You certainly have a way with words.
Do you believe she bears any responsibility for any part of Benghazi?
I'll save you the time.
We have to discuss this in the specific areas of criticism that have been offered, which i will try to isolate, here:
1)
Clinton prevented more security from being placed there in advance. I do not think she personally had much to do with that. I am sure that there were requests that were sent to her or copied to her, but I doubt that Secretaries of State routinely are the mechanism to achieve that. She is not individually culpable, any more than is any person in the chain of communication who, if they knew the future before it occurred, could have stood up and said that attention needed to be paid to that.
2)
Clinton stopped a rescue mission. This claim is laughably dumb, but for some reason it just continues to have traction in the dumber half of the GOP. Well, I guess we just answered why people still cling to that notion, didn't we?
3)
Clinton stuck to the video story too long. The first intelligence reports assumed, mistakenly, that there was direct linkage between other protests going on in the ME and this incident. Within days, the Congressional committees were being told differently. Within I believe it was on the order of 10 to 14 days, the reports and the commentary had shifted to characterize this incident more specifically as targeted terrorism.
Now, personally, I roll my eyes at the GOP feigned outrage over this. The initial but incorrect assumption by the intelligence reporters and the administration is understandable. And then I hear that they did it to manipulate the election, but that makes no sense because the mistaken issue as to the video was cleared up a month before the election.
What I think is the real narrative by both sides on this is that the GOP jumped on it to try to continue to portray Obama as a Muslim apologist, whereas in the administration's view if the video was really causing these sorts of things then it was better to criticize that in hopes that it defused what was perceived to be a growing problem.
You see, in the big picture, the GOP critics view Obama's approach to the ME as feckless and slow, whereas the administration views it long term as nuanced and trying to avoid the broad characterizations and generalizations that will lead to longer term and much worse outcomes for all of us.
I am sincerely worried that what we are seeing out of the likes of Carson and Trump is what we are really in for under a GOP administration. Reckless retaliatory bombing, completely ignoring the distinctions between these groups and how we can take advantage of that, registering Muslims, surveilling Mosques just in case, etc.
These are not solutions. These will only add to the problem.
