I'm going to keep this short because I know there's no way I can print what I really think without inciting a flame war of epic proportions. J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, was murdered by Muslim extremists in Benghazi today. Protesters stormed the US Consulate and burned it to the ground. Stevens was suffocated in his car, and the three diplomats with him were shot to death.
This is in addition to the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo yesterday.
How should the U.S. respond?
you can change the regime, but you can't change the people.
Is this enough provocation for boots on the ground?
Really sad/fucked up situation. My view has always been to stay the fuck out of Middle Eastern affairs, but I realize it's a complicated issue.
Killing a US diplomat is serious enough to incite military action but I believe it will not happen b/c in 2 months we have an election and Obama wont risk sending troops to Libya after his main campaign strategy was to be different from the Bush era that sent troops in too quickly.
Its a really sad thing, all those people clearly are more cult followers than anything else by their behavior. I know I bash America every once in a while, but seeing this happening as a western makes me feel as if those things, those creatures come from the fucking dark ages. There should be a "mock mohammed (or however it is written) day" in all western nations, come and get us all.
I don't want another war, but "strong condemnation" is a wholly inadequate response. I would like any retaliation to specifically target the group that attacked the embassy. Drone strikes, special forces raids, etc. We don't need to "fix" Libya/Egypt...I doubt that's even possible.
This is why the West should never intervene in other countries, especially not under the terribly fake message of "protecting the people" that was used in Libya and is being used in Syria. The 'rebels' are just bands of different militia who do NOT have the Libyan people's best interests at heart and just want power for themselves.
The issue is, we are so jaded from years of conflicts over there that the response is very well going to be muted. In fact, I didn't even realize they stormed it and burned it until I read your post this morning. Our media is fucking disgraceful, and for this to come right after the anniversary of September 11th it really gets me going. Obama will surely do little because he has an election coming up. Frankly, it reminds me how pathetic our leaders are if they allow attacks like this to go unpunished. You simply can't let this go. It would be shameful if we did.
Don't worry, even when our pussy-in-chief doesn't authorize it, we're still taking care of business when something happens to one of our own. You just won't hear him take credit for it.
I'd wager the retaliation for this will be more 'Munich' style than full boots on the ground (which is a stupid idea)
It's always sad to see death. You have to remember that Libya is still a war zone.
Not to be controversial, but maybe an appropriate response would be to leave the country (Libya). I mean Obama decided to pick sides in a civil war and, through NATO, repeatedly bomb the country and depose its dictator. The attack on the embassy in Libya is a direct consequence of US presence there and US involvement in the Libyan war and, most likely, continued involvement in the internal affairs of the country.
These are all post-colonial countries/societies (Middle East & North Africa). It's been less than a generation/lifetime since most of them got rid of the previous imperial occupiers (Britain, France & Italy) after the fall of the Ottoman empire. Maybe it's best if the US doesn't seem like it's taking their place through occupations, bombing and support of various different political factions/regimes.
Maybe this incident could have been avoided if Obama had sought congressional approval of the war. I don't know.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong — Ronald Reagan
That being said, USA is always sending in civilian contractors and SpecOps teams to do dirty shit. If you think you can burn down an American embassy and kill our ambassadors without there being repercussions, you are wrong.
I'm going to ask the obvious question; why didnt the Marines stationed there send a couple hundred of these fucks with the Ambassador to the great beyond? Pretty sure protecting the Ambassador is rather high on the list when you're an embassy guard. Pretty embarassing for them and infuriating for me.
Knowing a little bit about how MSG works, I think I can answer this one. First, this was a consulate and not an embassy, so there's a better than 50/50 shot that there were no Marine guards there.
It's a common misconception that the Marine Security Guard detail at an embassy is there to protect the embassy and/or embassy personnel. This is simply not the case. The MSG has one mission and one mission only: to protect (and, in the event of being overrun, destroy) classified information. That's it. Not to repel assaults, not to be bodyguards, and not function as an assault force.
