More from the front lines of the Jihad against America

[MicroBalrog]

http://news.yahoo.com/libyans-storm-militia-backlash-attack-us-225317193.html

Hundreds of protesters stormed the compound of one of Libya's strongest armed Islamic extremist groups Friday, evicting militiamen and setting fire to their building.

Libyans. Expressing their opinion of US interventionism by setting anti-American terrorist compounds on fire./

[Jamisjockey]

Lybia is devolving into mob and tribal rule. 

[SADShooter]

http://news.yahoo.com/libyans-storm-militia-backlash-attack-us-225317193.html

Libyans. Expressing their opinion of US interventionism by setting anti-American terrorist compounds on fire./

Our Ambassador is still dead.

[RevDisk]

Our Ambassador is still dead.

I dunno.  I can accept setting the folks responsible being set on fire and folks wrestling control from the fundimentalists.

[MicroBalrog]

There were individuals on this very forum who argued (wrongly, IMO) that Libyans held some kind of 'group responsibility' for the murder of Ambassador Stevens unless they 'did something' about those responsible for the killings or aligned with them.

I don't know, this certainly counts as 'doing something' to me.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Our Ambassador is still dead.

to some limited degree due to our insufficient care

[TommyGunn]

to some limited degree due to our insufficient care

Yes.  WE are the ones who ought to have done more!  I mean, it's not like 9/11 was UNPREDICTABLE-- it happens once every year!!!!!

[SADShooter]

to some limited degree due to our insufficient care

I agree. Several good men were killed. Our employees. KILLED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WORK FOR US. And their supervisors' cavalier, indifferent attitude was likely a major factor.

I'm angry, and I contend I am entitled to that anger and frustration. I will offer that I do appreciate the sympathy from a segment of the Libyan population, and I do not advocate their wholesale extermination, despite any previously suggestive statements made in anger. But it's also too little too late. if this outrage had been expressed a month ago, perhaps Ambassador Stevens might be alive.

I don't see a solution, except to say that apology and appeasement ain't it with people who only respect and respond to strength.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

heck they've done more that obama to correct things

[roo_ster]

I dunno.  I can accept setting the folks responsible being set on fire and folks wrestling control from the fundimentalists.

Yeah, that works pretty well for me. 

[Doggy Daddy]

There were individuals on this very forum who argued (wrongly, IMO) that Libyans held some kind of 'group responsibility' for the murder of Ambassador Stevens unless they 'did something' about those responsible for the killings or aligned with them.

I don't know, this certainly counts as 'doing something' to me.

I would have to agree.  I'll even let CSD say it for me:

heck they've done more that obama to correct things

(Must resist urge to capitalize and punctuate!)

[Blakenzy]

With all the info now coming out concerning the warnings and prior knowledge of the threat, and the subsequent negligence, it would seem that the Ambassador was indeed willfully hung out to dry. And it all happened on 9/11, just when American feelings are at the most sensitive. What a way to rile up anti-muslim sentiment huh? I don't enjoy conspiracy theories but the whole situation smells a little too overripe. Prepping the masses to support more "kinetic military fieldtrips" perhaps?

[MicroBalrog]

Two of the fundamentalist militias have disbanded after this attack:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19690444

[lysander6]

Why do we need embassies around the world in the first place?  Can't we just have a self-service computer kiosk?

[MicroBalrog]

Why do we need embassies around the world in the first place?  Can't we just have a self-service computer kiosk?

Or better yet, an online website?

[Blakenzy]

Why do we need embassies around the world in the first place?  Can't we just have a self-service computer kiosk?

You are thinking about Consulates. Embassies are widely used as intelligence gathering hubs (yes that includes subterfuge and spying).

[purequackery]

I dunno.  I can accept setting the folks responsible being set on fire and folks wrestling control from the fundimentalists.

I can't see burning down a terrorist clubhouse as compensation for murder.

The radicals think that the UN can pass laws that bind UN member countries.  See link 1.

This is not over until those radicals are gone, and I see the problem is not confined to the Middle East.  See link 2.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/22/us-protests-egypt-idUSBRE88L0B220120922

http://expression.freedomhouse.org/reports/blasphemy_report/malaysia#tabset-tab-3

[MicroBalrog]

I can't see burning down a terrorist clubhouse as compensation for murder.

I don't think there is such a thing as a compensation for murder, do you?

[makattak]

I dunno.  I can accept setting the folks responsible being set on fire and folks wrestling control from the fundimentalists.

It's a good start.

I am still convinced that a credible threat of utter annihilation would have caused this to happen much sooner and with better results.

"Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging."

[RevDisk]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/does-not-represent-us-moving-photos-pro-american-rallies-libya/56803/

Photos with translations. Most are pretty fair. 

I don't think there is such a thing as a compensation for murder, do you?

Sure there is. To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. That is acceptable compensation.

Fire is a good second, though.