The thing that’s making this silly film more powerful is actually the White House with its insistence that the film is important and gives all Muslims a justified cause to destroy American facilities and kill Americans.
The killers in Libya probably barely knew about it, and the mob in Egypt knew about it only because the Salafists had shown it on Egyptian state TV.
The rest of the world knows about it because the White House is promoting it and essentially telling them to be outraged. The Indonesians, I believe, are the group that is rioting right now, thanks to the White House.
I agree completely. By stating a position that the riots and killings were a “spontaneous response to a video, a film we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting", the White House has (in a perverted sense) validated whatever has gone as being reasonable because ‘there is an explanation for it’. It’s the same explanation that has gone on for other movies, cartoons and even teddy bears. What’s next on ‘thou shalt not offend’ list? We can quickly get to the point where every single thing that somebody says and does could be interpreted as being offensive… in fact, we just may not realize it but we’re almost there now…..if not with mooslims, the homosexual lobby and a zillion other groups. For this foreign debacle, what an incredibly insane way to respond to it…..even though the film has likely nothing to do with the nature of the coordinated attack, by taking a position that ‘it’s wrong to be offensive to mooslim sensibilities’ is to invite even more insanity.
Pray God will send us another adult like Ronald Reagan who actually knows what to do when faced with similar circumstances and never lets these children near the White House again (El Dorado Canyon when he bombed their leader’s houses and shut them up for 25 years….then the Libyans apologized).