The security of the embassy is the responsibility of the embassy security office and the local police. Which speaks to a much larger problem in this case: the local police in both Cairo and Benghazi tasked with protecting the embassy (and consulate, respectively) allowed this to happen.
As for the Israeli based in Cali: how about spouting off from Israel and drawing fire to Israel. Be a man about it instead of having us take the bullet. "I didn't know this would cause this reaction": bullshit, you poke a hornet's nest and this is what they do. You want to stir the pot, do it at YOUR cost, not OURS. It's not like we don't do enough proping up that tiny speck of nothing...don't make our job harder. Take this literally, it's not a judgement of Israel one way or the other, I'm just commenting on this incident.
I'm not sure what people think sending troops in will accomplish, it's a civil war and it will just become the common denominator to hate us. Drone / special force strikes to further our goals is more likely to get better results for the time being...and yes, this president authorizes them. I'm sure the CIA is going to be working overtime snuffing baddies now, they're only human and will want revenge: they also can kill with a good deal more impunity than troops that can be openly cited in the larger relationship management environment.
Ultimately, MENA countries are their own worst enemy. Yeah, the US wants oil and all that, but we don't absolutely need it from them. More important is regional stability: people criticize the US for managing the chaos over there, but I'm thinking unmitigated war would be a total disaster. Another US objective is to prevent the Chinese and Russians from setting up camp....then MENA pplz would really be fucked. Look at our invasion of Afghanistan, and look at the Soviet invasion. No comparison.
The timing, well it sucks. Lots of raw nerves over here, and if we held ourselves to the same shitty logic as the MENA whakos, we'd be going in for honor kills right now. I guess this is one of the reasons we're BETTER THAN THEM. My personal opinion: to hell with MENA. Manage the chaos in a way that's beneficial to us, leave the door open for them to be constructive (not holding my breath) and limit our losses. Just because they're a mess doesn't mean we have to be.
Obama is such a bitch
McCain would've handled these clowns
Killing a diplomat will probably never warrant sending troops to a country, in the public's eyes, regardless of an election. This does not exclude covert action. I'm sure we have "Analysts" on the ground working their contacts to bring down the people responsible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this in retaliation to a movie?
In that case - and not that it makes much of a difference - isn't it a little misleading to say our ambassador was "assassinated" when really he was just one of the people who got killed by this mob of reckless monkeys? If that's the case, I think we should probably be focusing on said monkeys and not trying to criticize US foreign policy and involvement in Libyan civil war.
And to echo a few others, I'd venture to guess that at least a few of the people involved in the killing are already... indisposed. Just won't be making front page news any time soon.
I am just curious, do any of you guys know that movie? I assume few of us watched that, then how do people in Libya notice that??
"over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad" - AP
This video:
That doesn't make it justified though. For some reason Islam has a particular sensitivity to criticism, which I can vouch for as being a cultural thing (every Middle Eastern man is overly sensitive to being emasculated, as are most Europeans net of England) but hell, rip on Jesus or Buddha or Zeus all you want and nobody else is going to blow up your embassy for it. These guys are special apparently.
Yes here are the trailers (sorry don't know how to embed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AccGMUIQQRE
The fact that they would get so pissed off about something so stupid shows how insane Middle Eastern Muslims are.
Statement by the President on the Attack in Benghazi
I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives.
I have directed my Administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe. 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.
On a personal note, Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States. Throughout the Libyan revolution, he selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi. As Ambassador in Tripoli, he has supported Libya's transition to democracy. His legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice. I am profoundly grateful for his service to my Administration, and deeply saddened by this loss.
The brave Americans we lost represent the extraordinary service and sacrifices that our civilians make every day around the globe. As we stand united with their families, let us now redouble our own efforts to carry their work forward.
official statement by the pres
There is no solution to the Middle East. It all comes back to the religion and how much it contrasts with Western ideals. I know there are peaceful practitioners of Islam and Muslim religions as I'm so often reminded but that's obviously not the case in these areas. There's really no reason to continue dumping aid into these countries that mostly hate America. We have tried working with them and nothing has really changed. On the other hand, the more you try to fight, the more intense there hate gets. I'm not advocating this at all but the only way any country could win a war in the middle east would be to wipe out the country. Trying to do what the US has been doing for the past few years is a waste of time, money, and lives.
