Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was right to ask what difference it makes whether the administration had thought an anti-Muslim video or terrorism or both contributed to the fatal attack on the Benghazi consulate, since, as she noted, the job now is to provide better security. But her question — what difference does it make — rings true on another level.
There seems to be a false dichotomy between the anti-Muslim video and the role of terrorists, where Republicans are suggesting the big problem in the Middle East attack was plain old terrorism. Yet both terrorism and anti-Muslim hate speech can be great threats to stability in the region — it’s not one or the other. Even if it was terrorists alone who executed the Benghazi attack, the fact that hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were drawn to explosive protests against the video in Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere signifies that hate speech is still a serious national and global security issue.
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well bill, it does make a difference when the american people were lied to, why, because there was an election coming. Am I the only one that has noticed that in October terrorism was not a problem, never heard a peep, now we live in a very dangerous world. funny how that works.
migh, I'm with you on this it does make a difference, a huge difference. The President, in his second debate claimed he classified the attack as a terrorist attack on September 12, in the Rose Garden. Why then, was his ambassador to the UN claiming in the following days that is was a result of a spontaneous demonstration?d One of them was lying to the American people. They were intentionally lying to the people to win an election.