From Benghazi to Cairo to Jerusalem to Damascus, a question: Where does America stand? (Updated)
In March 2011, the U.S. and our allies intervened in Libya’s burgeoning civil war to prevent a massacre of civilians by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in the coastal city of Banghazi. Yesterday, militants in that city — including, perhaps, some of the more extremist elements of the rebels whose cause we took up last year — showed their gratitude by killing four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya.
“Lafayette, we are here,” it was not.
The murders in Benghazi followed a siege earlier in the day of the U.S. embassy in Cairo in neighboring Egypt. Both attacks were blamed on Islamic extremists angered by a film hardly anyone in America had heard of, made by someone hardly anyone in America had heard of or discussed, that purportedly insults the Muslim prophet Muhammad. (See screen grab below, a Google search for the name of the movie in question. Note: I stopped at Sept. 5 because results in the days after that date begin to include references to the attacks, which obviously were added as updates after the fact.)
Image: Google screen grab
The attacks came, of course, on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on American soil.
In Cairo, protesters scaled our embassy’s walls, lowered our flag — which was at half-staff in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks — and replaced it with a banner similar to the one used by al-Qaida, and chanted, “We are all Osama,” as in bin Laden. As they did so, some member(s) of the embassy’s staff wrote repeatedly on Twitter — the social media platform that was widely used by young Egyptians during their uprising against Hosni Mubarak’s government — that the U.S. government condemned … the movie. Those tweets were later deleted as the State Department distanced itself from those remarks, but do not believe that the reflexive sensibility on display in the messages came out of the blue: If nothing else, our diplomats, especially three and a half years into a presidency, are well-trained to reflect the prevailing beliefs and sensibilities of the administration in office. That is their job, after all.
The interim president of Libya has apologized for the deaths in his country. As of this writing, there has been no such regret expressed by Egyptian officials. On the contrary, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of whose members is the country’s new president, called for nationwide protests against the film on Friday. At least they said the protests are supposed to be peaceful, I guess.
For his part, the president this morning issued a statement that read, in part: “While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.” The moral equivalence on display here — this is bad, that is bad, and no one should do bad things — is astounding.
But what’s really astounding is that, 11 years to the day after 9/11, our embassies in two Arab countries could be attacked by Islamic terrorists, and our government’s response would include wagging its finger at the people whose non-violent actions allegedly triggered the terrorists’ violence. That, 11 years to the day after 9/11, we still have people who believe these extremists need a reason to be mad at us.
Folks: They don’t need a reason, just an excuse to hand to the useful idiots who will continue to excuse them as people with legitimate religious grievances. (UPDATED at 12:25 p.m.: CNN is now reporting, based on information from “U.S. sources,” that the attacks in Benghazi were planned in advance and used protests about the movie as a diversion.) They just hate us. Period.
Now, “they” does not mean “all Muslims” or “all Arabs” or any such thing. But it does mean a large segment of the populations in the Middle East and North Africa, a relative few of whom trade on the ignorance and pliability of many others to pursue their totalitarian political goals.
Yet, 11 years later, they storm our embassy buildings and kill our civilians, and, 11 years later, our president doesn’t betray an understanding of the cause and effect at play here.
Add to these events and responses the statement from the White House, also yesterday, that the president is not available to meet with the prime minister of Israel, our closest ally in the region and a country known to be mulling military action to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Add to it as well the continuing massacre of Syrians by their own government, in a war eerily similar to the one in which we intervened in Libya, except for the fact that this time even our weakest efforts to stop the government-sponsored killing have been blocked by our supposed friends in Moscow.
And for all the crowing from Democrats, and specifically Obama, at their convention last week about their supposed foreign-policy superiority, the question I keep coming back to is one uttered a week earlier, by Condoleezza Rice, at the GOP convention:
Where does America stand? You see when the friends or foes alike don’t know the answer to that question, unambiguously and clearly, the world is likely to be a more dangerous and chaotic place.
Evidently so.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Just Proud To Be Here
September 12th, 2012
4:48 pm
Dog…Jesus did save his sharpest rebukes for the ‘religious men’. That’s why it’s not about religion but Relationship
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September 12th, 2012
4:50 pm
Dog Barfs:
Christians are like frogs holding a symposium round a swamp,
debating which of them is most sinful.–
Can honestly say we’ve never discussed such things at my church. We’re too busy reflecting on our own sins to worry about what others are doing.
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
4:50 pm
Bruno @ 4:46 pm
“MarkV: Bruno, where in my post have you seen anything opposing the above?”
Bruno, why did you not answer the question?
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September 12th, 2012
4:50 pm
Oops!