Happy,
Just as I suspected, there were no Marines there:
http://gma.yahoo.com/u-s--ambassador-to-libya-christopher-stevens-kille…
Pretty common for a consulate, actually. We can't be everywhere.
But we're heading there now:
Motherfuckers.
Looks like they decided to parade the Ambassador's body around the town square when they were done:
Filthy, backward fucking savages.
This. I normally like take the stance that there are no "savage" cultures, but this is something out of the dark ages. Over a virtually unknown film. The US has it's share of religious fundamentalists. But nobody is calling for a holy war because somebody ridiculed Christianity.
We cannot fix the MENA. Our arguments can be well reasoned and sympathetic. We can provide them with aid and financial incentives. But, it doesn't matter if they are still such a religious society. Big Macs and iPods are irrelevant if an omnipotent being is commanding you to wage war against another culture.
this is mogadishu revisited.
don't see how there will not be a military reaction now.
Considering how much the anointed one blames Bush for everything, you'd think he would have learned what not to do. You help overthrow a country and then act surprised when chaos ensues. This is horrible and sad, but a further reminder that we should mind our own business.
And while I instinctively want to call for retaliation or call these people animals, it was the US which bombed from afar, threw the country in chaos and caused a lot of this.
Thanks Obama.
as physically ill as i feel about this murder, and as much as i crave revenge for this, i agree with you. we have to stop going around the world putting pins in rattlesnakes. failing that, we have to expect that it is going to get us bit.
gaddafi was a murdering son of a bitch, but he was a murdering son of a bitch who was able to keep al qaeda and other far worse sons of bitches out of libya for the most part. same with hussein. our whole approach of regime change with no thought as to what happens apres le deluge leads to problems like in egypt, libya, iraq and afghanistan.
we are making the SAME MISTAKE in real time in syria right now. what happens when assad is gone? what kinds of snakes pop up when there is anarchy there? how many more americans will be dragged out and barbarously murdered then?
Time to start rooting for Assad.
Imagine being fucked with like this by your whole social network over an extended period of time, and you'll understand the following statement: "I'm glad Romeny is losing. Not because I love Obama, but because every GOP person I know is incredibly depressed. Attn GOP: you're not the only one who suffered, and now you know how it feels to be kicked while you're down. But I'm not here to make nice: fuck yourselves, then kill yourselves and rot in hell for all I care. Thanks."
Seeing the images of them dragging his body through the streets is sending me into an enraged frenzy.
--Bomb Libya until nothing is left but a barren moonscape --Stick a giant hose into the ground to suck out any natural resources and send them back to America
Religion poisons everything.
yeah man, Daniel Plainview style... DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN !!!
Shocking... All it took was a photo (as gruesome as it is) of one dead American to get you to advocate genocide and an imperial project. I suppose one doesn't need religion to end up with support for such crimes (as an atheist it saddens me to say this).
That's all it took to rid you of your humanity. These guys have been fighting a civil war for over a year and have seen American led NATO bombs rip through their country and communities. Some of the rebels in Libya had witnessed America's project in Iraq first hand.
I understand your emotions and the rage, and it probably isn't my place to ask you to consider the situation dispassionately at the moment. I just hope it doesn't turn you into your perceived enemy.
War poisons everything.
Obviously, I was being hyperbolic. But, considering the insanity of what they did to the Diplomat (and their rationale), it isn't that far fetched of a response if we were to take their route of insane disproportionate retaliations for the wrong reasons.
Watch the trailers to the "movie" and realize how completely insane their actions were. We're talking about some guy's bullshit backyard movie for YouTube, not some major Hollywood production. To kill any man over the film is insane, let alone a man who had nothing to do with its creation. This shows how incredibly insecure these people are about their so-called "beliefs" that don't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
To add: the United States is 100% responsible for the Libyan rebels finding and killing Ghadaffi. It was our UAVs that tracked him and tipped off the rebels to his location. Without us, Ghadaffi likely gets away to live and fight another day.
