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#27 Sep 12 2012 at 5:07 PM Rating: Decent
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And undo everything we've accomplished in the Arab Spring?


I'm leaning towards assuming this is sarcastic, but in case it isn't: Yes, and ruin the Arab spring, complete with installing new genocidal dictators so long as their OUR genocidal dictators. While spreading democracy is theoretically an aim of US foreign policy, not one really takes that seriously. Certainly no one at Foggy Bottom or Langley.
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#28 Sep 12 2012 at 5:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sounds like the plot of the next Bourne movie.
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#29 Sep 12 2012 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:

And undo everything we've accomplished in the Arab Spring?


I'm leaning towards assuming this is sarcastic, but in case it isn't: Yes, and ruin the Arab spring, complete with installing new genocidal dictators so long as their OUR genocidal dictators. While spreading democracy is theoretically an aim of US foreign policy, not one really takes that seriously. Certainly no one at Foggy Bottom or Langley.

Geez, it's like you've never seen me make a snarky comment before.
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Exactly right. The Obama Doctrine: We view terrorism as a police action. Did I mention that our police officers are flying killer robots?

Reports that the attack on the embassy was a planned assault and not any spontaneous action due to the film (although it gave nice cover). US launching drone flights over northeastern Libya. Who'd have guessed, huh?


I guess at least, if it wasn't random fanatics, it makes it easier to determine who to send the flying killer robots after.
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#31 Sep 12 2012 at 9:37 PM Rating: Default
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RIP Sean AKA Vile Rat, you will be missed. If it wasn't for your contribution to the EVE community I wouldn't have a bunch of scrubby Goons to shoot at. Thoughts and prayers with your family.

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#32 Sep 12 2012 at 9:42 PM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:
Exactly right. The Obama Doctrine: We view terrorism as a police action. Did I mention that our police officers are flying killer robots?

Reports that the attack on the embassy was a planned assault and not any spontaneous action due to the film (although it gave nice cover). US launching drone flights over northeastern Libya. Who'd have guessed, huh?

I guess at least, if it wasn't random fanatics, it makes it easier to determine who to send the flying killer robots after.

I read it was a group of al Quaeda, reacting to the killing of some dude over the summer, and that some of the actual protesters turned on the others and tried to save the embassy staff.

I'm sure the flying killer robots have appropriate co-ordinates.
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Smasharoo wrote:

And undo everything we've accomplished in the Arab Spring?


I'm leaning towards assuming this is sarcastic, but in case it isn't: Yes, and ruin the Arab spring, complete with installing new genocidal dictators so long as their OUR genocidal dictators. While spreading democracy is theoretically a
n aim of US foreign policy, not one really takes that seriously. Certainly no one at Foggy Bottom or Langley.


Just think years ago you thought like joph. Amazing how inevitably time and pressure changes everything.

You... really don't understand nuance, do you?
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#37 Sep 13 2012 at 7:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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Here's a breakdown of Apologygate!! and why Romney got it wrong. (FWIW, the writer is a moderate conservative.)

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For the next several hours, the embassy used its Twitter feed to answer questions and objections. “We condemn this effort [by] misguided in[div]iduals to abuse universal right of free speech,” the embassy told a Muslim inquirer. Minutes later, it affirmed, “Freedom of speech is a universal human right, but that will not stop us from condemning misguided, uninformed actions.” When a Christian Tea Party activist asked, “Why are you condemning the 1st amendment rights of US Citizens?” the embassy replied that “we're not condemning rights, we're criticizing specific statements, a right guaranteed by freedom of expression.”

By Tuesday afternoon, protesters had scaled a wall at the compound. The chairman of Maryland Young Republicans, a Christian, accused the embassy staff of ignoring the incursion: “Am I correct that @usembassycairo apologized TO people who invaded our sovereign embassy and tore down our flag?” The embassy shot back: “we did not apologize to anyone because we did nothing.” To other critics, the embassy explained, “Of course we condemn breaches of our compound, we're the ones actually living through this.” It added: “Sorry, but neither breaches of our compound or angry messages will dissuade us from defending freedom of speech AND criticizing bigotry.” An hour later, the embassy concluded: “This morning's condemnation (issued before protest began) still stands. As does our condemnation of unjustified breach of the Embassy.”
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Three hours after the embassy finished these comments, the U.S. confirmed a lethal attack on its consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Within half an hour, Romney launched a political assault on the Cairo embassy’s statements: "It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
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Romney’s description of the embassy’s initial statement—“sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt, instead of condemning their actions”—was blatantly false. When the embassy issued its morning statement, no one had breached the wall. After the breach, when the embassy tweeted that its initial statement “still stands,” it added in the same breath: “As does our condemnation of unjustified breach of the Embassy.”



