Why is the benghazi attack important within u. s. history?

Well it marked the beginning of the start of the Islamic State is Libya.

It is not really important for what happened there but it is important as a symbol.

It shows the driving out of America by the Libyans who then turned to the Islamic State.

But it is even more important to the US, not because of the people killed, but because it continues to highlight the failure of Middle Eastern Nation Building.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

i thinl it is the 1st answer