This is how they thank us?
I'll make a longer post on this thread later, but...
Obama needs to do what Thomas Jefferson did in a earlier time. You can not kill an American Ambassador and get away with it. We need to hunt those guys down, get 'em dead or alive.
President Obama has to address the nation on this doesn't he? Theres just no two ways about it.
He addressed it this morning:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/obama-libya-attacks-chris-stev…
Just, fuck dude. This shit is so insane.
Fuck you Libya.
http://www.local12.com/content/breaking_news/story/Marines-Headed-To-Li…
[quote=happypantsmcgee]Fuck you Libya.
http://www.local12.com/content/breaking_news/story/Marines-Headed-To-Li…]
"The Marines are members of an elite group known as a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, whose role is to respond on short notice to terrorism threats and to reinforce security at U.S. embassies"
Wish I wore my American flag belt to work to honor these finely tuned citizens of the services, as well as those who lost lives or loved ones to these primal bunch of fucking mongrels. We are coming, Libya.
The United States was attacked on sovereign, American soil. An American Ambassador and other diplomatic officials have been assassinated by foreign attackers. America must respond with military force. Not an invasion, but a large aerial campaign must be launched, and the Libyan government must be held liable. Our foreign policy can no longer appease extremists. It's time to fight back through a show of strength. Time to put these animals in their place!
Ambassador's bio http://libya.usembassy.gov/principal.html
" there is a perpetual war among Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia"
And good luck sending in ground troops and bombing anything. After 10 years of war and countless tours overseas our troops are beat to shit.
I'll tell you what. I would vote for Obama if he got on TV and said "sucks this guy died, but when you attack other people sometimes they want to kill you. Cost of doing business."
when we give foreign aid to these countries, we are giving money to governments who carry water for us. sometimes (i.e. pakistan) they don't even do that. but don't delude yourself into thinking that this foreign aid is anything other than support for despots who are the least bad of a horrible set of options. the money is not spent on hershey bars for orphans.
the ambassador has been murdered along with a staffer and two marines. nothing can bring them back now, and i only hope that our special forces are hunting down the goddamned cockroaches who did this.
however, we as a country never fail not to learn a goddamn thing from these teachable moments. there are those who want to knock over syria, or withdraw aid from pakistan, with no thought as to the consequences. the kinds of monsters that will replace the syrian and pakistani regimes are exactly the kinds you are seeing in the streets of benghazi today.
just a year and a half ago we were providing arms and air support to exactly the same mobs who murdered our ambassador. time to reflect.
I read that some Libyans were trying to take the body to a hospital. Those pictures are disturbing but might not be as bad as you would think at first glance if this was the case.
They actually do look a bit like that.
...............................................................................the jews did this.
i'm not saying that at all. he could be a swede or a cuban expat and i would say that same thing.
We should start supporting Assad right now. Time to start sending weapons to the Syrian regime. If Assad falls, we will another 7-th century-cave dwelling-barbaric-islamic state in the region.
Back to the actual, non "omg antisemtism omg" serious question: Mossad is very sophisticated, if I was a defense analyst, I'd flag it as a potential op. Anyone else see this? Or is this just human stupidity at its finest?
actually you might be on to something... though i'm NOT necessarily saying it was Israel.
look, i know we're all super-pissed. let's take a deep breath, calm down, and think this over. in all likelihood this was an act of savagery by an angry mob of extremists, but it would be foolish not to at least consider that some other entity... (maybe Iran or Israel or Gadaffi loyalists, who knows) had something to do with this. who would gain from reduced American support/presence in the new Libyan regime?
http://www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=5256
we have the name of the leader of Ansar Al-Sharia, the group thought reponsible for the attack.
time to get your affairs in order, motherfucker. justice will find you soon.
The killing of a diplomat is always wrong but I must ask - why is THIS killing such an atrocity and the tens of thousands killed by NATO bombs as well as US soldiers posing with dead militants in Iraq / Afghanistan is not?
