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On the ground, the facts are inconvenient for the Obama victory narrative. That was the message delivered Monday, with all the subtlety of a live grenade, by CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. Speaking to Chicago’s Better Government Association, she skewered the administration story as a “major lie.”
Meanwhile, the administration is finally admitting that the Benghazi attack was a premeditated act of terror–not, as it lied earlier, a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video. Team Obama says we were unprepared on 9/11 due to a failure in intelligence. Well, duh. I believe it. I wonder why the Democrats didn’t give the Bush administration the same consideration they are requesting now when the WMDs that everyone knew were in Iraq disappeared?
That’s all in the past, but Libya isn’t. Yes, that was an intelligence failure, too, but a politically, ideologically driven intelligence failure. Admitting that terrorism is still a threat–and actually preparing for it–would have contradicted the president’s fantasy narrative that he had all but destroyed al Qaeda when we offed Bin Laden. As a result, four Americans are now dead, and the president’s Mideast policy is a shambles.
Can we label this scandal “Obama Lied, People Died”? Makes a good bumper sticker.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
