Certainly, it’s hard to imagine that under a Bush administration it would be treated the same. If this kind of catastrophic attack — and cover-up — had happened in 2004 or 2008, it would have likely dominated presidential debates and re-shaped election coverage.
“Romney had front pages of fucking The Toledo Blade attacking him for his press release after Benghazi,” one Republican official told BuzzFeed. “You can quibble over timing , but there was outrage on the cable channels about it. Where are those voices now saying, ‘what’s the administration bungling here, didn’t they fuck this up?’”…
There is, though, one particularly surprising dog that has not barked in the coverage of the events: what happened in Benghazi has not led to any discussion about whether intervening in Libya was the right idea — not the kind of immediate second-guessing that came with the Iraq War.
The intervention was sold as a way to get involved in the Middle East without paying a high price — France and other NATO allies taking the lead, U.S. muscle and technology backing them up, no boots on the ground. And perhaps it has been a cheap intervention — after all, it’s only cost four Americans lives.
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