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’13 Hours’: our Benghazi failure COLUMN

’13 Hours’: our Benghazi failure COLUMN

Mona Charen

A new movie that touches upon the election prospects of one female candidate for president debuts this week. Will "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" provoke thousands of angry viewers to march on Hillary Clinton's home with torchlights and pitchforks? Doubtful. The film is somewhat oblique. Hillary Clinton's name is not mentioned.

The infamous Susan Rice clips blaming the attack on a video do not appear (though the film does mention, slightly mordantly, that "press reports" are citing a video). Yet even for those coming to the question for the first time, the film very clearly conveys filmmaker Michael Bay's outrage that a tiny band of unbelievably brave Americans was left to fight off a company of al-Qaida-linked terrorists for, yes, 13 hours, while the vast land, sea and air resources of the U.S. military were not sent to their rescue.

‘13 Hours’ returns Benghazi to political spotlight (MOVIE REVIEW)
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‘13 Hours’ returns Benghazi to political spotlight (MOVIE REVIEW)

Derrick Perkins

BOSTON –"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," the new action film from director Michael Bay, depicts the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate  in Benghazi, Libya on the night of Set. 11, 2001, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.

Our political leaders and the politics surrounding the aftermath of the attack are largely absent from the thriller, which attempts to portray what happened from the point of view of five ex-commandos who survived the fight. But although the film purposely leaves the political ramifications aside, that hasn't prevented renewed controversy over a key contention made in the 2014 book that the movie is based on:  that the Central Intelligence Agency officer in charge at the scene ordered security contractors who sought to help those in the compound to "stand down" at a crucial moment.

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