Make that Dog Barks.
tiredofIT
September 12th, 2012
4:52 pm
Willard is way out of his league.
Matz
September 12th, 2012
4:53 pm
KW: “They just hate us. Period.”
So do Americans. Millions of Americans “just hate” other Americans because they’re slightly different. Or they worship differently. Or vote for the other guy. Or work at Wal Mart. Or collect food stamps to feed their kids because they work at Wal Mart. Or because they were born rich, or weren’t born rich and got rich, or will never be rich. Or they have the unmitigated nerve to be poor. Or because they watch reality TV, or don’t watch musical contest shows. Or because they eat meat, or they won’t eat meat, or they use government to shove their religion on others, or because they don’t or won’t do that. Or because they won’t cut their grass already, or take their Christmas lights down. Or because their team got beaten and somebody is wearing the wrong color sweatshirt. Or because they’re not educated, or they’re too educated, or they’re foreign-educated, public educated, or home schooled. Or because they wish you Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Or because they wish you Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays.
Hating Americans? No shortage of that here. Just sayin’.
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
4:54 pm
Kyle Wingfield @ 2:00 pm
“It would have been very simple, and far more appropriate, for the tweeting staffer to point out that people in our country express their opinion without approval from our government. Likewise, it would have been far more appropriate to call on the protesters to discuss the matter civilly rather than overrunning the embassy. Right?”
Can anyone find a better example for the definition of naivety?
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
4:54 pm
It’s time to get this thing done not only for our own selfish good but for the very existence of all humanity. Further delay only waste more time and more lives.
MHS–Necessity is the mother of invention, not the other way around. As long as burning petroleum is significantly less expensive than using other sources of energy, then that’s the method we’re going to use. On the “bright” side, the cost of solar panels has dropped tremendously in the past year. Which is why solar companies like JA Solar and First Solar are now worth pennies on the dollar compared to last year.
InAtl
September 12th, 2012
4:54 pm
Yikes, Bruno, I don’t know what else to tell him. The word intransigence comes to mind though.
They BOTH suck
September 12th, 2012
4:55 pm
MHS
Unless you nationalize the industry in someway ( I am not for that), how is the government going to tell business that they can not slow up production and exploration during times of low prices?
I understand what you are saying but these oil companies are not going to be too keen on utilizing resources when they can use their middle men or subsidiaries to transport oil to the US at a cheaper rate than they can extract here.
It has happened. May or may not happen again, but it wasn’t that long ago that many oil and natural gas “taps” were capped across the US due to price.
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
4:56 pm
Hey Matz!! Miss gabbing with you next door. Hope all is well with you and yours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCImClgP_uY
A Dog Barks When His Master Is Attacked
September 12th, 2012
4:57 pm
@Just Proud To Be Here
September 12th, 2012
4:41 pm
How can anyone lecture Romney on style or comportment after Obama has made such an ass of himself on foreign policy.
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Who’s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy?
Romney is leading from their BEHINDS.
Richard Williamson, who served as Bush’s special envoy to Sudan and ambassador to the U.N.
Security Council, leveled an attack at Obama last night before it was known that Americans had
been killed.
Foreign policy has always been a tough spot for Romney.
He has to contend with both Obama’s perceived strength on the issue.
John Birch
September 12th, 2012
4:57 pm
Kelly – What damage? Our ME policy, at least before Obama, was to keep the Straits of Hormuz open and the oil flowing. MHSmith makes a decent argument that it shouldn’t have to be that way, but it is. Yet another horrendous part of the Reagan legacy, turning the energy department into a Star Wars research project. And everyone in both parties has caved into the auto industry on mileage standards for 30 years too.
Lastly, MH Smith is however missing a very important point. One day the oil will run out and it might be important to be the last country with some unless we figure out how to fly jets, drive tanks, and fire missiles using batteries!!!
Beyond the Middle of the Road
September 12th, 2012
4:58 pm
Matz @4:53: Amen!
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
5:00 pm
Can anyone find a better example for the definition of naivety?
I would say your 4:15 wins the prize hands down.
Courageous people stand up for what they believe in. Cowards appease.
tiredofIT
September 12th, 2012
5:01 pm
Maybe Ryan (wonk) can scare them with a Excel spreadsheet ( if he evens knows what one is ).
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
5:02 pm
Yikes, Bruno, I don’t know what else to tell him. The word intransigence comes to mind though.
InAtl–I was tempted to spell it out for him, but thought it would be more instructive to leave it as a homework assignment.
A Dog Barks When His Master Is Attacked
September 12th, 2012
5:02 pm
@Matz
September 12th, 2012
4:53 pm
KW: “They just hate us. Period.”
