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CIA Bears Most of the Blame for Benghazi - Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast

The Central Intelligence Agency is the elephant in the room, big and clumsy and bumping into everything, even though everyone tries to avoid mentioning it. The CIA misjudged the se...

Benghazi: History of Pueblo Repeats Itself - Todd Crowell, RealClearHistory

Comparisons have been made, especially by conservatives, that the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last September was another Watergate. In fact, the Pueblo I...

Five Myths About Benghazi - Michael Hirsh, Washington Post

The events surrounding the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, look dramatically different depending on y...

The Deeper Blame for Benghazi - Ethan Chorin, New York Times

The deeper question is why the United States and its NATO allies believed that international responsibilities to Libya would end with military action, and that Libya would somehow ...

The Islamist Purge Splurge - Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon

What's a poor Islamist to do? All they ever wanted was to take over Arab states and impose their reactionary ideology on everybody else. For decades, they assumed that the only thi...

Obama and Clinton's Benghazi Baloney - Michael Barone, DC Examiner

Obama did not want his theme of "Osama is dead, al-Qaida is on the run" to be undercut by an Islamist terrorist attack on our ambassador. Clinton did not want her department's den...

Make Uncovering Benghazi Truth a Bipartisan Mission - Chicago Tribune

Uncovering the truth should be a bipartisan mission: A decade go, the 9/11 Commission showed how an investigation devoted not to blame but to preventing future debacles can help Am...

For Eight Months the Benghazi Lies Have Continued - Boston Herald

Surely there has never been a bigger bunch of liars than the crew currently occupying the White House and the now-departed secretary of state. The steady drip, drip, drip of the B...

Getting to the Bottom of Benghazi - National Review

On Wednesday, Representative Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee convened the ninth round of hearings on the lethal September 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. mission in Be...

The Republicans' Benghazi Obsession - New York Times

Before Wednesday’s hearing on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, Republicans in Congress promised explosive new details about the administration’s mishandling of the episod...

Hillary Hasn't Heard the End of Benghazi - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Democrats arrived at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on the Benghazi terror attack determined to defend the reputation of the person that most believe will be their presi...

Why Special Ops Weren't Sent to Benghazi - Dustin Walker, RCDefense

The Pentagon is pushing back on claims that a Special Operations unit could have saved lives if sent to Benghazi....

A Coverup Laid Bare - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics

Thanks to House Republicans, Americans finally got to hear from the State Department officials the Obama administration never wanted to testify. They are now called “whistleb...

Benghazi Conspiracy Theories Debunked - Hayes Brown, Think Progress

The "whistleblowers" at today's House Oversight Committee hearing on what really happened in Benghazi, Libya last September were supposed to break the dam that would lead to Presid...

Benghazi, Security and Hillary 2016 - Michael Crowley, Time

To Republicans, the deadly September 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, was a huge, conscience-shocking security scandal, one that Democrats are shamelessl...

Benghazi Hearings Expose Obama, Hillary - John Podhoretz, NY Post

After a remarkable House hearing yesterday, we can say this with almost complete certainty: The Obama administration knew perfectly well that last year’s Sept. 11 attack on Ame...

Libya Won't Be Obama's Watergate - Unfortunately - James Delingpole

I've just been watching the riveting live coverage of Congress's investigation into the Benghazi disaster in which US ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered by Al Qaeda affiliates w...

Benghazi Not Just an 'Inside-the-Beltway' Story - Josh Keating, Passport

I've heard some say that Benghazi is an inside-the-Beltway story of little interest to the general public. But I think it may actually be the opposite. Beltway types-- particularly...

How Obama Misled on Benghazi - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard

Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administrati...

'Disorder and Terror' Have Gripped Libya - Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

Diplomatic missions here in the Libyan capital are observing the strictest security procedures following suspicions that the bombers behind last Tuesday’s blast at the French E...

Mali's Islamists Move to Libya - Stephen & Hirsch, The Guardian

Diplomats warn that militants squeezed out of Mali by western intervention are hitting targets in Tripoli....

Benghazi Report Slams Clinton & State, Spares DOD - Dustin Walker, RCD

The Republican chairmen of five congressional committees have submitted an interim progress report to House Speaker John Boehner on their investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks on...

Libya, Korea Guide Iran's Nuke Program - Majid Rafizadeh, The National

Two years of tumult, revolt and change in the Arab world have emboldened Iranian leaders, intensifying their determination to gain access to nuclear capabilities....

Tom Friedman: Arab Spring's Biggest Daydreamer - George Jonas, NP

Like other pundits, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman can be right and he can be wrong. The difference between him and his peers is that being repeatedly wrong doesn’t ...

Islam's Global Civil War - Clifford May, National Post

In much of what we now call the Muslim world, Muslims are fighting Muslims. The conflicts fall into two broad categories: those in which militants battle militants, and those in wh...

Taking the Long View on Libya - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor

In the starkest terms, a state is defined by a bureaucratic hierarchy that monopolizes the use of force over a specific geography. Ideally, nobody need fear the authorities except ...

Libya Is Still Unraveling - Max Boot, Contentions

Barack Obama became president in no small part by castigating the Bush administration for its errors in Iraq. Now, ironically enough, as president he appears bent on repeating th...

