Reuters: US ambassador to Libya dead

[Razgovory]

Looks like the Euros are frothy this morning.  You'd think it was their ambassador that got killed.

[Ed Anger]

President Barack Obama says the U.S. would not consider Egypt an ally, ''but we don't consider them an enemy.''

Morsi just got a Smithfield ham on the desk.

O:  Now go further. Call on congress to cut their aid.

[garbon]

What "this" is is not a rent-a-mob showing up to protest US imperialism but rather the novel (well since 1979) activity of trying to storm the embassy and killing it's inhabitants.

Yeah that's the thought I had this morning. Shame.

Fuck you I don't want free speech hating scum like you agreeing with me.

I think he is more of a retard than scum. Like Jacob.

It's more like unless we actually try to convince our governments to do something about their violent reactions, rallying around juvenile creations as a free speech issue - posting furiously online and writing articles is rather silly.  After all, we already know the established routine - some bozo creates some work that muslims deem offensive, muslims somewhere get violent.  (I'm calling said things juvenile as none of the works discussed in this thread are particularly interesting but really just rather shitty.)

That isn't to justify the violent muslim reaction or suggest that people should be restricted from creating juvenile works. But to act as though there isn't a cause and effect of juvenile work => crazy muslims is nonsensical. I'm not saying the author of the juvenile work is responsible for the violence but merely remind you of a clear pattern of events.

And I guess I wonder - if we aren't actually taking steps to curb such violent muslim reactions, I wonder if we as individuals should take a pause to think when we go about creating works that trigger the established pattern.  I don't think being a homosexual is a good comparison as that's just myself living my daily life whereas I don't think anyone's life really has to consist of making shitty art (or that they'd be unhappy if they couldn't).

Saying that one should consider when to exercise free speech isn't saying that it should be thrown out - anymore than the suggestion that one should probably avoid shouting out the n-word when walking around a majority black neighborhood.

[Valmy]

Profits not Prophets!

[Solmyr]

Profits not Prophets!

[Ed Anger]

Kevin Smith sucks.

[Viking]

Profits not Prophets!

Arabic doesn't really transliterate to latin lettering. Vowels are pretty arbitrary, and often not included and for consonants hard/soft distinctions often disappear (f/b, p/b, s/z, k/g etc.). Often these signs are often transliterations of mipronounciations in arabic of english words. So you'll often end up with signs like

Dawon Dawon USA (down down USA)
Death to the Juice (death to the jews)

etc.

[Ed Anger]

2 destroyers with Tomahawks off the Libyan coast? MY MURDER BONER IS OUT OF CONTROL.

[FunkMonk]

I was hoping for actual gunboats from the 1910s, not guided missile destroyers.

[CountDeMoney]

Looks like the Euros are frothy this morning.  You'd think it was their ambassador that got killed. Jews were involved.

[Viking]

I was hoping for actual gunboats from the 1910s, not guided missile destroyers.

Gunboats were there to threaten the government, not the rebels.

[FunkMonk]

I was hoping for actual gunboats from the 1910s, not guided missile destroyers.

Gunboats were there to threaten the government, not the rebels.

[CountDeMoney]

I was hoping for actual gunboats from the 1910s, not guided missile destroyers.

Meh, the Tomahawks will be able to zero in on drone targeted facilities much, much better, insha'allah.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Kevin Smith sucks.

You continue to find new ways to sicken me.

[Malthus]

Mittens' and his campaign's entire behavior, from the initial release to his statement today, simply shows how much of a foreign policy noob he really is. 

It's consistent with his entire foreign policy approach this entire campaign season:  nothing but bluster and blunders, all from trying too hard.

Making inflammatory statements as well as holding an even more inflammatory press conference before the POTUS addresses the issue isn't just bad politics, it's simply poor form.

You nailed it.

Even in this partisan age, other Republicans found this bad form.