I don’t know, Egypt is going to hell in a hand-basket fast but Libya actually seems to be looking better now… after the attack when it was being claimed that “most Libyans were repulsed by the attack” my immediate response was “yeah right… if they’re really so ‘repulsed’ they would go out into the streets and actually do something to start stopping these nut-jobs, and that will never happen.” Surely enough, though, the next day there were giant demonstrations in the streets of Benghazi with people waving American flags and holding up signs condemning the attack, and now there are mobs going out and routing the Islamists’ headquarters… I actually do genuinely think that most Libyans were against the attack and that it was a pre-planned al Qaeda operation that was done in Libya to try to derail the legitimately promising-looking (and pro-Western) democracy movement. Why O’[too busy campaigning to listen to security briefings] wasn’t able to stop it is a different question entirely.

Not to be one to foment conspiracy theories, I say follow the trail of intelligence back to it’s origin. If it *was* a coordinated assault as it appears, the terrorists had to have funding.

Then we may know why going off to a fundraiser was more pressing than the lives of US citizens and our diplomats. If there’s no hard direct evidence, we’ll at least be able to clearly describe Obama as uncaring and hopefully (but not holding my breath) the supporters of this administration’s policies will have little choice but to ‘agree and dis-own’ or ‘follow like lemmings’.

I heard a radio caller or host say the other morning, “Offer the anti-American protesters a free ticket, passport and visa to the US and watch them put down their rocks and head for the nearest airport”! I just had to smile! America and her citizens are *still* the light on a hill. No amount of propaganda can change that unless we buy into their garbage.

You know what really pisses me off? Apparently these bases were still standing and still operational. With Islamists in them. Having lunch. After all this time.

The poverty there and the conspiracy theories that THEY foment are largely why they’re protesting like animals… I was in Egypt a few years ago and they actually seemed like pretty decent people but the amount of poverty was astounding and everywhere we went there were kids in the streets who spent their days begging tourists for money which was pretty alarming… The thing about poverty is that when people are hopeless it generally gives them comfort to try to be able to blame it on someone else, and the amount of conspiracy theories there are insane… “the third world is poor because of Western capitalist bloodsuckers, ‘Zionist bankers’ are sucking the life out of the Muslim world, etc” and the attraction of many of them to Islam is that it’s marketed as “egalitarian.” Fixing the poverty I do think would lead to a tamping down of much of the anti-Western crap, but the problem is that a continuation of the extremist anti-Western sentiment is going scare off Western investors who are key to fixing the poverty… most Egyptians know it full-well which is why most were against the protests despite being just as repulsed by the stupid film as anyone else was, but the Salafists didn’t particularly care and are apparently so hopeless that “watching the world burn” is more preferable to them than maintaining stability to allow for anything potentially constructive to happen for the country…

This is exactly what societies must do when they want to take back their failed state, not from failure, but from the opportunistic strongmen that take it back first. If not for lax immigration enforcement in the US, Mexican citizens might have done the same long ago.