A year after Benghazi, we know of at least four failures of the Obama administration:
1. Prior to the terrorist attack, requests for additional security were turned down.
2. During the attack, which killed four people, no rescue attempt was made.
3. After the attack, the administration repeatedly and brazenly lied to Congress and to the American people as to the cause, perhaps to maintain the campaign fiction that al-Qaeda had been defeated.
4. A year later, none of the perpetrators has been brought to justice.
President Obama says the United States needs to maintain its credibility in the region. Thanks to him, we have none. A good first step in getting it back is for Congress to get to the bottom of the Benghazi scandal. What are we waiting for?
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?
1. Prior to the terrorist attack, requests for additional security were turned down.
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