Politics as usual

Does it seem as ridiculous to everyone else as it does to me, that our presidential candidates are embroiled over the question of when President Obama declared that our Libyan ambassador was killed by terrorists or by an angry mob?  I was going to ask "who cares?" but obviously there seem to be a lot of people that do.  But why should we care?  Is it really important that we called the killers terrorists?  And what if, in fact, the government messed up with security arrangements in Benghazi?  Someone obviously did, but then again, someone caught a young terrorist (or was he just a crazy madman?) about to blow up the federal reserve in New York, before he did it.  Do we assign blame for everything that goes wrong to the President of the United States but ignore his obvious non-participation in an operation that is successful.  There are at least twenty layers of individuals and divisions at work before any plan actually gets seen by the President.  Probably 90% of those get signed off on before they ever get to him.  Of course he's in charge of the ship and responsible for putting in place the directives for those people, but who in their right mind can believe that every thing will always go perfectly?  There will inevitably be failures, and they will end up, by virtue of their violence, getting all the attention.  But there will hopefully be many more successes, most of which, we will probably never get wind of, no matter who is President of the country.  It is a very short sighted policy to criticize the President for not plugging the security holes in advance, because it is highly unlikely that any President will see out one term without occasional failures of his system.  Someone, well below his pay grade, will ok some stupid plan, like selling guns to Mexico to trace where they go, and have them end up killing Americans.  By the way, who ok'd giving weapons to Osama bin Laden to fight Russia in Afghanistan?  And why is Mr. Romney suggesting giving weapons to rebels in Syria when we're not sure where or to whom they would really be going?  So much rhetoric to convince people there is an easy solution to a nearly impossible problem.  All that we can do is try our best, and expect the worst, for someday it will surely happen somewhere.