I can only guess that the people in D.C. thought that since we helped protect Lybians from being slaughtered by their former dictator, that there was no cause to be concerned for security.
Apparently the mind of the "arab street" is more primitive than they realized.
Thanks, hadn't seen that in any of the stories I've read so far.Originally Posted by LittleLebowski
"Oderint dum metuant"- Let them hate, so long as they fear. Words to live by.
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Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.
#RESIST
Honestly, dude...did you really expect it to be otherwise?
We don't have many friends in the middle east. Probably even fewer after we blabbed and got the guy who handed us Bin Laden imprisoned in Pakistan. Realpolitik: The enemy of my enemy is my friend...until I no longer need him, and then he's my enemy.
Back to TWTL. Milius absolutely nails it in TR's hunting camp "press conference."
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Great references to that movie!
Here's a fitting clip for this trouble.
Skip to 1:08:53. I couldn't find just the attack.
Wise words from the wise Grim.
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I'm voting for Romney holding my nose...but in his press conference he told some shrill news harpy essentially that we don't apologize for the 1st amendment.
It isn't much, but it's better than I was expecting.
There are pics on the web of the "protesters" parading through the streets with the ambassador's body.
#RESIST
Some are claiming those are pictures of the people trying to help him.
In my head I'm seeing CNN play video of Shughart and Gordon being drug through the streets of Somalia and I have to admit I'm having a hard time seeing those photos as an effort to render assistance to the Ambassador.
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