2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: An American Ambassador died on Hillary Clinton's watch. He was HER employee; MURDERED. [View all]Depaysement
(1,835 posts)That draws attention too. A lot of attention. It's not a panacea.
It amazes me how Hillary is blamed for an Ambassador's death in a foreign war zone, yet when 3,000 people were killed on American soil in NYC and DC, Bush's approval rating soared and nary a word of criticism was heard.
It is likely that someone in the 17th of February brigade or the oil company relayed the message that Stevens would be in town for his oil company meeting.
How much security would have been sufficient to protect Stevens? A squad? He already had that. A platoon? A battalion?
Visiting a war zone is a risk and Benghazi was a war zone. Protecting people in a war zone is difficult and problematic. I assume State thought that the remaining security detail and others were enough. They were wrong in hindsight.
A better question is why did we help to initiate the Libyan war in the first place? Why were there cheerleaders for it posting soviet-like propaganda on DU and elsewhere?