This hearing is obligatory for the Right Wing Republicans who felt that grave robbing Bengazi for political advantage would benefit them in the Presidential Campaign ... it didn't ... but you get Rand Paul hopping up and down one foot pretending to be somebody relevant, and John McCain can try to look something more than antiquated. Perhaps the Republicans can prompt Clinton into some video moments that can be used against her should she run in 2016.
What this hearing is not about is getting to the bottom of what happened in Bengazi, or making the families of those lost whole.
I think anyone rational recognizes the risks involved in working in the foreign service, intelligence community, or military. To think that any of these fields are a walk in the park is naive. Ambassador Stevens isn't the first lost to the maelstrom of an unsettled humanity and will not be the last. Bengazi was a tragedy, that is the only thing that truly matters. All the rest of the breast-beating, finger pointing, and righteous indignation on display by Republicans is base politics at its worst.
And I am certain that the families of those lost at Bengazi have more facts of what happened to their loved ones than the families of the thousands of military personnel lost in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ever had. Let's not kid ourselves.
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