http://www.thetakeaway.org/2012/sep/13/white-house-says-attack-libya-may-have-been-planned/

My comment is there.

I think there's a lot of confusion about this event but the US Ambassador Chris Stevens was not even inside the embassy, he was at a nearby location and only insiders could have known that he was there, according to what I heard on the news. How could regular citizens have gotten hold of that information? It smells fishy.

I think there's a whole load that is not being told to the reporting journalists.

Its a very sad truth but majority of white americans think that they're better than the rest of the world because of either their color or social class. This is why America is divided among itself and is failing to get better. The maker of this film should be charged and held accountable for the deaths of these people. Better yet we should deport him over to the middle east and let him deal with the ones he offended. Why does this country allow things like this to go on. Freedom of speech is one thing but to offend an entire culture and religon? He deserves the death the embassadors suffered.

Unspeakable

Arabs just can't do democracy. Democracy takes tolerence and respect.
To quote from the movie "The American President",
"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms."
The arab culture cannot grasp this concept and so cannot do democracy.
It is sad but it is true.
Their allegience is to their clan and to their view of their god, but not to respect and tolerence.

Now we can see why the Church was asked by the emperor to organize what we now call the Crusades against the Muslims, to defend Europe. And it was a close fight. In the early 1500s the Ottoman Turks aimed at taking Italy, and the prize of Rome. But they decided to stop by Malta to teach the Knights a lesson first. Outnumbered 10 to 1, the knights killed the Turkish leader and held them off until they finally got Spanish support months later, and the Turks retreated, and never got to Italy.

Looks like a set-up. Investigators are not finding the filmmaker where he was said to be from.

I did not know J Christopher Stevens. i want to comment that the State Department made a mistake in sending this dedicated Foreign Service man to volatile Libya. What purpose did the State Department have in making this decision?

"Regret"
"A flash of furious anger"
Industrial strength spin, denial and hypocrisy at work here.

Smart power at work.

Now back to mocking Mormons and the Tea Party.

Islam is not a cancer but ignorance surely is -- with education being the only cure. Many Islamists have been deprived of their basic freedoms for so long they actually do not know or understand what they are.
Freedom of religion forbids the government from interfering with our religious beliefs. Freedom of speech forbids the government from interfering with our expression of any beliefs -- even those that are clearly wrong, offensive, against the government or against the prevalent religion.
If one of us thus decides to make an offensive film against another's religion, he has the freedom to do so. And since the government cannot stop him, it also cannot be blamed for the offending film. This point must sound strange to those whose entire lives have been controlled by their government or their religion. However, tolerating the offensive conduct of others is the cornerstone of all freedom.
To be sure, countries that only recently have espoused democracy have much work ahead of them. First and foremost they need to educate the masses on the workings of individual freedoms. The media should join in this important task because democracy depends on a free media.
Let the blood of our good Ambassador then write the first chapter of the Arab textbook for freedom. And let that chapter again begin with the preamble “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.”