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发帖数: 2980 | 1 Nevada’s largest newspaper blasted President Barack Obama in a blistering
editorial on Thursday about the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans
died, calling him an “unworthy commander-in-chief.”
Obama, who holds a small lead in Nevada, which has six electoral votes, was
taken to task by the Las Vegas Review-Journal for his handling of the
Benghazi, Libya attacks in an editorial headlined, “Benghazi blunder: Obama
unworthy commander-in-chief.”
“The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night,
ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours
away,” the editorial said. “It has spent the past seven weeks stretching
the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed
indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with
the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of
misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after
Tuesday's election.”
The paper went on to lay out the precursors to the attack, including the
embassy cable expressing concern over rising Islamic extremism in Benghazi,
the drawdown of a security force, and the denied request from Ambassador
Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack, for more body guards.
Even as a Pentagon drone aired a live feed of the attack, the paper wrote,
“Not only did the White House do nothing, there are now reports that a
counterterrorism team ready to launch a rescue mission was ordered to stand
down.”
“The official explanation for the inadequate security? This administration
didn't want to ‘offend the sensibilities’ of the new radical Islamic
regime which American and British arms had so recently helped install in
Libya,” the Review-Journal editorial said.
“The official explanation for why Obama administration officials watched
the attack unfold for seven hours, refusing repeated requests to send the
air support and relief forces that sat less than two hours away in Italy?
Silence.”
It continued, “Prompt and strong action from the White House on Sept. 11
might have saved American lives, as well as America's reputation as a nation
not to be messed with. Weakness and dithering and flying to Las Vegas the
next day for celebrity fund-raising parties are somehow better? This
administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best
on the economy - though a more careful analysis shows what can only be a
perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity.”
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