Also, it's a good thing this whole statement-issuing outrage fest is so easy to digest, wouldn't want anyone to have to contemplate the complex issue of the attacks themselves or of muslim sentiment in the region.

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Also, it's a good thing this whole statement-issuing outrage fest is so easy to digest, wouldn't want anyone to have to contemplate the complex issue of the attacks themselves or of muslim sentiment in the region.

I specifically kept my Romney remarks in the other thread to keep them separate from the broader issue here. But now you've muddied the waters Smiley: mad
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#39 Sep 13 2012 at 8:35 AM Rating: Good
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I specifically kept my Romney remarks in the other thread to keep them separate from the broader issue here. But now you've muddied the waters Smiley: mad

PM an admin to move my post. While you're at it, we need a post-convention election round-up thread. And you might as well start placeholder threads for VP and P debates.

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#42 Sep 13 2012 at 10:24 AM Rating: Good
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How bout in the middle gbaji's longer posts? That way we can break up the walls of text a little.
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#44 Sep 13 2012 at 10:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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How bout in the middle gbaji's longer posts? That way we can break up the walls of text a little.


More meaningless gibberish after the jump! Who would sponsor it, though? I mean there are only so many sex crime defense attorneys and cash for gold companies.
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CNN wrote:
As an anti-Islam video continued to spawn protests and violence around the region, Libya's prime minister said Thursday at least one person had been arrested -- and others were in authorities' sights -- tied to the killings of a U.S. ambassador and three others this week.

"This is not acceptable to the Libyan people; this is not acceptable to our values," Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur told CNN, referring to Tuesday's deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. "We are taking this very, very seriously."

The one suspect arrested and "three or four" being actively pursued are Libyans, Abushagur said, adding there are "suspicions that these people belong to some extremist group, but ... that is something we don't know."
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I am sad a friend of mine was killed. A man named Sean Smith, his life taken in Benghazi. I met Sean in an internet spaceship game, EVE online. Most of the time we spent shooting each other and our friends. Its sad that hate can ruin lives in such a way, it is crazy that hate can show one how small the world truly is.

I have never met him, and likely never would have, outside of the universe of New Eden that is. It is a sad day for me and my EVE friends, it is even sadder I am sure for his family and friends. The community of EVE is either awe struck or grief struck, the universe has held its vigil, Cyno's have dotted the star map from north to south, player owned stations have paid homage to their fellow pilot Vile Rat.

I don't know if I am truly sad sad, I have never experienced death in my life, this is the closest thing to a personal loss that I have had, and it is very disheartening. I remember talking about diplomatic stuff with him when he was in Baghdad, and he had to leave all of the sudden. In the middle of a 20 man diplomatic meeting he left because there were explosions and gunfire in his vicinity, a while later he returned and told us it was just us shooting at an enemy convoy.

Apparently his EVE community was the last to hear his voice, not his wife, or kids, but his friends in internet space ship games, a similar story but one he did not return from. Crazy how small the world is, crazy that I feel sad for a person I have never met, for a person who, had I never played EVE would be another statistic in an ongoing war against hate.

Sorry for bumming out the thread, but I just need to make words.

RIP Vile Rat. NBSI or BSI it doesn't matter, fly safe mate o7
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#49 Sep 14 2012 at 6:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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Turns out the obama administration knew about the attack a week in advance and did nothing

They can see the future???!! Holy ****, no wonder they're so relaxed about the election.
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Double posts are doubly annoying.

Edited, Sep 14th 2012 8:32am by Smasharoo
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Amy Davidson voiced what should be the concern of every responsible Republican or undecided independent voter:

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Romney has managed, in a couple of short vignettes, to showcase so many of the qualities that make people doubt him: the eager opportunism; the indifference to the truth; a certain arrogance; his clumsiness and near-incompetence as a diplomat; the sense that he doesn’t understand what it means for a person to be in hard circumstances, or even danger. The stakes here though, unlike with Bain, are not just people who are losing their pensions—though that is bad enough—but wars that could start, governments that could fall. What compass would he have if he had to manage a major crisis?

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