by Barry Rubin
Imagine
this. It was well-known that in 2011 the United States was facilitating
the weapons supply to Syrian rebels in late 2011. The weapons were paid
for by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and delivered through Turkey.
We
have known for more than a year of this traffic. There were two big UN
Reports on this traffic. ( By the way this meant that the United States
was arming Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups.)
What wasn’t known was a simple detail: the United States was also collecting and shipping the weapons.
That’s
it! This is what was being concealed. After all, it was openly known
previously that the Libyan rebels against Qadhafi were armed by the
United States.
The whole mess was unnecessary!
If
it was s known that the CIA guys in Turkey weren’t just watching the
weapons supply but delivering it, to quote Clinton what difference would
it make?
Would
Congress have stopped the weapons’ traffic? No, they wouldn’t even do
anything about the arms to Mexican drug gangs that killed Americans?
Would Americans rise in revolt? No.
Would it have cost one percent of the votes in the election? No.
Did PRESIDENT Obama have to lie in a UN speech saying the ambassador was just there to supervise a hospital and a school? No.
Did a video have to be blamed so as to blame Americans and Islamophobia for the attack? No.
Was the cover-up necessary even to defend the administration’s “perfect” record against terrorist attacks on Americans”? No.
The
expose of this arms’ supply channel would have bothered few and changed
nothing. But since we knew already that the administration was helping
arm anti-American, antisemitic, anti-Christian, and homophobic, and
anti-women Islamist terrorists I don’t think the difference was huge.
Did
the cover-up have to lead to the refusal to defend properly American
personnel to prevent what they were doing from leaking out? No.
In
short this program of lies and deception and cover up wasn’t even
necessary. Those Americans may have been rescued and those lies might
have been avoided with no harm to the administration.
I
think that tells a lot about how the Obama Administration treats and
manipulates the American people. And it also tells about its very
profound incompetence and ignorance.
Barry Rubin
Source: http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/08/what-the-benghazi-leaks-mean-what-difference-would-it-have-made/
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