christopher stevens
- Anne Smedinghoff, 25, young diplomat who had attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was among five Americans killed Saturday during a car bomb blast in Afghanistan.
- In greeting new Secretary of State John Kerry last week, members of the Foreign Service were welcoming one of their own.
- The hearings on the Benghazi attacks only strengthened Hillary Clinton's stature as a possible 2016 presidential contender.
- Propping up countries created by European colonists is not the right path for U.S.
- Clinton's stonewalling shows we'll never get answers to what lay behind the Benghazi attack
- Jules Witcover says the parting blast from Republicans probably won't do much to dim Secretary Clinton's star.
- Let's change the subject
- Skeptics notwithstanding, Clinton will accept responsibility for ambassador's death
- Once upon a time, the order of presidential succession was changed because the secretary of state was an unelected official; now it looks like it takes a political campaign to get that job, too.
- Republicans' condemnation of Susan Rice is a political sideshow
- Senate Republicans have put President Obama in a no-win situation on his nomination for secretary of state; he should pick who he thinks is best and let the politics fall where they may.
- President Obama has failed the nation and should not be returned to office
- President avoids tough questions about Benghazi attack he likely witnessed
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- There was nothing 'spontaneous' about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
- Despite election-year politics, the Obama administration needs to acknowledge mistakes at the U.S. consulate in Libya and learn from them
- Jonah Goldberg says the Libya crisis is just the latest flashpoint in the administration's failures abroad
- Polls may be trending President Obama's way, but much can happen in the final five weeks
- Obama administration missteps in Middle East facilitated Libyan attack
- Where are the peace-loving Muslim clerics to decry the violence against American embassies?
- The Romney campaign's effort to double-down on his criticism of President Obama's handling of last week's attacks in Libya distracted from his core strength: the economy.
- President Obama's weak, left-wing foreign policy lead to the attack in Libya.
- Leonard Pitts says extremist violence is more offensive than a stupid movie
- The Obama administration wasn't sympathizing with those who attacked our embassy in Libya, and it isn't apologizing to the world. But Mitt Romney is right that its response to the attacks fails to explain and defend a key American value.