Why not? One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter etc. A human life is a human life no matter what nationality they are. I am not for one second saything there is nothing wrong with his death, quite the opposite. I am just asking the question as to why when (and this applies to ALL Western countries) a diplomat / soldier / journalist etc. dies it is a tragedy but when someone on the 'other side' dies, it is collateral.
Look at it from the other point of view. Say Russia came and carpet bombed the entire United States and then 20 rednecks went and burned down a Russian embassy, killing a Russian diplomat, how would that go down?
Interesting observation, reminds me of that Joker line in The Dark Knight:
"You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!"
Interesting how accurate that is - people are losing their minds on this thread.
50 marines being deployed to Libya to "restore order" What a fucking joke. Erase that country, don't send in 50 guys to lose their lives in an unstable area.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/us-marines-being-deployed-to-l…
the way we respond to this distinguishes us from our enemies. when polish partisans killed heydrich, the nazis went on a murder orgy across the polish countryside. when black september murdered israeli athletes, the mossad went around and slit all the terrorists' throats like pigs; they didn't go on a wild indiscriminate slaughter of people who had nothing to do with it.
apparently one of the libyan doctors in the area tried for 90 minutes to resuscitate ambassador stevens. and the pictures are consistent with locals trying to bring the ambassador to a hospital rather than dragging his body through the streets as a war trophy like in somalia. when we calm down i hope we will behave more like israel and not nazi germany.
....ew
my solution: let's send in a team to find the perpetrators and kill them. simple as that.
Anyone who responds to this and thinks "the guy should not have made the movie" is out of their mind. I don't give a fuck if the movie ends with a gay Islamic orgy, it's not appropriate to react to it by killing or doing anything violent whatsoever.
We can't cowtow to religious bigots and zealots. Ever.
my point is simpler than people are making it out to be. if he was an actual american who swore allegiance to america and only america, we fight to the last man to protect his right to make whatever movie he wants. he can turn mohammad into a raging queer who takes it up the ass every night for all i care.
but bacile is a foreigner camping out in california, making his fortune under our protection, while having the ingratitude to declare his allegiance to a foreign country. and now 5 americans have died in the whirlwind he has sown. that rubs me very much the wrong way.
interesting... Libyan official claims that Gaddafi loyalists were to blame for this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-libya-usa-attack-loyalists…
i'm not buying it.
Side note - can Ron Paul still win the Republican primary?
According to CNN, the protests might have been used as a diversion for a planned attack.
^ yes i am sure that they have plenty of reasons outside of a stupid film. i don't want to distract too much from that. perhaps this is just bringing out of side-anger against people who use america for its wealth and safety but declare allegiance to a foreign country. their activities are harmless generally, but when they start doing things that affect our foreign policy landscape, it irritates me. bacile is not responsible for these murders. the mob is. i know that. that is all.
Got to bring back my Man Gaddhafi from the dead.
I wonder what the Libyan government (or whomever is nominally in charge of the country) has said about these attacks/murders.
The nominal leader of Libya apologized to America live on Aljazeera hours after it happened.
Glad to see a few bright Americans on these forums. Like 1%?
You people have no clue what you're talking about.
You have seen a few photos of a dead man, and are threfore calling for an attack, killing, missions etc.
Have you already forgot pictures of that poor Libyan people holding their dead children in their arms, rivers of blood around them? Do you actually think that you are helping anyone!? I cant believe this s*it..
For Christs sake, you dropped cassete bombs on the hospital for little children in my country! Killed 400 children +xyz men and women during the 6 months alone! Of course, none of you gives a phuck about that... Did you help us end the civil war? -No, only made it worse. Did you help anyone spread the democracy? -No, quite the opposite - now we are trying to get rid of nacionalists. But at least you did not build your military bases here, and did not get monopoly over natural resources. And I've spent my childhood having little to nothing because of that.
Calling someone barbarians or savages?! Those Libyan people were highly educated and indipendable guys with free healthcare and help for the poor. Dont tell me that you believe in what you read on the news papers? Photos from the "protests in Libya", but "mistakenly (lol)" your news post 5 years old pictures from the protests in India. Of course, none of you even know what Libyan flag looks like... "green something"?
