Major story the media is ignoring today.

[One of the 99]

Ambassador Stevens twice said no to military offers of more security, U.S. officials say

CAIRO — In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance made by the senior U.S. military official in the region in response to concerns that Stevens had raised in a still secret memorandum, two government officials told McClatchy.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/14/191235/amb-stevens-twice-said-no-to-military.html

[Anansi1171]

1. This does not fit with the narrative of the President being to blame-NT

[Life Long Dem]

2. Not funding security in Libya is the scandal

"One person familiar with the events said Stevens might have rejected the offers because there was an understanding within the State Department that officials in Libya ought not to request more security, in part because of concerns about the political fallout of seeking a larger military presence in a country that was still being touted as a foreign policy success.

The embassy was told through back channels to not make direct requests for security,” an official familiar with the case, who agreed to discuss the case only anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject, told McClatchy."

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/14/191235/amb-stevens-twice-said-no-to-military.html#storylink=cpy

[TheMadMonk]

3. Which has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with OFFERS of assistance.

The problem is not lack of funding. The problem is the bloody USA's constant interference in foreign affairs for the best part of the last century.

Lack of funding my arse. Defending democracy? What a fucking joke. Your country spends hundreds of billions every year on either destabilising other nations, or defending against those you've already fucked over to the point where actual patriots freely spend the only currency left to them. THEIR OWN LIVES!

Your self proclaimed "moral high ground" lies atop mountain made up of 20-30 million bodies piled up since the conclusion of WWII. 6,000 - 10,000 9/11's inflicted, directly and indirectly, by America upon the peoples of SE Asia, South America and the Carribean, Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East.

And all for what? To save suppurating pustules on the buttocks of humanity like Dick Cheney, the Walton family, and the Koch brothers from the "horror" of having to pay fair market value for the resources which fuel their empires.