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Nope. Wont happen. People generally have the perception that the Middle East always experiences violent outbursts of this nature...which isn't inaccurate but none in the recent past where an ambassador died.
Either way, the feigned outrage over this is merely a way to try to politicize it. None of you would bat an eyelash if this happened on a conservatives watch, so stop pretending to be so outraged. You'll all stop caring November 7th.
The emails asking for help and the real time video of the attack (not a lame video made by some jerk here) will speak for themselves. The WH is in deep on this and getting deeper by the day.
You underestimate the American people if you think we care nothing for our people being slaughtered in other countries while this administration slept.
It would be more convincing if you all stopped parading around these deaths as being the source of your feigned outrage.
I really should have posted on Monday night right after the debate because I remember thinking "well that debate was clearly a loss for Romney, wait for right wingers to go on full on assault on Libya and pretend to care!"
The UMd. database lists 64 attacks on American diplomatic targets during the George W. Bush administration, including car bombs at the US embassy in Yemen and armed attackers assaulting a US consulate in Saudi Arabia.
It's currently unclear to what degree mismanagement, security lapses, or intelligence failures meant the United States failed to anticipate the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. But no matter which party is in office, no matter who is president, terrorism and violence are always going to be a potential risk for foreign-service officers serving in troubled areas. The important thing, Chamberlain says, is to stay engaged.
"Every ambassador and [foreign-service officer] understands the risks we take in being abroad," Chamberlin says. "I don't know any ambassador who hides in his embassy. Getting out with the public and speaking is our job, it's why we're there. If you don't want to do that you shouldn't go."
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