America wins the Battle of Benghazi . . .

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2016)

. . . about 227 to 4, as best as I could count during 13 HOURS (which seemed to last at least that long in the theater). If this had been a Little League game, the "Mercy Rule" would have stopped this fiasco when the score got to be around USA 20, Libya 2, but there are no baseball teams in Benghazi. However, 13 HOURS director Michael Bay is not content to just show how each American is worth 50 foreigners, but insists upon adding his own personal political spin to this story. Bay seems to be arguing that Americans should be prohibited from traveling outside our U.S. borders. We've already forbidden trips to Cuba for decades, and our fellow U.N. member North Korea currently has put the dangerous Outside World off-limits to its own citizens. Bay is urging us with 13 HOURS to end taxpayer funding of the C.I.A., as well as calling for the closing of all U.S. Embassies and foreign military bases. He is showing us that it would have been far cheaper, far more effective, and far more practical (as well as saving thousands of American lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars) if we'd simply nuked Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan when the governments of these two rogue nations allowed 19 Saudi hijackers directed by a Saudi holed up in Afghanistan to ruin Normal Life in America on Sept. 11, 2001 (footage of which begins his movie). Maybe Bay has a point, seeing as how we've spent billions on nukes these past 71 years with nothing to show for it.