Ethan Chorin, Former Diplomat to Libya and Author
SOFREP Radio
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🗓️ 17 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s podcast, Rad features Ethan Chorin, a former diplomat posted to Libya during the 2012 Benghazi attack. This single catastrophe continues to have far-reaching effects on the domestic and foreign policy of the US and Ethan shares his account of the events prior to the attack and its aftermath.
He gives an insider's perspective on Ambassador Chris Stevens' thoughts leading up to this fateful day and the tremendous amount of risk he volunteered to take on entering Benghazi.
Ethan also comments on the rather unfair portrayal of Ambassador Stevens in the Hollywood dramatization. He points to the fact that what people want is a scapegoat for why this tragic event even took place and not an understanding of its implications to policy-making, risk aversion, and partisanship.
Grab a copy of Ethan's book Benghazi! : https://amzn.to/3RPSZRh
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Software Radio, Special Operations Military News, and straight talk with the guys in the community. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, what's going on? This is Rad with another awesome episode of Software |
| 0:35.5 | Radio, and today's episode is even more special. Not only is it Software |
| 0:40.5 | App's 10th anniversary of being a website bringing you media from within the |
| 0:45.0 | Special Operations community and abroad, but it's also a sensitive time for |
| 0:50.0 | those that are around this website who have lost friends in the Benghazi |
| 0:54.5 | attack. So it's been about 10 years, September 11th, 2012. Everybody has heard |
| 1:00.5 | about Benghazi, and if you haven't, well, we're about to talk about what happened |
| 1:04.0 | on the ground in Benghazi, and I have former diplomat, Ethan Choren, on with me |
| 1:10.5 | today, to talk about his time on the ground with extensive knowledge of the region |
| 1:15.5 | of Libya, and welcome to the show. Happy to have you Ethan. |
| 1:19.5 | Thank you very much for happy to be here. I really just want to jump off and |
| 1:23.5 | talk about your book real quick. Tell me the title of your book from your mouth |
| 1:28.5 | so we can hear it, please. The simple title is just Benghazi exclamation |
| 1:32.5 | mark, and the subtitle is long. It's a new history of the fiasco that pushed |
| 1:39.5 | America and its world to the brink, and I'm not completely responsible for the |
| 1:43.5 | subtitle, but it does the job. Yes, and I wanted to hear it from you, |
| 1:48.5 | because I read it so many different ways before we had our conversation, |
| 1:52.5 | the title, and I want to hear you say it. So while you're listening, go check |
| 1:58.5 | out that book wherever books are sold, and get into what we're about to talk |
| 2:02.5 | about. Ethan, as I mentioned, this is a sensitive time. We not only have the |
| 2:07.5 | anniversary of the Benghazi attacks that happened in 2012. We also have the |
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