Where were Republican voices in past attacks?

Where were the voices of Republicans like Sens. Lindsay Graham and John McCain and others holding President Obama personally responsible for the attack on our embassy in Benghazi when 231 American servicemen were killed by a terrorist attack on a U. S. military base in Beirut during the Reagan administration ( October, 1983)? Where were they when warnings to senior members of the Bush administration, on at least three occasions in 2001, went unheeded that al- Qaida was planning an attack on U. S. soil? In January 2001, Richard Clarke, adviser to the president on counterterrorism, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of an al- Qaida attack; in April 2001, he warned senior members of the Bush Administration, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, of the “immediate and serious threat to the U. S. “posed by Osama bin Laden”; in July 2001, he again warned that “something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon.” We know all too well what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, despite the numerous warnings that went unheeded.

Nick Jaffe

Sunnyvale