US Ambassador to Libya and 3 staff members killed

[bayonetbrant]

^^ blow-by-blow updates at CNN

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/witnesses-police-fire-on-protesters-near-u-s-embassy-in-yemen/?hpt=hp_t1

[LongBlade]

Is there anywhere in the world where it's safe? This is crazy.

[bayonetbrant]

Is there anywhere in the world where it's safe? This is crazy.

well, the University of Texas is evacuating buildings b/c of a bomb threat, so... "no"

http://www.utexas.edu/emergency/
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/university-of-texas-evacuates-buildings-citing-threats/comment-page-1/

[Jarhead0331]

Is there anywhere in the world where it's safe? This is crazy.

Yes.  My place.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Bunch of Hindu nut-bags in Toronto are planning to show the movie.  It'll be interesting to see if the gubmint will allow free speech or will prevent the showing.

[Bison]

And this is the BS they expect us to believe. 

CARNEY: We also need to understand that this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy, and not to, obviously, the administration, or the American people, but it is in response to a video, a film that we have judged to be be reprehensible and disgusting.

http://freebeacon.com/carney-protests-not-directed-at-the-united-states/

[mirth]

There is the little problem of the embassy attacks being attacks on the United States itself.

[Bison]

There is the little problem of the embassy attacks being attacks on the United States itself.

I'd like to hear the logic on this one.  Embassys are soveriegn to the nation they represent.

[mirth]

There is the little problem of the embassy attacks being attacks on the United States itself.

I'd like to hear the logic on this one.  Embassys are soveriegn to the nation they represent.

Right. I'm saying that it's hard to accept that the riots and attacks aren't a response to US policy, the administration and the American people when they are tantamount to direct attacks on the US itself.

[LongBlade]

There is the little problem of the embassy attacks being attacks on the United States itself.

I'd like to hear the logic on this one.  Embassys are soveriegn to the nation they represent.

I'd find my Picard facepalm but I've got to head out the door to get some kids from school.

[Gusington]

I really am just nauseated by this whole thing, everything about it. Our flag being burned and replaced with Al Qaeda's...the deaths in Benghazi, the new attacks everywhere else. The official US milquetoasty response. I really do think if our generation had to fight Hitler we would lose before the fighting began. I'm willing to donate the balls on my mantle to the cause because everyone else has seemed to lost theirs.

Fuck all these people that take our aid money with one hand and punch us in the crotch with the other. FUCK THEM.

[OJsDad]

I really am just nauseated by this whole thing, everything about it. Our flag being burned and replaced with Al Qaeda's...the deaths in Benghazi, the new attacks everywhere else. The official US milquetoasty response. I really do think if our generation had to fight Hitler we would lose before the fighting began. I'm willing to donate the balls on my mantle to the cause because everyone else has seemed to lost theirs.

Fuck all these people that take our aid money with one hand and punch us in the crotch with the other. FUCK THEM.

Amen!!

[Bison]

There is the little problem of the embassy attacks being attacks on the United States itself.

I'd like to hear the logic on this one.  Embassys are soveriegn to the nation they represent.

Right. I'm saying that it's hard to accept that the riots and attacks aren't a response to US policy, the administration and the American people when they are tantamount to direct attacks on the US itself.

Yeah.  I misread what you wrote.  Go figure. 

[bayonetbrant]

I love it when Doonesbury is pointing out the MoBro's doublespeak

"Egyptians rise up to support Muhammad in front of the American Embassy."
-- Brotherhood Arabic tweet

"We're relieved none of @USEmbassyCairo staff were harmed and hope Eg relations will sustain turbulence of Tuesday's events."
-- Brotherhood English tweet

"Thanks. By the way, have you checked out your own Arabic feeds? I hope you know we read those too."
-- U.S. Embassy tweet

[bayonetbrant]

Also amusing from the official Embassy feed in Cairo...

Of course we condemn breaches of our compound, we're the ones actually living through this.