Posted on 09/12/2012 2:27:16 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
BEIRUT, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said.
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I said Khaddhafi was a dictator, and I didn’t say he was a nice guy or ran the country well. However, we had a known property there, and while he was not supportive of the US in any way, he was somewhat intimidated and could be kept in line.
And he actually did ignore if not tolerate the non-Muslims there, if only, for one thing, because he himself belonged to a slightly odd sect of Islam. The mainstream Islamists had been agitating to take over for a long time, however, and this was the group pursued by his secret police and also the group that eventually was leading the mobs into the street. There were other problems (economic uncertainty, etc.) which enabled them to gain support among the less Islamically inclined.
There were probably some innocents there who honestly thought they were just going to have a nice secular democratic regime once they got rid of Kaddhafi, but most people (except the starry-eyed Arab Spring types in the US) probably knew they were trading one dictatorship for another and much more far-reaching one. I’d say there were no good guys in this fight, but from our point of view, it would have been better to stick with a dictator who was not a mainstream Islamist, had a strong government, and could be controlled to some extent.
As Truman, I think it was, said about some Latin American dictator, “he may be a bast*rd, but he’s our bast*rd.”
Right now, we’ve ended up with situations all over the ME where we can’t control anything and have no leverage. This is because we actually have NO Middle East policy, and these countries also know that we are so weak that the foreign aid is going to keep flowing no matter what they do.
Fast BBs needed Benghazi soonest....
Oh, wait
“Let’s see. Bush gets Kadaffy to disarm his WMD, Kadaffy helps out with intellegence, etc., Kadaffy keeps a lower profile after 9/11 and Obama helps kill him. Then the new, liberated, free people of the Muslim Brotherhood kills one of our ambassadors. “
Worth repeating.
Note to all WMD seeking countries — don’t give them up
Obama is blinded by the lefts pure ideological hate of the Jews. This fits in perfect with the Farrakhan Middle East model. Obama will do nothing and claim it is restraint after it was he that toppled the dictators that held things in check. This is a powder keg and we have the most milquetoast non-leader president in history. We may be all doomed especially if he is re-elected... Gutting the military to pay for Obamacare and other related nanny state give aways that are destroying the economy, we won’t have a military to send to fight off the rise of the new third Reich (Islam).
but somehow the left will claim we are safer... they are living a fantasy of lies, say anything... Their credibility is shot.
After seeing picture and watching Hillary response, it makes me sick.
Obama is parsing Libya, great.
I missed it. I can only imagine.
What was Peggy Noonan talking about???? Claiming that Romney’s response was too terse??? WHAT???
“...the Muslim Brotherhood is not part of the Libyan government. It’s in Egypt where they rule.”
Factual, yet irrelevant.
Regardless, the people who are in control of the government are radical Muslims and they did nothing to stop the announced protest and or storming of our embassy.
” Let me answer you this way, I think America would have been better off if that little North Vietnamese grunt who shot down McCain in ‘67 had a.) fired TWO missiles instead of one, and b.) had better aim. If McStain’s new residence had been Arlington National Cemetery instead of the Hanoi Hilton, the United States would have been spared the 30 years of unConstitutional, treasonous behavior from that Manchurian sack o’ sh*t, how’s that suit ya? “
YEP
He was there, along with the Marines, to assist in evacuating other American consulate personnel, as the Consulate had come under attack.
He was obviously a hands-on guy and devoted to his fellow employees.
RIP Ambassodor Stevens and may God comfort your family and friends.
Those “body guards” were most likely Marines.
What has happened in Libya and Egypt is proof positive that Job One is to prevent the re-election of Zippy.
For the next 55 days there is only one candidate that can accomplish that. and that is Romney.
The flaccid response of the President and Secretary of State in the face of a great provocation has endangered all of us.
Why anyone would continue to argue about voting for anyone else at this point in time shows a complete detachment from reality.
Livius, it is rare that you are not articulate.
I, too, am hysterical, having cussed out Hillary when she made her statement on the TV this morning.
It is likely that three sets of parents, and other loved ones, will be getting notices today that their Marine sons were killed in Libya.
More and more, 0bama's regime parallels Carter.
We are facing something unimaginable...
0bama and his motley crew have GOT to go. We’ve got 55 days to get it done. The ideological purists better wake the Hell up and realize that our national survival is what’s on the line.
Ambassador Noel, along with two other American foreign officers, was BEATEN TO DEATH on orders of Yassir Arafat.
Subsequently, Arafat spent more time visiting Clinton in the People’s White House than any other foreign leader.
Without wisdom, the People perish.
We are headed into a world crisis with a fool at the helm.
I was aghast when our current Co...sucker in Chief took him him out. He had the goods on a lot of Iranian, Afghanistan and other Mooslimb nations and was so damned scared he was giving it up.... Oh.. Wait. that’s why Obama let our planes help take him out, HMMMM?
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