It's Libyan for "thank you"

[The Mad Monk]

Four dead.

[Felch]

No. Organized religion has the tendency to bring out the worst in human beings rather than the best.

You're absolutely right. I'm sure everybody here remembers when that mob of Quakers butchered four people because they didn't like what they saw on an oatmeal box.

[kentonio]

Three dead in Libya, including the US ambassador, John Christopher Stevens.

We used to bomb for **** like this, now we apologize.

Please link to this 'apology'. The article above has the US saying "We condemn in strongest terms this attack on our diplomatic mission." which is pretty harsh diplomatic language.

As for bombing, this wasn't the Libyan government, this was a mob of civilians. Who exactly would you like to bomb?

[The Mad Monk]

Whoever was using rocket propelled grenades, for starters.

[Felch]

As for bombing, this wasn't the Libyan government, this was a mob of civilians. Who exactly would you like to bomb?

Bomb civilians. It's not like it's never been done before.

[dannubis]

You're absolutely right. I'm sure everybody here remembers when that mob of Quakers butchered four people because they didn't like what they saw on an oatmeal box.

And what exactely does your otherwise brilliant remark have to do with the post I made, other than generalizing it to peer group pressure?

[kentonio]

Oh there's a shock, the 'apology' was nothing to do with the administration and wasn't actually an apology anyway.

The violence took a domestic political turn, in part thanks to a statement released early Tuesday by the staff of the Cairo embassy, which condemned the film and the "continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."

The Romney campaign's statement seemed to be an attempt to capitalize on the appearance that the Obama administration -- which has overseen the Arab Spring, and the rise of Islamist governments in both Egypt and Libya -- was capitulating to the sensitivities of an unruly Muslim crowd, rather than backing the right of an American citizen to release a disrespectful film.

But the statement criticized by the Romney campaign came early in the day, before the attacks on the two embassies, and was put out not by the White House, but by the Cairo embassy itself.

The White House later disavowed the statement as not approved by Washington, according to a senior administration official speaking to Politico.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt also commented on the statement from the Romney campaign. “We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack,” LaBolt said in a statement.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

For a board that's so consciously self-aware of its own trolls, the consistent susceptibility to the trolls of the rest of world that's shown here is kind of disturbing.

[Lorizael]

How many civilians should we bomb, exactly?

[MikeH]

"as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions"

Why aren't you, instead, standing up for Freedom of Speech around the world I wonder?

[DinoDoc]

I would be satisfied with cutting off or suspending aid to both governments as this is especially true in the case of Egypt if it weren't supported by the government the attacks wouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place. No need to bomb anyone.

@ Kentonio: That sounds more like an attempted walk back by the administration in the face it going over like a lead balloon domestically. Why would anyone not seeking to justify the violence give two sh!ts about a crappy internet video when talking about an attack on what is ostensibly US soil?

[The Mad Monk]

Haven't you heard? Freedom of speech is an outdated concept.

[kentonio]

I would be satisfied with cutting off or suspending aid to both governments as this is especially true in the case of Egypt if it weren't supported by the government the attacks wouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place. No need to bomb anyone.

Oh guess what, Egypt isn't a US funded dictatorship anymore, you can't rely on 'wouldn't have been allowed to happen' any more.

@ Kentonio: That sounds more like an attempted walk back by the administration in the face it going over like a lead balloon domestically. Why would anyone not seeking to justify the violence give two sh!ts about a crappy internet video when talking about an attack on what is ostensibly US soil?

Ah of course, so a statement put out by embassy staff before the attacks was actually an administration response to the attacks.

[Wezil]

Has Limbaugh commented on this yet? What is the official right wing talking head position?

[DinoDoc]

Oh guess what, Egypt isn't a US funded dictatorship anymore, you can't rely on 'wouldn't have been allowed to happen' any more.

When dealing with a non-democratic regime receiving billions in US aid, I think we can.

Ah of course, so a statement put out by embassy staff before the attacks was actually an administration response to the attacks.

Is this why Sec. Clinton issued a statement similar in tone to the Cairo one?