"GOP focus on phony issues misses needed reforms"

[applegrove]

GOP focus on phony issues misses needed reforms

By Editorial Board at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gop-focus-on-phony-issues-misses-needed-reforms/2013/05/16/ad7212da-be55-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html?tid=socials

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As we have previously written, there were serious errors by the State Department and other agencies leading up to the Benghazi debacle. An independent review board commissioned by the State Department identified some of them, such as the failure to properly fortify the Benghazi compound that was first attacked. More broadly, the Obama administration’s zeal to avoid commitments in the Middle East caused it to underestimate Libya’s need for security assistance following NATO’s 2011 intervention and to fail to prepare for the possibility of a military emergency in North Africa.

By focusing on the phony issue of the talking points, Republicans are missing the opportunity to press for needed reforms at State and a more active U.S. policy in the Middle East. They should also be spurring a sluggish FBI investigation to determine who really organized and led the attacks in Benghazi; it has yet to be established whether they were ordered by local jihadists, terrorists linked to al-Qaeda or someone else, and whether they were planned because of the Sept. 11 anniversary or inspired by the events in Cairo.

Instead, with their bigger-than-Watergate rhetoric, the GOP’s scandal-pushers are making themselves look small-minded, hyperpartisan and foolish.

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[DCKit]

1. You can't fortify shit without $$$$$, and that all went to no-bid contracts...

in Iraqistan.

[applegrove]

2. And many Republicans voted to give less security to the state department for security abroad.

[DCKit]

3. You can clarify my point(s) anytime.

Wasn't it like $300 million they shorted State?

Even at private contractor prices, that would have provided a lot of security.

[applegrove]

4. I forgot the details. I wasn't sure if that was what you were referring to. I am so bad

at American political science, being Canadian, that I would not even know what google search would give me the details of such a vote(s).

[Life Long Dem]

5. They can't even do that right

"focus on phony issues" They edited the emails.