So do Americans. Millions of Americans “just hate” other Americans because they’re slightly different. Or they worship differently. Hating Americans? No shortage of that here. Just sayin’.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats;
but if you have thirty religions, they dwell in peace. –Voltaire
They BOTH suck
September 12th, 2012
5:05 pm
MHS
One more and I will move on from this discussion. When it comes to natural gas and oil, Big Oil Bizz isn’t looking to assist in weaning the US off of foreign oil. Go look up their investments in infrastructure world wide.
Will they explore more in the US given price and access? Sure, but it is always price at the end of the day, unless mandated otherwise. Price goes down too much they will cap the US wells has they have done before.
So we are stuck playing that ME game for years to come as well as waiting for other sources of energy to become for efficient, accessible and of course cheaper.
Heck, we fund Chavez via Citgo.
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
5:06 pm
One day the oil will run out and it might be important to be the last country with some unless we figure out how to fly jets, drive tanks, and fire missiles using batteries!!!
JB–I’ve always been a big proponent of purchasing foreign oil as long as it remains affordable in order to save our own supply.
Good post!!
A Dog Barks When His Master Is Attacked
September 12th, 2012
5:07 pm
@@Just Proud To Be Here
September 12th, 2012
4:41 pm
How can anyone lecture Romney on style or comportment after Obama has made such an ass of himself on foreign policy.
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Romney put his religious underwear wearing foot in his mouth again.
Even John McCain won’t defend him.
ROMNEY IS A DESPARATE MAN.
He wants to be president so baddddd.
It ain’t gonna happen.
You can’t put the stuff back into the horse.
tiredofIT
September 12th, 2012
5:07 pm
Can’t wait to hear from Queen Ann (It’s our turn).
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
5:12 pm
Bruno @5:00 pm
“Courageous people stand up for what they believe in. Cowards appease.”
Another paper hero.
A Dog Barks When His Master Is Attacked
September 12th, 2012
5:12 pm
@Just Proud To Be Here
September 12th, 2012
4:41 pm
How can anyone lecture Romney on style or comportment after Obama has made such an ass of himself on foreign policy.
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THEY are killing Romney on the networks for trying to dis Obama about Libya.
One reporter said, “Romney is painful to watch.”
Obama said, “Romney has a tendency to shoot first and aim later.”
Well Romney SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FOOT AGAIN.
Pooooor Mittttt Witttt
They BOTH suck
September 12th, 2012
5:19 pm
A Dog Barks
What does Romney’s religion have to do with anything?
You were ok when people attacked Obama for his faith?
This from somebody who is not religious nor voting for Romney
Kyle Wingfield
September 12th, 2012
5:19 pm
Matz @ 4:53: And how often do the meat-eaters kill the non-meat-eaters, to use one of your examples? Feel free to substitute any of your other examples if you think that makes it easier.
MrLiberty
September 12th, 2012
5:20 pm
9-11 was a blowback for our foreign policy in the middle east over the previous 100 years (yeah, do some historical research, history did not begin on 9-11), and yesterday was just another example of the blowback we can expect when we meddle in the affairs of sovereign nations. They do not hate us because we are free, they do not just hate us as the simpleton child Kyle would have us believe. They hate us because of our foreign policy, which has become more destructive, more empire-like, more insulting to the world since 9-11.
Just getting sick and tired of the uneducated sheep believing the constant lies from both sides of the aisle who want everyone to believe how Jesus-like our behavior as an empire has been in the region. Definitely more Satan-like I would say.
JamVet
September 12th, 2012
5:22 pm
Kyle, et al,
Are we still pretending not to know about this?
<iMitt Romney’s attempt to exploit the violent anti-U.S. demonstrations in Egypt and Libya to portray Obama as soft on America’s enemies backfired almost immediately, when it became clear the statement from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo he had cited was issued before the demonstrations began.
Overnight, the tragic news came that Chris Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, and three other U.S. officials were killed while trying to flee the besieged U.S. consulate in Benghazi. But still the Mittster didn’t quit seeking to gain political advantage. Speaking in Florida this morning, he repeated the charge that the Obama Administration was failing to stand up for for things Americans hold dear, such as freedom of speech. The White House was “standing in apology for our values” and following a “terrible course,” Romney said.
The reaction to Romney’s desperate gambit has been almost universally negative. About the only people who are sticking up for him today are Jim DeMint, the Tea Party senator from South Carolina, and Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard. Even Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, failed to echo his line of attack. Speaking in Wisconsin, Ryan described the killings in Libya as “pretty disturbing,” but he didn’t criticize Obama, and he said it was “a time for healing.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/09/mitt-romney-and-libya-how-it-unfolded.html
Unfit to lead.
