"This is Libya’s moment. This is Libya’s victory and the future belongs to you.”

--Hillary Clinton, October 17, 2011

That was our Secretary of State on a visit to Libya almost a year ago, when administration was touting the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi as its biggest foreign policy triumph after killing Usama Bin Laden–and the success of “leading from behind.” Well, now we know that leading from behind was just the excuse for a policy of weakness and passivity–and the cost of that weakness in American prestige and lives, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Remember that Hillary Clinton ad in the 2008 presidential campaign, about who we would want answering that phone call to the Oval Office at 3 a.m.? Now we can assume she would answer the same way she’s handled this Libyan debacle: with weakness, prevarication, and stunning misjudgment.

As details leak out about the events leading up to the brutal murder of Stevens and three other Americans, it’s becoming obvious the State Department knowingly put Stevens in danger of his life, and Secretary Clinton needs to take the lion’s share of the blame.

After all, Benghazi was no remote tropical post. Clinton was the first cabinet-level visitor to Libya back in October after Qaddafi’s fall. Libya has been a major focus of the administration’s policy on the Arab Spring, which has been to get the US out of the way and let the locals run wild. All the talk has been about the success of America’s hands off policy in Libya, even as armed militias were not only roaming the streets but taking over security, including supposedly protecting our consulate in Benghazi.

The British knew better. A rocket-propelled grenade attack on an embassy motor convoy on June 11 in Benghazi led them to close their consulate there, but ours stayed open even after someone exploded a bomb nearby five days before.

Then as the September 11 anniversary loomed, nervous Libyan officials issued a warning to the American embassy three days beforehand about the danger of an attack–a warning Clinton and the State Department ignored.

Ambassador Stevens himself was worried. Pages from his diary found by CNN note his fears about security threats, a rise in Islamic extremism in Libya, and even that he might be on a Islamist “hit list.” Yet the State Department still gave him no security detail for his visit to Benghazi–and the two Navy SEALs who died at his side had volunteered to help, since no one from the State Department was stepping up.

Finally, diplomatic sources say forty-eight hours before the attack State Department officials got “credible intelligence” that there might be attacks on US diplomatic missions on the 9/11 anniversary: yet did nothing to alert anyone in Libya, Cairo, or anywhere else.

Then Secretary Clinton compounded her failure by insisting, even after the Libyan president said there was no doubt the Benghazi attack was “coordinated” and “preplanned, ” that the deaths were the result of spontaneous demonstrations caused by a six-month old You Tube video, not by our failed policy and State’s crass negligence.

Almost a week after our government's head of the Counterterrorism Center admitted to Congress it was a “terror attack,” she’s said nothing to correct her version of events. In fact, the weekend after the murders, as that version was steadily unraveling, she let UN ambassador Susan take the flack-and perpetuate the lie.

So what’s Hillary been doing lately? Appearing on Pakistani TV in a groveling apology for that same video–even as Pakistanis were rioting in the streets, killing 14 and wounding 70; the Al Qaeda flag has been raised over the US embassy in Cairo; and Libya is racing closer to chaos and civil war.

The Secretary of State is the person most responsible for how the United States presents itself to other nations–and protecting those who do that job for us.

In normal times, under a normal president, Hillary Clinton’s performance on both would be enough to force her to step down. But these aren’t normal times. So for now, she’s still at the helm at State-- to our nation’s shame.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/24/it-time-for-hillary-clinton-to-resign/#ixzz27ShhVp6C

I couldn't agree more!

Don't forget,Secretary of State is the direct Representative of POTUS!

I know, his dumba$$ needs to resign as well!

I think the situation needs to be examined and analyzed in depth so we can learn lessons from what happened for the future...Sad that we lost Ambassador Stevens and the others...Security should have been "beefed-up." I'm sure that things will be different the next time Sept. 11th rolls around no matter who is president in the future...President Bush and his cabinet were caught off-guard by Hurricane Katrina and many lives were lost...Same goes with the attacks of 9-11..We've lost so many soldiers and had so many injuries during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars...Hillary Clinton has worked hard and done an amazing job as Secretary of State. (This is how I feel anyway.)...Did she misjudge the situation in Libya? Did the president? Probably...Are there lessons to learn from what happened? Definitely!...I think I'd "cut" anyone who was in office some "slack" about this situation as long as there was a thorough investigation and "vital lessons" learned... And changes enacted to insure more security in the future...I'm not one to automatically throw the baby out along with the dirty bath water unless someone's behavior can be proven to be "intentionally criminal." We're all human and subject to make mistakes at times. None of us are perfect or "God-like."...But if someone keeps making the same mistakes over and over again and doesn't seem to have the capacity to learn from their mistakes this is a "different story."

clinton has already stated she is done after this election, whether barry loses or wins... so there is at least one good thing coming from this election...

Greeneyes.
Hussein said he will get right on it.

After traveling the world vacationing, golf, doing stupid talk shows and campaining.

Hopefully Hillblilery is a man of his word.

Sorry! I don't usually do sarcastic "snippets" or automatic "come-backs!"

Even she knows to abandon a sinking ship.............