Robin Smith, former Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party and congressional candidate.Columbine. School tragedy. 9/11. Terrorist attack on America. Pearl Harbor. Japanese attack on America. Newtown. School shooting tragedy. Watergate. Presidential scandal and cover-up.
Certain words and phrases now take our minds and memories, not to their original meanings, but to the tragedies, the attacks that now define them.
Benghazi should now join this list.
On Sept. 11, 2012, the consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked.
The response from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama following the consulate attack was anything but firm and clear that there was a link to al-Qaeda.