Noble Americans, ruthlessly killed OBL - what democracy is that? Why no prison? And you people were celebrating that event on the streets like pagans.
Btw, for any of you who has ever been in the US Embassy - I live next to one. In each one you have at least 4 underground floors and enough resources to survive there for months. It is unbreakable and has escape routes. That poor ambassador was dinged by his own country - probably a justification for a new war.
Let me tell you something - person that hides in that embassy undergrownd can't die.
An ambassador taken to the street full of angry mob?
Do your own math. It doesnt have to be what I've said above. But the chances are pretty high.
Same thing happened in my country (europe) - your embassy was burned to the ground. Nobody was hurt and everyone was perfectly safe. Most of the people were evacuated long before the event, and some were underground until our police secured the building. Only person that died was our huligan kid, who jumped inside stupidly and ended up being burned alive.
lol, no offense - but you dont know sh*t about life wannabe baller...tough guy behind his PC..
Open your ignorant mind, come to see the harsh reality. Visit some of the countries that you've bombed. Ask your own soldiers - not the politicians.
Yeah, because OBL always gave America a fair shake.
Here's the official presser from the US Embassy in Egypt yesterday:
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html
I'd prefer "get off our property or we're sending the Marine guards and DSS agents after your ass" but apparently we have to be nice to douchebags who try to blow shit up over a YouTube video.
i am human and i feel as much anger as any other american when i see my ambassador murdered. but i hope everyone here saying "let's bomb them into the stone age" remembers how they felt on 9/11.
we bombed afghanistan into the stone age. we even went into iraq, with 2/3 of the american people in a NYT poll prior to march 2003 believing that saddam actually had something to do with 9/11.
where the fuck are we now? stuck to one tar baby in central asia and another one in the heart of the arab world. and now with yemen, syria, egypt, tunisia -- we are getting a perfect preview of exactly what awaits us once we exit iraq and afghanistan AS WE MUST ONE DAY. and when that day comes it is going to be fucking benghazi x10000000.
not all problems have military solutions. i am not saying that using force is never a solution, but it is rarely the only solution. you're angry. everyone gets it. calling them savages and calling for them to be wiped off the map might feel good but it is hardly original, and hardly useful. just the opposite if this temporary surge of emotion gives cynical parties the opening to stampede us into another goatfuck.
Afghanistan was in the stone age before we went in.
lol... they had everything most importantly, they had a potential to multiply their living standard 40x
that's a good one. haven't heard that one before.
it's just that kind of thinking -- underestimating your enemy -- that got the soviets their asses handed to them and us stuck there 11 years later, with no control of the country outside of our moonbase in kabul and going nowhere fast.
it costs us $1MM a man a year to keep a soldier in afghanistan. it takes them just a couple of kalashnikovs and a fleet of pickup trucks to keep us spending and bleeding.
if these guys are cavemen they are some of the most cunning, diabolically brilliant cavemen i've ever seen.
I'm going to restrain myself here because if I expressed my honest views on these people and Islam in general, I would probably get banned.
Simply put, this is disgusting. These people have so little fear of the U.S. that they chose to commit these acts on September 11th. The Obama administration's response has been quite disturbing as well, reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's tepid actions towards Iran during the hostage crisis. I'm not going to go so far as to say that we should send in armed U.S. soldiers into Libya, but there definitely needs to be dire consequences for these people. If Obama does not get this right, it could be his "October Surprise" moment, tilting the election to Romney.
Where'd all these people come from lately?
What i find even more amazing than the stupidity of those retarded terrorists are the kind of arrogance and american imperialist attitude you can find everywhere, including in those boards.
America is crying over the 11th of september, fine.
God since they went to the middle east in Iraq/Afghanistan it's the 11th of september every single day of the year in those regions.
the US puts entire countries into chaos and havoc, has a brutal and completely selfish foreign policy, as if they were supposed to rule the world by virtue of fact.
