Truth, Justice, and Mike Church

Watching the Benghazi fiasco this week, I came away mentally conflicted.  From my perch behind the wheel of a water tanker truck, I tune my satellite radio into Sirius 125 (The Patriot) channel for most of my workday.  Starting my day at 3am with the morning commute, and then pulling a 12 hour shift; I have plenty of time to soak things in and dwell on them. This week was one of the most challenging weeks mentally that I can remember going through. Let me explain.

            I start the LIVE daily lineup with Mike Church, then Glenn Beck,  followed by Andrew Wilkow, supplying me with 9 hours of [r] republicanism, and libertarian conservatism; which is where my brain lives. What I was conflicted with this week was the Benghazi coverage and commentary that all 3 men covered on their respective shows.

            I need to be right up front here and applaud Mr. Church for giving me a skull crushing migraine and a burning knot at the base of my neck on Friday morning.  Beck supplied the reasoning for the truth, Wilkow was responsible for his perfectly executed political analysis; but Mike Church? He slapped me in the face with the stark truth, minus the entire analytical breakdown of whistleblower sound bites.

            Being a former member of the USAF Intel community, I had spent most of the week glued to finding the truth with regards to what happened, who dun nit, and how we correct the mistakes with the Benghazi debacle. What I failed to process, was the realization that the whole sorted mess could have been easily avoided in the first place had the decision not been made to interject ourselves into the middle of regime change in Libya in the first place.

Emanuel Cleaver

            I had been all wrapped up in ‘who lied’, ‘why were our folks in harms way hung out to dry’, ‘what will the ramifications be, and at what level of the administration’. Good questions all, but I was missing the underlying reason that it all happened in the first place. Granted, I find it troubling that the requests for added security were not provided our Consulate personnel to begin with, that forces were then ordered to stand down and not assist in defense and recovery attempts, that officials at the highest levels of our government subsequently lied to us, then lied to us again, and then lied to us some more; just to cover their bloated, flattened backsides, just for political gain instead of being concerned with what is ‘right and decent’.

            True also is the fact that during the whistleblower session it was painfully obvious what was going on was political posturing by fake, phony politicians on both sides of our same brained two party system. Democrats pointing at funding cuts by Republicans at every turn, Republicans going after discrediting Hillary, and poorly prepared whistleblowers.  The incessant ‘condolences’ to the families, and jack jaw self adulating political bluster just to puff themselves up with camera face time. It was a joke…and a circus to say the least. I came away learning nothing that I didn’t already know.

Trey Gowdy

            Does it matter? Yes. I believe that if we allow the facts in this case to drift by the wayside without getting ‘truth’ from it, all we do is enable our leaders to steep in their ineptitude, and pettifog stories of their own conflation at whim. What we currently have are leaders that can’t lead…at all levels…and in both political parties.

            We have an executive that feels free to drop bombs on people at his own preordained discretion by sidestepping congress, with no authorization, and that actually is impeachable.  We also have a congress that doesn’t hold him accountable for blatant and constant over reaches. Congress has abdicated its role out of sheer laziness and personal / political financial expediency.

            Bottom line on Benghazi is this: Four of our citizens were killed by terrorists, Help was denied both prior and during the event, our CIA was complicit with fabricating the narrative at the behest of the White House, A film maker was falsely blamed (and is still incarcerated), and there was no competent leadership at the helm. BUT, None of this would have ever happened had we not been there in the first place.

            The sole responsibility for all of this lies at the feet of the president. He went around congress to invade another country, to overthrow and kill their president.  We had no business doing that, as Nothing in Libya was threatening us in Any way whatsoever.  What were we defending by going into Libya? Nothing.  What was the threat from Libya? Less than Nothing.  Now? All we’ve created is a Sharia driven Muslim Brotherhood theocracy, just like the one we facilitated in Egypt.  As long as the president continues to arbitrarily invade and make war abroad, we can expect more and more situations like we one we encountered in Benghazi.

            I thank Mike Church for helping me to wrap my head around this topic correctly, and it was nothing a fist full of ibuprofen and another founders red pill couldn't cure.