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But though Christopher Stevens may have studied Islam, he had learned very little about it, and so his final lesson was the bloody one that Westerners who never really learn what Islam is about end up receiving.

“The world needs more Chris Stevenses,” Hillary Clinton said, but does it really? Does it need more tall dead blond Americans lying bloodied in the gutters of Muslim cities? Does it need men who give up the hopes and dreams of their country to take on the dreams of their enemies without ever realizing where the fatal road of those dreams leads?

Stevens’ former Peace Corps colleague says of him, “Chris devoted his career, and life, to improving relations between the Arabic/Islamic world and the West.” That he did and he died doing it, losing whatever career or life he might have had if he had not embarked on a futile errand to make the Muslims who killed him and paraded around his body like him. And like all those who have died over the years in the same cause, the effort was to no avail.

“It’s especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save,” Obama said, repeating the same lie that he used to drag America into his illegal war. Benghazi was not in any need of saving, it was the Americans who came to Benghazi, like Chris Stevens, who needed saving.

That is the terrible blind spot in our vision which, like Christopher Stevens, tells us that we need to save the Muslims who hate us, rather than showing us that we need to save ourselves.

He was the kind of person who would take the job. I guess that implied a certain hopefulness about what was going on. Somebody who thought it was all an unsolvable mess wouldn't take the position.

Possibly that hopefulness could become naivete and a false sense of security.

We don't know what kind of resources were available for security upgrades, whether he requested more security and was turned down, or whether it just wasn't a concern for him, whether he knew the risks but couldn't get what he needed to be safe or whether he was foolish and overconfident.

But anybody who took the job, hopeful or not, naive or not, might find himself going to the Benghazi consolate as it was, without much security, if that was what the job demanded.

You may be right, but I'll wait for more information. It's too easy to make him out to be foolish caricature do-gooder -- and it's too soon as well.

You’re in the right direction, but not quite there.

Stevens was like the “naturalist” in Alaska and his girlfriend who got eaten by the grizzlies.

Wildlife author killed, eaten by bears he loved

Many had warned Treadwell that his encounters with Katmai browns were too close
http://www.adn.com/2003/10/09/43465/wildlife-author-killed-eaten-by.html#storylink=cpy