Dozens of people are dying everywhere everyday as a direct or indirect consequence of American non-sense. Sorry but this fucking ambassador's worth is no more than that of the thousands of dead people in the middle east.
The number and violence of USA atrocities is still unheard of trough history, remember hiroshima ? stop giving lessons to the world and go back to pre-WW non intervention policy, and nobody will hate america.
Us foreign policy is always so short-termist and selfish that it backfires. Remember that bin laden is a US creation.
everyone should see material like this:
Let me simplify this for you: 1. Country / terrorists fuck with the US 2. The US kicks the shit out of them 3. Said countries / terrorists denounce the US for being violent
There are many shady and unsavory things about our foreign policy, but it's not like we have the option to just do business with nice people. And yeah, sometimes we fucking kill people, that's how we roll. There's also chaos all over the place and people killing each other, and there's simply nothing we can do about it. The US is not perfect and of course there are mistakes, but to say that there is untold carnage simply because of us is very dishonest.
Take off your ideological filters and look to see WHAT IS instead of WHAT YOU WANT TO BE. Start your reasoning from there, and don't accept someone else's interpretation. C'mon, there's more information than ever before in history on the interwebz, start learning and think for yourself.
Let me give you another quick summary :
1- I am mohammed, a random guy that couldn't care less about the USA, LIKE MOST PEOPLE ON THIS FUCKING PLANET 2- Shit, bombs all over the place 3- Shit, my son is dead or my house is burning, or economy is destroyed so i see no future for my family. 4- What the hell is happening ? 5- Apparently, the "americans" (where is america by the way ?) are attacking my country because some obnoxious retard called bin laden that i've never heard of decided to send planes in a random building somewhere in the planet. 6- Screw those americans whoever they are, why me ?
That's what actually happened for hundreds of people.
Now let's talk about en even worse situation : Iraq. Random non-sense about mass-destruction weapons "threathening the american security". LOL ?
So now you should update the 1st point of your story : 1. Country looks like it might possibly maybe in another world burried in the sand of times fuck with the US, but we have no proof, or actually know this is wrong but who cares ? 2. The US kicks the shit out of them 3. Said countries / terrorists denounce the US for being violent
You call this shit "mistakes" I wonder what you would think if another country, or let's say aliens because no country has the military ability did same kind of things to the US. Just a "mistake" by the aliens right ?
So many stupid points in this reply it is amazing. Are you unaware that bombing Hiroshima was a direct result of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor? The US bombing Japan is what led to Japan being one of the most peaceful countries on Earth today.
So i guess the USA should just bomb every other country to make the world a better place.
Fucking retard.
do you realize that pearl harbor was a direct result of a US/UK/Netherlands oil/gas/tin/rubber embargo? that the US was sending non-uniformed american pilots to fight against japan in the chinese air force? that the US Navy was sending gunboats and materiel into the china theatre of war, and japan actually apologized to US when she accidentally sank one of them thinking it was chinese? that the US has frozen japanese assets in the US months before pearl? that the US was actively abetting both nationalist and communist chinese war efforts (americans helping out a party in a civil war which backstabs us later...hmmm...sounds familiar)? did you read ambassador joseph grew's memo to FDR to maximally provoke japan into firing the first shot, as she was a "hara kiri" nation?
please, we are supposed to be professionals in finance and consulting. we should not use historical reasoning stuck at a middle school level.
This represents a gross violation of American sovereignty, the response should be swift and brutal.
"USA has a completely self-interested foreign policy"
Can someone point me to a country that doesn't have a selfish foreign policy?
there are none. however, we are unique in that we have a polity that is presently convinced that we do what we do to spread democracy and freedom everywhere. even the modern europeans laugh at their own old imperial propaganda about bringing telegraphs and the salvation of christ to ignorant, benighted africans.
So all those fat tories who sing the praises of the British Empire and how they brought railroads and the English language to the savages are figments of my imagination?
Oh c'mon Fermion (don't we know each other?)
The US is simply doing what everyone in this position would have done. You don't rise to number one and remain there without a good measure of ruthlessness and cynicism. I don't think the US policies are angelic, neither do I think they are demonic. If not the US, some other nation with a different morality would have done the same. God forbid it be an islamic nation.
