On October 11, 2012 the Vice Presidential debate in Danville, KY lasted only 90-minutes, but it wasn't much into the first 10-minutes that even the moderator, Martha Raddotz, wondered how Vice President Joe Biden could assert that the Obama Administration had been misadvised on the dangers of the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya which allowed for a terrorist attack and then asserted that the intelligence professionals were watching and knew exactly what Iran was up to on their nuclear weapons program.
Everyone expected a bit of a cat fight at this debate, still what we got was a little bit of arrogant laughter by Joe Biden each time his opponent made a comment, even though it is known how important the topics at hand were to the American People.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on 10-11-12 titled; "Biden and Ryan to Take Center Stage" by Peter Nicholas and Patrick O'Connor the morning of the evening Town Hall debate between VP Biden and the Republican nominee for Vice President which stated; "This year's single vice-presidential debate has taken on unusual importance," and they were right, however after looking at the results of the debate it left many of us who very much care about our foreign policy scratching our heads.
After the exchange over Libya and Iran, it sure made our government, the administration, the intelligence services, and the State Department look incompetent. In the end whether misdirection, cover-up, or lack of communication hardly matters, it just looked like negligence. So, is the Obama Administration incompetent when it comes to foreign policy? Hard to say, no one knows, but if they are even the Obama Administration doesn't know that.
What concerns me is that President Obama gave a wonderful speech apparently in Egypt after his election (He won a Noble Prize for it) and somehow everyone assumed they were on the right path and that "hope and change" at least in the Middle East might have a chance using the CFRs (Council on Foreign Relations) "win their hearts and minds" motif. But after watching the Arab Spring results, and the simultaneous protests in 20-Arab countries at Western World embassies, one has to point to the score board - these are not "bumps in the road" as the administration would have us believe, the wheels have come off the cart from a IED on the roadside.
We have to do better than this, and so, let's ask the question; does anyone really know what they are doing? It's doesn't appear so, which I'd say was Ryan's main argument, to which Joe Biden, just laughed. Too bad really, I'd expected more substance and less denial. Please consider all this and think on it.
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