I’ve been watching with growing incredulity in the last 24 hours how people are blaming this Libya attack on some cheap movie made by someone unknown. Do people really believe that that this was all a coincidence on the anniversary of 9/11?
Come on…
This wasn’t the fault of some nutcase making a home movie. This was a coordinated attack on the anniversary of 9/11 by our enemy.
Plain and simple.
Although initial reports described the events as a demonstration that had spiraled out of control, there are indications that the attack may have been planned, most likely by Islamic radicals who have been gaining ground in Libya.
Stevens had gone to the consulate in still-restive Benghazi to oversee its evacuation after the demonstration had started. The building was then stormed by gunmen, who succeeded in setting it on fire.
The ambassador was well-liked by many Libyans, particularly the pro-democracy rebels on whose behalf he passionately argued during the conflict last year that brought down dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
An almost-simultaneous demonstration was held outside the US Embassy in Cairo, though events did not turn violent there. Both protests were sparked by a 14-minute trailer of the hour-long movie Innocence of Muslims, which was posted on YouTube and openly ridicules the prophet Muhammad – whom religious Muslims believe should not be portrayed at all.
The shortened version of the video is being promoted and circulated by Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian in the Washington area who has expressed extreme anti- Islamist views.
There are several indications, however, that there was a concerted effort to rile up emotions based on the crude video in the days before the attack, and that the demonstration may have been a pretext for a more serious assault.
The fact that it happened on September 11, coinciding with the 11th anniversary of al-Qaida’s attacks on the US, fueled speculation that it was a planned attack, rather than spontaneous violence.
If this had happened any other day I could entertain the explanation that these Muslim idiots got their widdle feelings hurt over a video but for this to happen on 9/11 over any other day explains everything to me.
And they know the weakest United States President in our history will do nothing. Maybe he will shoot a few drone missiles but no one, least of all members of al-Qaeda, are afraid of that. Hell, they have taken over Libya and Egypt while this President was shooting his missiles. What are they supposed to fear?
A man who explains away the fact that these Muslim animals paraded around our dead Ambassador as good samaritans dragging a dead body to the hospital?
Wow….just wow.
The action and inaction of this President over the last four years have made me so ashamed…I don’t think I have never been so ashamed of a President in my lifetime. (I was too young to comprehend the cowardice of Jimmy Carter so you have to give me a pass on that one).
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@Richard Wheeler:
“Q.E. 3 o.k’d by Bernanke also boosts BHO.”
Really, so you think Americans are going to be impressed that one rating agency has already lowered our credit rate from AA to AA-, while Moody’s and others say that the future doesn’t look good for the U.S. credit rating is going to give Obama a boost?
Bernanke threw every card he has into the game this time. He’s out of cards. There is nothing left to play with and as inflation continues to increase, and unemployment remains in the 8% range, throwing money at morgage backed securities ($40 Billion per month) is just going to hasten our falling off that financial cliff.
If the same guy who said that if he had not brought down the deficit in four years he would be a one-term president, and he’s been so good at his job, why hasn’t he brought down the unemployment rate, boosted the GDP and put stability into the mortgage backed security market?
I guess these days you have to be totally delusional to be a Democrat.
Retire 05 Q.E. 3 was a political move engineered by 2 gentlemen looking to save their jobs. Short term it should push markets to ALL TIME HIGHS— 401ks up–lending up—R.E. up albeit agonizingly slow.
You think the incumbant won’t play these cards? Better start planning for 2016. Rubio/Rice
@Richard Wheeler:
I understand that the action was purely political. But while there may be a small bump (a month of increased DJIA ) the fact remains that the government is going to be buying mortgage backed securities and that is not good. The government, in spite of the record of the GSEs, is going to plundge the nation into deeper debt for homes that people probably should loose. It will not take long for the market to figure out that QE3 is not the panacea we are being told it is. What it is is Bernanke’s last ditch attempt to spur the economy.
The market is already flooded with foreclosed homes. They should be selling like hot cakes, but when you don’t have a job, you can’t pay for a house no matter how cheap. And the BLS unemployment average of 8.1% is only acheived by dropping people from the work force.
@Richard Wheeler: The ends justifies the means. Looks like you’re into the Alinsky philosophy as well.