LETTER: Do we care more about 'The Martian' than the ambassador?

For those who have not seen the movie, “The Martian,” it is a story of a single American astronaut stranded on Mars, for whom NASA decides to take great risks to try to rescue him.  

It is the biggest hit movie in the country, as the audiences embrace this sole American as a life indispensable, even at unbearable risk to the effort to save him. I could not help but think about the irony of this fictional story in the face of the truth of what we now know about our ambassador and the three brave Americans in Benghazi, Libya, who were abandoned by our president and secretary of state, and left to be slaughtered after many hours of attack. Within two hours of this event troops in Italy were ready to help, but ordered to stand down by the president.  

As bad, we now know from the House Benghazi hearing, Hillary Clinton went home that same night and reported she made no phone calls except a single call she received from President Obama. No one sought to rescue our men, and we now know that both Hillary and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack, yet cynically told the country and the parents of the dead, that it was due to a video.  

How can audiences unanimously embrace “The Martian” rescue, and not feel enraged at what happened in real life to our own ambassador and three brave Americans? —Nick Chickering, Whitefish