The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in flames on Sept. 11, 2012. Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters
Obama’s Foreign Policy Narrative Unravels -- James Kirchick, New York Daily News
The failure to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi is a stain on the President's record.
On Sept. 11, the day he was killed in what we now know was an assassination deliberately planned to coincide with the terrorist attacks 11 years earlier, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens approved a cable to the State Department warning about the deteriorating security situation in the Libyan city of Benghazi. The dispatch noted that the leaders of two militias, some of whose members were tasked with protecting the American consulate, had threatened to quit, in protest of alleged American support for a prime ministerial candidate they did not like.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
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In Syria’s destruction, there is much to mourn -- Andrew Lawler, Washington Post
Iraq's Endless Humanitarian Crisis -- Irena L. Sargsyan, The National Interest
Team Obama and crunch time on Tehran -- Michael Widlanski, Jerusalem Post
What if there's real change in the Middle East? -- Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy
Kissinger offers wise words on China -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post
China Strikes Back: Defending Huawei and ZTE From Its Congressional Critics -- David Wertime, The Atlantic
Huawei and the China difference -- Isabel Hilton, The Guardian
Paul Kagame's Rwanda: African success story or authoritarian state? -- David Smith, The Guardian
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Chávez Rides Again -- Michael Albertus, Foreign Policy
The dangers of delaying heightened cybersecurity -- Joseph I. Lieberman, Washington Post
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