MrLiberty
September 12th, 2012
5:25 pm
Kyle@5:19. So what are you blaming genetics now, or instinct, or something fundamentally removed from the piles of bodies left in our wake in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Lybia, Lebanon (to just limit the discussion to the middle east)? I think his point is that people hate other people for actual reasons, not just “because.” W is no longer president. We don’t all need to join him in lockstep support of his inane theories that they hate us because we are free (although W and Obama have certainly done a great job fixing that problem – the freedom one).
Bruno
September 12th, 2012
5:31 pm
Another paper hero.
I’m speaking for the country.
Feel free to make a case for appeasement and reneging on our values if you care to.
Matz
September 12th, 2012
5:40 pm
Hey B! Nice tune!
Mr. Wingfield @ 5:19,
I have no knowledge of meat eaters killing vegans, or vice versa. I was speaking to the prevalence of contempt in this country that Americans have for other Americans, not “killing in the name of…” specifically, although that is an awesome Rage Against the Machine song.
Nonetheless, we do have us quite a murder rate. No shortage of killin’ here, nor excuses for doing so, nor weapons to do it with. With every evening’s broadcast entertainment beginning with some gruesome murder for the heroes to solve, it would seem we’re rather desensitized as well. Even the shock of a senseless mass shooting doesn’t even last that long anymore. I mean, in my observation.
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
5:40 pm
Mitt Romney: “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.”
Romney’s statement already has been widely called disgraceful, as well as a lie, which is what it was. Kyle just obediently toes the line.
ragnar danneskjold
September 12th, 2012
5:41 pm
I was beginning to think I was too harsh on Chauncey over on the Bookman blog, but after reading Taranto this afternoon I can see I was throwing marshmallows.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443884104577647641059003360.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
5:42 pm
I am sick and tired of these paper heroes, like Kyle and Bruno, sitting on their butts in front of their computers and condemning someone, who has a murderous crowd in front of the building and climbing the walls, for trying to gain time before help would come rather than taking a stand then and there for freedom of expression.
I suppose Kyle or Bruno, if confronted in a dark alley with a man pointing gun and asking either of them for his wallet would give the man a lecture on the sanctity of personal possession. Or rather, they would want us to believe that they would do that.
So now Kyle recommends to the people in danger of their lives to “to point out that people in our country express their opinion without approval from our government.” To call on the murderers ”to discuss the matter civilly.” From which planet has he just dropped?
ragnar danneskjold
September 12th, 2012
5:43 pm
I hope all of the mindless drones criticizing Romney (for criticizing Fearless Leader) will read the Taranto essay this afternoon. Arrays nicely those arguments affirming the incompetence of Obama.
Kyle Wingfield
September 12th, 2012
5:44 pm
JamVet @ 5:22: I was watching the Cairo embassy’s tweets yesterday afternoon, well after the walls had been breached, and the account was still condemning the movie for hours — until someone at Foggy Bottom noticed and had them removed.
Kyle Wingfield
September 12th, 2012
5:45 pm
MrLiberty @ 5:25: And my point is that, while plenty of people hate plenty of other people, most of them don’t go around killing the people they hate.
Kyle Wingfield
September 12th, 2012
5:47 pm
MarkV @ 5:42: As I stated earlier, my understanding is that the embassy staff had already evacuated and was not in danger at the time. Have you read any reports to the contrary?
ragnar danneskjold
September 12th, 2012
5:49 pm
Chairman Ann’s essay this afternoon is as good as Taranto’s.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-09-12.html#read_more
tiredofIT
September 12th, 2012
5:49 pm
All I know is, if the 3AM call comes in I trust President Obama with the keys to the nuclear weapons. We don’t need a shoot first president.
JamVet
September 12th, 2012
5:50 pm
Kyle, THAT is your justification for not condemning the absurd, patently false comments from Romney about the President?
Even before news of this Romney debacle, vis a vis the American embassy killing, I was commenting just yesterday about his uncanny similarity to George “Foot in Mouth” Bush.
But this?
This portends an absolutely brutal next couple of months for the Flip Flopper…
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
September 12th, 2012
5:57 pm
I was going to write about how surprised I was by the liberal reaction to this crisis, but sadly, you’ve all lived down to my expectations.
At some point, you people are going to have to stand for something other than appeasement. It is what Americans do – stand for the rights our Creator gives us.
ragnar danneskjold
September 12th, 2012
5:59 pm
Looks like Romney was right all along. Glad he stuck to his original statement.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
September 12th, 2012
6:00 pm
Movies do not kill people, people with hatred in their heart and violence in their culture kill people. We need to quit making excuses for “sparking” these violent outbursts. We need to stand on our principals and values and hold the perps responsible. Weakness in this culture, begets more attacks.