The funny thing is, this shit happens to the US all the time and we are just suppose to sit back and take it otherwise we are blood-thirsty hate mongers.
I would love to see the world's reaction and Russia's retaliation to some terrorist fuck-heads flying a hijacked plain into St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Guarantee you no one would be condemning Russia for the promised ass kickings and worldwide man hunt they would bring on the organization responsible.
Here you guys go:
http://imgur.com/a/tlCyI
Everyone should take a couple deep breaths.
Other nations HAVE done far worse when they were powerful. France , for all her yapping , behaved abysmally when she had power. As did England. As did Italy under the Roman empire As especially , did the Arabs
Persia. Assyria. Egypt. Even (for a really short time in a tiny area) Israel. All nasty, nasty genocidal people
interesting point. are we to say, for instance, that leopold's crimes in the congo are somehow mitigated because he wasn't as bad as tamerlane? yes, our civilized belgian monarch did hack off many childrens' hands to punish parents for not meeting their gold panning quotas, but by god, at least he didn't build towers made of human skulls.
You know this post is agriculture. Farming ;)
This shouldn't be a country vs country argument.
US is has a lot of idiots. US idiots bomb child hospitals.
Lybia has a lot of idiots. Lybia idiots burn embassies down.
Every country has a lot of idiots - those idiots do agressive and idiotic things.
The majority of people in US, Lybia, or wherever isn't directly responsible for those acts of idiocy and is just trying to live their lives. There's no point in people hating each other because they were randomly born somewhere else.
As a side note, I don't buy the movie reasoning as well. Half the teens in the world made fun of the religion on Facebook - South Park is making fun of all religions for 15 years or so, and nobody breaks a sweat.
How many views that "movie" had before the attack? Like 12 I guess... The only winner here (in some way) is the movie producer. Well, not even that. Now everyone knows how much he sucks at filmmaking
Playa!
See I don't get religion, this whole idea of idiotic people running around killing people in the name of an unseen god and another idiot who died almost 2000 years ago. If your god is so strong and awesome, damn it, let him do his own killing.
I'm sorry, I don't agree that insulting mohammed is an abomination, he's dead, his flesh is rotted, his teeth have fallen out.
It's the ignorance that gets to me, the lazy minded people without independent thought that are so easily herded into working against their own interests.
Religion • Dates back to band-level societies • Solves a coordination problem of group action, esp. for warfare (which was common) • Coordinated societies that permit sustained group action have a significant advantage over other groups • Reinforced lineage with worship of dead ancestors • Reinforced private property with burial grounds • Provides legitimacy of ruler
The whole insulting the prophet thing is bs, it was a planned attack:
http://www.local12.com/mostpopular/story/Sources-Says-Death-of-U-S-Amba…
I'm sick of America being branded as the bad guy in these scenarios. If the Arab League, and MENA had it's shit together then they could take leadership in their region, mediate tensions, and ensure stability. They failed to take charge in Libya, and are failing in Syria.
The world begged America to get involved in Libya, which we did reluctantly, in the form of air strikes and running the NATO air center in Italy, because nobody else has the capability to run an operation of this scale. (reality)
What's the aftermath? We are told we are self-interested, meddling fools, who killed civilians and threw a country into chaos. If you are an American you should be outraged and quit all the compassionate bullshit. The world is a battle space, full of people and groups who want to wipe you out because of who you are and what you believe in. You are taking the wrong stand if you think they have any justification for that action, what-so-ever.
At this point I think we should stop investing our blood and treasure, no more nation building. If someone wants to fuck with us, hit them with airstrikes, SF, and pull back out.
Oh and animalz, go hang out with the rest of the mouth breathers on a Yugoslavian message board or where-ever the fuck you're from.
Whoever this animalz guy is, is a nutjob clown and I have no idea what he's doing on WSO to begin with. But anyway, my belief is that this was a horrendous act committed by a group of extremists, end of story. And this thread is getting out of control.
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