right? Sure was an expensive blow job.
Buzzy used to say “Don’t waste your time worrying about what’s already happened.” I tend to agree with him even if I acknowledge the reasoning that we study history and past events to learn from them and try to take preventive measures to avoid repeating the same mistakes that were made previously. Unfortunately, that never happens as Hegel noted “The only thing that history teaches us is that man never learns from it.” (If we really wanted to investigate something that went awry and determine how it could or should have been avoided, how about looking into that incident involving the Doctors Without Borders hospital bombing that killed 20 some folks (click here?) This was supposedly a mistake on our part but something doesn’t quite add up. Smart bombs, dumb people?)
It just brings me back to square one on our whole approach to Mid-East affairs that as long as we are over there bombing and killing their women and children, they are not going to think very highly of us. They don’t think much of us to begin with but we’re not helping disprove any of their opinions of us by bombing the hell out of them. It sure didn’t take the new Canadian Prime Minister long to figure this out (click here.)
But back to Benghazi. Here, 3 years and several previous investigations later with close to $5 million having been spent after the Embassy there was overrun and 4 folks died, we are still navel gazing as to who, what and why. Pretty simple isn’t it – there wasn’t enough security in place. Want to bet that that is what this Committee concludes?