Is America Cooking Casualty Numbers? - Vijay Prashad, The Hindu

The United States often uses exaggerated civilian casualty numbers to make a case for military intervention in strife-torn regions....

The Globalization of Hazard - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Everything is linked: Chinese drought and Russian bushfires produced wheat shortages leading to higher bread prices fueling protests in Tahrir Square....

Feckless U.S. Congress MIA Abroad - Jim Webb, The National Interest

Despite more than ten years of ongoing combat operations, and despite the frequent congressional trips to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan (usually on highly structured visits l...

Al-Qaeda's Top Recruiting Tool: The CIA - Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast

What makes someone join Al Qaeda? In the case of Abu Yahya al-Libi, the Al Qaeda luminary killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan last June, his older brother has no doubt. ...

Libya Is Barely a State -- and That's OK - Faisal al Yafai, The National

A small state that devolves much power to the regions would enable Libya to exploit the potential of trade with its neighbors -- and mark a clear change from Qaddafi's Green Book p...

France: Leader of the Free World - Philip Delves Broughton, Newsweek

The final judgment on France's interventions in Libya and Mali will take time. Its diplomatic activity on Syria has yet to stop the fighting there. But what cannot be doubted is t...

Anxious Whispers in Tripoli - Christopher Chivvis, New York Times

Over the weekend, Libya celebrated the second anniversary of the outbreak of the revolt that toppled Muammar el-Qaddafi. The violence many had feared was avoided, but this should ...

The Benghazi Killers Frolic - Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports

Five months ago, radical Islamists in Libya murdered four American officials, and President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the administration wou...

Islam's Path to Africa - Michael Widlanski, Jerusalem Post

The more radical Islamic forces are on the march. Many of the victims of jihad are now in Africa, but they will probably not be the last....

Obama's Pass-the-Buck Presidency - John Bolton, The Daily Beast

From Hillary Clinton's artful dodging to Leon Panetta's clueless hindsight, the Obama administration's bungling on Benghazi proves they can't keep us safe....

North Africa Still Better Off Without Gaddafi - Colin Freeman, Telegraph

Make no mistake about it -- the last thing that the poverty-stricken nations of sub-Saharan Africa ever needed was a violent, oil-rich, deluded nutjob like Gaddafi interfering in t...

Qaeda Finds New Life in Unstable Areas - Greg Miller & Joby Warrick, WaPo

U.S. officials said the terrorist network’s core in Pakistan and its ability to carry out large-scale attacks in the United States have been all but demolished, leading to a ...

David Cameron: Warlord of the Maghreb? - Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail

This is why I despise almost all Members of Parliament: our Prime Minister is taking us into yet another stupid war, and most MPs do not even care. Where is the rebellion? Where is...

New Old Libya After Gaddafi's Rule - Robert Draper, National Geographic

The bronze likeness of Muammar Qaddafi’s nemesis was lying on his back in a wooden crate shrouded in the darkness of a museum warehouse. His name was Septimius Severus. Like Qadd...

Algeria Doesn't Need Lectures on Terrorism - Con Coughlin, Telegraph

Gaddafi might have been a monstrous tyrant, but from the Algerians' perspective he was a valued ally in fighting al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror cells. Algeria, remember, was in...

Who's to Blame for North African Mess? - Ann Marlowe, Peace Later!

There’s a dangerous blame game being played now among the pundits, laying the responsibility for the conflict in northern Mali and the recent terror attack on the In Amenas gas ...

The West's Perverse Nostalgia for Gaddafi - Fouad Ajami, Newsweek

We were bound to come to it: a lament for the fall of Gaddafi. Mali had come apart, and there were "strategic analysts" bemoaning the demise of the Libyan dictatorship. Thousands o...

Europe: The World's New Superpower - Anne Applebaum, National Post

Extremists are still plotting acts of terror. Authoritarian and autocratic regimes are still using violence to preserve their power. The United States can step back from internatio...

In N. Africa, U.S. Should Lead from Way Behind - Blake Hounshell, CNN

To varying degrees, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies clearly do pose a threat to U.S. interests in their corner of Africa, but there's little evidence that they have ...

The Mirage of the Arab Spring - Seth Jones, Foreign Affairs

The Arab uprisings of 2011, once a great source of hope for democracy enthusiasts, have given way to sectarian clashes and political instability. The Middle East has not yet shed i...

Algeria's Secretive 'War on Terror' - Alan Philps, The National

The terrible secrets of that war remain locked away, while a generous amnesty for rebels ensures they stay that way. But still the question remains: are the remnants of the jihadis...

Why Benghazi Won't Bring Down Clinton - Matthew Cooper, National Journal

When Hillary Rodham Clinton marches up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the Benghazi attack, it’ll be the last “scandal” of her 20-year run in Washington. The q...

Plenty of 'Difference' in Benghazi Scandal - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

As Seth noted earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began her long-awaited congressional testimony about Benghazi with excuses and an attempt to misdirect the public about w...

UN Approves Air Strikes in Libya

A pro-Qaddafi crowd stormed a news conference given by Libya's deputy foreign minister at a hotel in Tripoli early Friday. The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to aut...

Gaddafi Planes Bomb Rebel City

Libyan students attend a pro-Gadhafi rally organized in the parking lot of the Rixos hotel where the foreign press is staying in Tripoli, Libya, Monday March 14, 2011. Teachers ...

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