Much has been made by Panetta and Clinton about what wasn’t known during the Benghazi attacks on Sept 11th of last year…and how not knowing froze them in place.

Not knowing the duration, intensity, or lethality of that situation should have spurred a leader to commit military assets – including Spec-Ops forces – to help fight off attackers.

Failure to send help wasn’t just incompetent…it was WILLFUL Incompetence.

If you see a child struggling after falling through ice on the lake, do you not do anything because you don’t know how long they’ve struggled, or how much longer they can?

Do you stay on shore and watch, unsure if the ice will hold your weight?

What if you had told the child to go ice skating in the first place?

The right thing would be to do whatever can be done to help, not just sit and watch.

What Obama, Panetta, and Clinton did is the equivalent of telling a child to go out and play on the ice; then, when hearing screams of distress and (from a window) seeing the child struggle, rather than help…chose to turn the lights out…and go back to sleep.

Their job was to protect Americans they put in harm’s way…and they did NOTHING.

(Actually, they did worse, if stand-down orders count as an ‘act’!)

How can any sane person defend such lethal incompetence?