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With Rice, Benghazi Is Only the Start of the Problem
by Andrew C. McCarthy
November 30, 2012
As we awaken to the spectacle of yesterdays Palestinian coup in the General Assembly symptomatic of a colossal failure of American leadership it is worth underscoring the important op-ed authored by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Touro Institutes Anne Bayefsky in Thursdays Wall Street Journal.
The piece recounts Susan Rices unsavory record as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Ms. Rice, of course, has recently gained notoriety infamy, really for her appalling performance as megaphone for the Obama administrations effort to mislead the country into believing that a protest over an obscure video about Islams prophet Mohammed somehow led to the September 11 Benghazi massacre of four Americans, including Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
In reality as the administration well knew when Rice was dispatched to misinform Americans five days after the slaughter there was no protest. The atrocity was a coordinated terrorist attack, a siege of seven-plus hours during which the commander-in-chief failed to deploy readily available military assets to protect Americans.
It was politically expedient to lie because Obamas Libya policy created the conditions for a jihadist assault on our personnel. It was also expedient to lie because the attack, by al-Qaeda-connected terrorists, contradicted the Obama campaign theme that the presidents order to kill Osama bin Laden had decimated al-Qaeda.
The ambitious Amb. Rice agreed to do the campaigns dirty work.
The incident in and of itself should be disqualifying for Rices quest to become secretary of State imagine telling your boss right after the worst malfeasance of a checkered career that you deserved a big promotion. Judge Mukasey and Ms. Bayefsky, however, do the yeomans work of marshaling for us, and for the senators who could be asked to confirm Ms. Rice, the facts of that checkered career.
There is her remarkable propensity not to show up at work, including in crucial moments like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to the General Assembly on Irans pursuit of nuclear weapons a powerful signal of Obamas distancing of our government from a beleaguered ally, a signal communicating the emptiness of the administrations occasional lip service about having Israels back.
When she is not absenting herself, there is what the authors aptly call her inconsequential presence of which yesterdays lopsided U.S. defeat, with several European nations joining the Islamic bloc in granting the Palestinians UN observer status, is only the latest indicator. Under Rices stewardship, the U.S. has joined the atrocious UN Human Rights Council and abided its doubling down on its obsessive condemnations of Israel. Even Rices grudging votes in favor of Israel on the Security Council have been laced with demagogic Islamist talking points about Israels alleged international law violations. And she has been ineffective, at best, in mounting international support for sanctions against Iran.
Moreover, to get back to Benghazi, Mukasey and Bayefsky point out that Rice is on the Security Councils Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee. That body has expressly acknowledged the jihadist terror networks operations in eastern Libya. Yet, knowing what she knows, she still energetically mouthed the administrations Mohammed movie line on the massacre.
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