A Presidential Order That Is Oddly Missing After Our Embassies Are Breached

The killing of our Libyan Ambassador Stevens, three other Americans, and the complete destruction of our Benghazi mission on the anniversary of 9/11 is a big thing; especially from a security aspect.  Then, too, the breach of the Cairo Embassy, just hours earlier, brings the security of our missions overseas into serious question.

Yet, nowhere can I find a statement by President Obama ordering an immediate and complete security review of, at the very least, all of our Middle East State Department installations.  Other countries took that action within a day following the attack on our missions. But, not this President.  Making this so oddly non-presidential; if not just derelict of constitutional responsibility.

Instead, it took a group of bipartisan Senators -- Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Dan Coats (R-IN), Roy Blount (R-MO) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) -- to take the lead on this.  After seven days of inaction by the Obama Administration, those Senators felt compelled to write a letter to the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, urging her to initiate a complete inter-agency security review of our diplomatic missions overseas.

This, to me, is just more proof that we have an incompetent President at the helm of this country.  There is no more of an important responsibility of an any American President than to protect the lives of all American citizens; both domestically and abroad.  This President, through his inaction, failed this; both before the Benghazi attack and, then, afterwards.

Lastly, there are some conspiracy theorists who believe that the attack on Benghazi was really some kind of setup of a hostage situation which would have allowed Obama to heroically negotiate a hostage release in exchange for releasing the Blind Sheik; just days before the election.  While this might seem implausible, the lack of an ordered security review of our other embassies seems to support the idea that the lax security at Benghazi was intentional.

--- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Senators urge review of embassy security: http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2012/09/18/senators-urge-review-of-embassy-security/

--- The Center For Western Journalism:  Muslim Brotherhood Behind Benghazi Attack With Link To Obama: http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslim-brotherhood-behind-benghazi-attack-with-link-to-obama/#comments