Protesters storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo

The NYT has taken down and reposted more than once this morning that the US Ambassador to Libya was killed. Sounds like they're having trouble getting confirmation.

From what CNN had, sounds more like a rocket attack than a mob.

 

BR - don't give it another thought. Seriously.

 

White House statement out. Stevens is dead.

 

Here's the Times.

www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/middleeast/us-envoy-to-libya-is-reported-killed.html?hp

Sounds like a rocket attack on his car while he was in transit.

 

Fair enough, but should our government be "condemning" any independent filmmaker for choosing to make a privately financed film critical of islam? Our Govt doesn't condemn private free expression critical of christianity, not sure why the rules should be so different for Islam.

Even if not an actual apology, the statement does give a distinct impression that we are siding with, or giving justification to, the irrational nuts scaling our embassy walls. I understand the need not to inflame the situation, but does that mean we need adopt a groveling tone, or lose sight of whose behavior actually deserves the condemnation here?

Our govt didn't make the film or have anything to do with it, so attacking our embassies is an utterly irrational response. If the thin-skinned mob is so outraged by the thing, they can focus their ire on the filmmaker and company that financed the thing.

 

Exactly. The official US apology statement validates the film.

 

What "official US apology?"

The initial statement yesterday condemned an incendiary film - and went on to condemn its use as an excuse for violence.





rogue apostrophe

 

Mitt Romney statement:
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi,” Romney said. “It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”