What difference at this point does it make?

The following link records an interaction in Munich a couple of weeks ago in February 2026.

https://youtu.be/mxjx1AQVVA8?si=I_fs-TVTyeG_zNED

The hand gestures, tone, and condescension recalled another similar event in which this statement was made:

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

That was the most despicable and callous statement I’ve ever heard uttered by an official sworn to protect the constitution, in my decades of following American politics.

That was shouted out in response to a question from Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, by the former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, January 23, 2013.

Perhaps it really didn’t matter to her.

It mattered, sadly, to the loved ones of these four Americans:

Clinton delivering remarks at Transfer of Remains Ceremony for Benghazi attack victims Sep 14, 2012 (Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

- [ ] U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens,

- [ ] State Department employee Sean Smith,

- [ ] CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty,

It mattered then, and it still matters now in 2026.

Recently the FBI announced they captured Zubayr Al-Bakoush (also spelled Zubayar Al-Bakoush or Zubayar al-Bakoush), a Libyan militant associated with the extremist group Ansar al-Sharia, on charges related to his involvement in the September 2012 attack on U.S. consular facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

It took 14 years.

But it has never stopped mattering.

In fact it has been memorialised as a Netflix movie.

I’ve not watched the movie.

But I remembered distinctly that the assault upon the facilities was mounted in no way by any haphazard crowd getting out of hand amongst protests.

And with the benefit of history behind us now, the fog of war as most would say, has been cleared.

The fierce propaganda machine at work to cast the event as accidental or incidental, rather than as incompetent judgement lapses, was gallantly spearheaded by then Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, appearing on five Sunday talk shows, September 16, 2012.

Though by November, she would recognise the talking points then as inaccurate.

I have my prejudice.

So I’d let history be the judge.

But the timing of the capture of that perpetrator 14 years later recalls the flagrant and flippant attitude demonstrated in Hillary Clinton’s strident reply.

In about a few days around the news of the capture, Hillary Clinton broke into international news in the Munich Security Conference.

When Petr Macinka, the Deputy Prime Minister of Czech Republic (and Foreign Minister) was speaking in a panel of seated speakers, apparently in ways more friendly to President Trump than accepted by Hillary Clinton, she was seen repeatedly interrupting in condescending tones and gestures not unlike the person in September 2012.

She doesn’t seem to have mellowed.

And the aura of one who’s been perched high up for too long to feel anything, surprised that actually any life matters, still fill the room.

That sickened me 14 years ago; still did earlier this February.

It’s really not personal.

It’s directed at all officials, in government or organization, USA or otherwise, who believe hardly anything matters.

Let history show who has the honourable character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66mGV8xKqo