For approximately eleven hours, Hillary Clinton sat before the Congressional Committee investigating, for what seemed the thirtieth time, the Benghazi affair of September 11, 2012.  Republicans nitpicked, whined, barked, while Committee Democrats griped about the pointlessness of the whole thing.  For the most part, I agree that the Benghazi investigations have nothing to do with the killings in Benghazi of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.  Focus from the political right has been on then Secretary of State Clinton supposedly lacking proper awareness of the dangers faced by the Ambassador and the others.  I don't accept this perspective.

     Overlooked, deliberately or not, is why the attack happened--its relationship to chaotic environmental factors in Libya since the Arab Spring, Muammar al-Gaddafi's assassination during the U.S. air war which supported Libyan anti-government rebels, but failed to follow through with stabilization measures, leading to civil strife involving numerous groups, many of them severely anti-American.

     President Obama's self-admitted failure to support Libya's development jibes with the uncaring attitudes of American and European oil corporation executives who had their nostrils inhaling Libya's oil for years before the dictator died.  Obama rejects nation-building.  He practices nation destabilization.  Libya, important enough to bomb, was left in its post-Gaddafi period with an understaffed American ambassador amid a U.S. strategy for the distressed nation utilizing a CIA presence belying Obama's (and Secretary Clinton's) proclaimed concerns for democratic development and peace.  

     The U.S. war against Libya, which Obama promised at the outset would take "weeks," implying just a few, took weeks extending to seven months.  Never believe predictions about the lengths of military campaigns.

     Their outcomes, too, look from the present like shifting shadows, and one shadow enveloped Hillary Clinton, whose political ambition, to be president, caused the progressively ridiculous Benghazi Committee hearings to happen.  Fighting the possibility of "another Clinton" becoming president, Republicans have directed their poison darts at the former Secretary of State and her alleged blasé incompetence regarding the deaths of four patriots--four Americans whose deaths have been exploited by scoundrels so desperate to dirty Clinton's reputation they don't seem to realize they've made her look better during the eleven hour bitch session.

     Clinton's conduct during the Benghazi affair of 2012 means nothing to me.  American CIA presence in Libya makes a far more interesting tale--part of my country's long tradition of participation in dirty wars with tragic outcomes for the people supposedly being helped.  American foreign policy minds don't give a shit about the Libyan people anymore than they care about Palestinians.  Hillary Clinton, now and when or if she's president, supports American dominance over third world peoples; she supports the government run by Benjamin Netanyahu and its execrable acts towards Palestinians.  She voted to go to war against Iraq.  As president, she would continue the war, adding her own modifications to Obama's remote control assassinations with attendant murders of civilians.  

     The Republicans questioning her during the eleven hour session are all, like Clinton, war-greedy American Exceptionalism fanatics sitting in comfortable chairs never questioning policies that blow off the arms of children in Yemen.  The Republican committee members made her look good, the fools.  They strengthened her support, giving her needed attention as she fights Senator Sanders for the Democratic nomination, with Vice President Biden conveniently announcing he won't run for president the day before Clinton faced the clowns.  

                                                                           Vic Neptune