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SpanishInquisition wrote:Archduke Ferdinand was treated better in death than this.

Insert pithy statement about breaking a camel's back here.

Some in Egypt blame their own. "The movie is ridiculous; it's an insult to one of the world's major religions," said Belal Farouk, 28, a poet in Cairo. "But I blame the violent reaction too. The film doesn't represent the views of the American people either, just a few fanatics."

Many believe that the extremists are drowning out the voices of the majority in the region, most of whom are moderate.

"It's extremists on both sides playing with each other," Said Sadek, a professor at the American University in Cairo, said, referring to those who made the film and the hardliners who protested. "And the victims are usually the moderates and the majority of people."

Many believe that the extremists are drowning out the voices of the majority in the region, most of whom are moderate.

Reverenddel wrote:...and read the security briefs on CIA.GOV....

donut wrote:In regards to the photographs, I don't believe that is him being paraded around, I think they're actually evacuating him. In the main photo, you can see that he is clearly deceased. There's no closed fists or feet in the frame, no one is posing for the camera either. The guy to the left has a very clean pair of jeans on which seems a bit out of place for rioters. The "fireman drag" style carry the man is using and the look on his face generally seems as if he is in distress, I mean you can't see it but he isn't smiling either. I believe the caption that these are the people who brought him to the hospital.

picture of US Ambassador christopher Stevens To Libya being carried to hospital.Benghazi

"It is tragic when Americans serving their country are murdered, and we both mourn their loss and honor their service.

Part of honoring that service is to ask the obvious question: What U.S. interest is being served by putting our people – and our money – in places where U.S. personnel can be killed by extremists over a video? We launched millions of dollars worth of missiles to bring down Gaddafi, and this is what we get. We hail and encourage the outbreak of an Arab Spring in Egypt, send them billions of dollars we can’t afford, — and our embassy is breached and our flag desecrated.

In Afghanistan, we continue to put our troops in harm’s way 10 years after our post-9/11 mission was complete. Why?

The airwaves are filled today with political chest-pounding and calls for decisive action. The most decisive and prudent action we can take today is to stop trying to manage governments and peoples on the other side of the globe who don’t want to be managed, get our people out of impossible situations that have no direct U.S. interest, and immediately stop sending money to regimes who clearly cannot or will not control their own countries.

Protecting America with a strong national defense and a rational foreign policy is our leaders’ most basic responsibility. But let us not confuse national security with senseless intervention where our interests are clearly not being served."

allingeneral wrote:

Many believe that the extremists are drowning out the voices of the majority in the region, most of whom are moderate.

This is *exactly* what's happening to our own society. As the old saying goes "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". In our case, the squeaky wheels are those who push "gay rights", racism (such as sub-prime loans to people who can't afford them, welfare for everyone, etc), other "social justice" programs, "Global warming", etc...

Our society is turning into a bunch of mamby-pambys. Because of the voice of a few, the rest of us have to suffer.

This is why it's so important for so-called "Conservatives", who just try to live their lives and not bother anyone, to get their voice out there. Conservatives need to be heard, otherwise, the voice of the few drown us out.