From Salon:
…The Benghazi consulate where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was murdered had no Marines surrounding it, no bulletproof glass and no reinforced doors. Libyan security officials were partly in charge of securing the building.
Among the worst trends in U.S. foreign-policy making in recent decades is the decline of the State Department and the corresponding rise of the Defense Department. State is responsible for American diplomacy — the hard work of negotiating and maintaining relations with other countries; Defense (formerly the Department of War, a more honest designation) looks after war-making and protecting national security. Few things reflect America’s skewed foreign-policy priorities more than the funding discrepancies between the two departments…
There is a rational explanation for this irrational behavior. How many jobs does the State Department create? How many jobs does the Defense Department create? War is big business. It makes some people very, very rich. Peace is for poor people. The one’s who do the dying in war. Progressives will know that they have triumphed when “war is over(if you want it.)”