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[quote=Anonymous]9:35,

The protests were probably a cover by the jihadists to have the heavily armed crazies go out in the middle of the crowd and start firing the heavy equipment off. Alternately, they may have been told, "If a protest begins, go somewhere and start firing." I don't know how many people were involved.

9:41 (Jeff),

The alternative to getting militarily involved would be Colonel G slaughtering his people, or the rebels winning and being very angry at the US. We could either side with a complete tyrant (the usual charge of the US in the past 50 years in that part of the world), face a winning rebellion that owes us nothing (a la Iran 1979), or try to moderate the rebellion and appeal to its better angels.

With that said, is there any indication the Libyan government or elements thereof were complicit in the attack? At least ten Libyan soldiers died defending our embassy.

As for creating a safe haven for al-Qa'eda, we left Afghanistan alone in the 1990s; look how well that worked out.

Your other posts are spot-on.

10:43,

A Ron Paul approach wouldn't mitigate the hate, the assholes would just find some other offense, some other slight.

11:55,

Even when Marines are present, their job is to (1) defend documents and burn baby burn where possible, (2) defend buildings, then and only then (3) ensure the safety of staff. If heads need to be bashed in or shot, better to have locals doing that. Security around the embassy is handled by the host country.

I would like to know what the Libyan staff were saying the State mothership, what the Libyans were saying to our embassy (or what the CIA was saying to the Libyans) before believing someone needs to be demoted to pushing paperclips.

13:01,

One of the common talking points from Republicans four years ago was "Carter passed a bunch of housing laws and that led to the subprime crisis." Or, Bush had eight years to dig us a hole, you're expecting Obama to dig us out in half the time?
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