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Foggy Bottom: no more questions about Benghazi, please.

CNN: State Department was warned three days in advance of Benghazi attacks that the security situation was deteriorating fast; did nothing.

WH press secretary Jay “Baghdad Bob” Carney: worldwide protests “not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy…”

CT expert Colonel David Hunt weighs in on State Department’s toothless Benghazi ROE.

Sudan refuses request by U.S. to allow Marines to enter in wake of bloody anti-American uprisings. (Time was, Mr. Obama, that the U.S. Marines went wherever we decided to send them…)

At least 4 casualties in al-Qaeda attack on US-led Sinai peacekeeping mission.

WH distances itself from cringing embassy statement, issues semantically identical statement of its own.

11 Comments

  1. Johann Gutenberg says

    As an isolationist, I feel vindicated. We shouldn’t have “peacekeeping missions” in the Sinai or be sending Marines to the Sudan. (It’s still “the” Sudan in my mind; I remember when it was The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.) I suppose we must have embassies in god-forsaken hellholes like Libya, although I’m not sure why.

    Posted September 15, 2012 at 2:43 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    I agree.

    And maybe the West will learn a lesson here about the fundamental incompatibility of Islam with modern civilization, and the unwisdom of importing it into our homelands.

    And maybe the Moon will fall from the sky.

    Posted September 15, 2012 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
  3. The moon is always falling from the sky, so there’s always hope . . .

    Jeffery Hodges

    * * *

    Posted September 15, 2012 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
  4. Lokilinster says

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153508.html

    Posted September 15, 2012 at 8:11 pm | Permalink
  5. Anyone here know who Lokilinster is and what he is promoting? I am not about to click on a link submitted in a comment without any accompanying annotation by the commenter.

    Posted September 16, 2012 at 3:21 am | Permalink
  6. Dom says

    He typed his name wrong. Most of his links are irrelevant to the discussion. The one above is about tourism in Iran.

    Posted September 16, 2012 at 6:27 am | Permalink
  7. Iran has tourism?

    Posted September 16, 2012 at 11:53 am | Permalink
  8. Malcolm says

    Lokilinkster’s name should be Sir Linksalot, but as far as I can tell the links are safely clickable.

    Posted September 16, 2012 at 1:11 pm | Permalink
  9. Henry,

    A Korean-fluent acquaintance of mine, Scott Fisher, wrote a book titled Axis of Evil World Tour, which chronicles his trips to North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. His tour in North Korea was heavily managed from the get-go; his time in Iraq was mostly spent on a military base; his tour of Iran involved hiring a driver and tearing across hundreds of miles of countryside, visiting people and holy sites. The Iran portion of Scott’s book was easily the most interesting part for me; I was already familiar with the insider’s view of North Korea, and by Scott’s own reckoning, there’s not much that you can learn about Iraq from inside a military base.

    Scott discovers that most of the Iranians he meets really don’t have a problem with the US. At the same time, though, he chafes under the many social and religious restrictions that, taken together, stifle free thought and expression.

    If you can forgive the book’s many typos (it appears to have been edited by a chimpanzee), it’s quite an interesting read.

    Posted September 16, 2012 at 11:07 pm | Permalink
  10. Thanx, Kevin. I’ll get the Kindle edition and have a look.

    Posted September 17, 2012 at 2:12 am | Permalink
  11. Mr. Gutenberg,
    The proper term for what you are is Neutralist, not Isolationist. Think Switzerland, not North Korea.

    From the links listed on the post, a neutralist position is unavoidable to the rational mind.

    Posted September 18, 2012 at 9:46 am | Permalink

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