HORDES of terrorists overrun the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, shoot holes in the American flag and set fire to diesel poured outside a safe room where the ambassador is hiding. Only a mile away, a group of tough and heavily armed American operatives are preparing to launch a rescue mission. But in "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" they are prevented from doing so by an effete and clueless CIA station chief. “Stand down!” he yells, to their incomprehension and fury. “Stand down!”
The first American blockbuster of the year, directed by Michael Bay and released on January 15th, tells the “true story” (as the opening credits have it) of the six American security contractors who were on duty when terrorists attacked the America diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the assault. But the film peddles a politically potent fiction. The order to “stand down” was never made, according to multiple investigations: seven of them congressional and one independent. Those investigations, most of them them led by Republicans,...Continue reading
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