JDW
September 12th, 2012
6:02 pm
@Kyle…”No, you mischaracterized my argument. That’s what I meant when I said you didn’t have it right.”
Well please elaborate, because to me these statements are potshots pure and simple.
“but do not believe that the reflexive sensibility on display in the messages came out of the blue: If nothing else, our diplomats, especially three and a half years into a presidency, are well-trained to reflect the prevailing beliefs and sensibilities of the administration in office.”
“The moral equivalence on display here — this is bad, that is bad, and no one should do bad things — is astounding.”
“And for all the crowing from Democrats, and specifically Obama, at their convention last week about their supposed foreign-policy superiority, the question I keep coming back…”
This statement, as astounding as it is, seems to give at least tacit support to the Right Wing Zealots that apparently purposely tried to evoke such a response.
“But what’s really astounding is that, 11 years to the day after 9/11, our embassies in two Arab countries could be attacked by Islamic terrorists, and our government’s response would include wagging its finger at the people whose non-violent actions allegedly triggered the terrorists’ violence. ”
And this rush to judgment…
“Yesterday, militants in that city — including, perhaps, some of the more extremist elements of the rebels whose cause we took up last year — showed their gratitude by killing four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya.”
Doesn’t seem to be supported by any evidence whatsoever. The initial reports don’t link these extremists to the government or groups that we aided. In fact the reports seem to be that Libyan civilians are the ones that took the Ambassador to the hospital in an attempt to save his life.
Seems to me that you have clearly gotten out in front of the facts, but by all means lets hear your response.
Kyle Wingfield
September 12th, 2012
6:03 pm
JamVet @ 5:50: And THAT New Yorker article is what you’re relying on? It’s pretty weak sauce: Jim DeMint and Bill Kristol are hardly “the only people” or even “about the only people” sticking up for Romney today. The one statement by Hillary that it mentions as having been posted before Romney’s statement did not begin the White House walkback of the Cairo embassy’s tweets; that began after Romney’s campaign issued his statement. Like it or not, the words spoken and written by our diplomats are considered representative of the administration. And the idea that this is a “death knell” for his campaign exists only in the minds of liberals intent on wrapping up this contest well ahead of time.
MarkV
September 12th, 2012
6:05 pm
Kyle Wingfield @ 5:47 pm
Kyle, are you saying that ”some member(s) of the embassy’s staff wrote repeatedly on Twitter,” as you reported, after the embassy had been evacuated? Where is your timeline from?
JDW
September 12th, 2012
6:10 pm
@Bruno…”The right course of action isn’t to give credibility to those who would stifle free speech through violence.”
Nor is the right course to give credibility to those who have abused the right of free speech just to evoke exactly this sort of response. There is nothing the matter with saying I condemn those words however I have to support their right to utter them. Is should be clear that the abuse is distasteful and not supported.
JamVet
September 12th, 2012
6:11 pm
Kyle, you still will not address Romney’s lies will you?
And if you don’t like the New Yorker’s reporting of the facts, that’s fine; there a thousand other publications reporting the same thing.
Initially, the focus was on Egypt. Around noon local time, before the protests against the video began but following threats of violence, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo posted this statement online:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
It gets better…
In response to the killing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement on Tuesday night that said,
I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack.
The statement went on to mention the anti-Islam video that had sparked the demonstrations:
Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.
The money shot:
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. 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.
Unfit to lead.
But it’s all good, He is a dead man walking. That you haven’t noticed this from the beginning is interesting…
A Dog Barks When His Master Is Attacked
September 12th, 2012
6:11 pm
@Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer’s ineptocracy
September 12th, 2012
6:00 pm
Movies do not kill people, people with hatred in their heart and violence in their culture kill people. We need to quit making excuses for “sparking” these violent outbursts. We need to stand on our principals and values and hold the perps responsible. Weakness in this culture, begets more attacks.
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No, movies do not kill people.
Why antagonize people whom you say have hatred in their heart
and violence in their culture?
Why attack their religion?
What are your principles and values?
Some would say you are no better than they are.
Your principles and values are against PEOPLE who DO NOT LOOK
LIKE YOU, ACT LIKE, PRAY LIKE YOU.
Even Jesus defended the prostitute from the “religious” people
who wanted to stone her.
Jesus said to the people, “he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Jesus also told the prostitute, “go and sin no more.”
Jesus believes that everyone desires A SECOND CHANCE.