US Consulate in Benghazi, 9/11/12

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Andrew C. McCarthy deftly and thoroughly dispatches the  Obama administration's blatant, repeated lies on Benghazi today at NRO, then -- naturally, as the author of the essential and super book Spring Fever, the debunking of "Arab Spring" -- hits the bullseye on the real scandal of Benghazi:

The straight line from Obama’s Libya policy of empowering Islamists to the Benghazi massacre is rarely discussed. Maybe it would be clearer if the Republican establishment had not ardently supported Obama’s war against Libya.

Remember the "Libya hawks."

Maybe it would be clearer if Romney and Ryan stopped sounding nearly as delusional about the “Arab Spring” as Obama and Biden do. Maybe it would be clearer if Romney and Ryan stopped talking about reprising the Libya debacle in Syria, joined at the hip to what they call “our ally Turkey” — Hamas’s new sugar daddy and staunchest defender. It would surely be welcome if the GOP ticket started diagnosing “spring fever” instead of manifesting its symptoms.

Indeed, it surely would be welcome. Because the real scandal of Benghazi is that is here where Uncle Sam joined the jihad.