Benghazi

Democrats and anti-Republicans ridicule the rallying cry of Hillary haters: "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi," they say in a rolling-eyes tone intended to convey the idea that the incident at the US Libyan compound was a molehill out of which the Republicans want to make a mountain.  We're probably soon in for a lot more of this as Hillary takes the campaign stage.

I want to see a Benghazi movie.  I think it would be riveting.    Certainly a better true story than the killing of Bin Laden (Zero Dark Thirty, which I didn't see).  Notwithstanding the idea that an assassination, even of a bad guy, is not something to be proud of, they had to sex up the killing of Bin Laden, because, how exciting is it to walk into an unarmed man's bedroom and shoot him?  And then dump his body in the ocean.  (Do you think they really did?)

The Benghazi affair, on the other hand, has lots of plot.  Pretty much all of it a comedy of errors combined with amazing ineptitude by the Hillary Clinton led US State Department.  And why in the world did they have unarmed Libyan guards at the compound?  Were they so roundly hated that they were afraid the guards might turn the guns on them?  What's the point of an unarmed guard in a city beset by continual attacks on foreign targets?  Perhaps they're just mis-described.  Perhaps they should have been called lookouts.  Anyway...that's not a take-away.  It's just a curiosity to me.

Check out this Guardian analysis:  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/us-consulate-benghazi-attack-challenge

UPDATE:  It looks like I may have my choice of two equally bad Benghazi movies.  They're both going to glorify the "heroic" efforts of the small team of security members.  It'll be like the Alamo.