Delusion

Lest we forget, it was eight years of Bill Clinton either not knowing the nature or misjudging the al Qaeda threat that resulted in 9/11/01.

As I say, I'm inclined to be generous, and put some of this down to the natural torpor and ineptitude of government. But Hillary Clinton and Gen. Martin Dempsey are guilty of something worse, in the secretary of state's weirdly obsessive remarks about an obscure film supposedly disrespectful of Mohammed and the chairman of the joint chiefs' telephone call to a private citizen asking him if he could please ease up on the old Islamophobia. 

Forget the free-speech arguments. In this case, as Secretary Clinton and Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher's teddy bear or any of the other innumerable grievances of Islam. 

The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: that's not a spontaneous movie protest; that's an act of war, and better planned and executed than the dying superpower's response to it. Clinton and Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people when they suggest otherwise.

and this.  The same people that would have you believe that the bin Ladenites somehow got up in arms over George W. Bush's plan to introduce private accounts to Social Security (read it, it's the first policy plank mentioned), planned and executed the 9/11 attacks in roughly eight months, would have you believe that 400 people with RPGs, and who knew where the safe house in Benghazi was and that Amb. Stevens would be there, were ticked off by a YouTube video.

So, after just three years of the Orwellian bullshit of "man-made disasters" and "overseas contingency operations", just what will we face after eight years of this and this?  What will the man or woman who is inaugurated in January of 2016 face some days into their presidency?  

At least the Clinton dereliction was a good time, moderately, economically.  These last three, not so much.  Four more years?