@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, the real scandal is that so few of our citizens ever wonder about all the civilian employees working on behalf of the American public who volunteer to serve American interests and put themselves in harms way, every day and they are acutely aware that situations shift rapidly, and we sign agreements acknowledging we understand the risk. No one want to die in a terrorist attact, we all want to come home safe and sound. But the sheer honest answer is, we don't travel with a massive security team, anything can happen.
This is the very reason these civilian employees who put themselves in Harm's Way, have to rely on their bosses to protect their lives. When one of them is killed, it hardly reflects on the degree of care displayed by American citizens, it is entirely the responsibility of the people who head up the governmental agency in which they have entrusted their well-being.
The
real scandal is that the people who died in Benghazi put their lives in the hands of people who cared more about politics than their continued existence.
"...
we sign agreements acknowledging
we understand the risk."
Wow, you're a member of an American embassy posted to a hazardous region? Who knew?
Or do you have to sign the same agreement when you’re only risk as a government bureaucrat is a mean paper cut?
