Xocrates wrote:By whom? Anyone other than the government of some country and it can be dismissed as a small extremist groups.
I haven't heard an exact whom yet. But, it was a three hour gun battle that covered at least three embassy buildings. Ambassador Stevens was killed after his building caught fire from RPG strikes. It wasn't just an angry crowd, it was someone who came to fight.
Xocrates wrote:And has Obama made any major missteps on that front? From what I gathered he codemned the attacks, paid his respects to the dead, and tried to distance the US government from the movie, which is exactly what he was supposed to do. And given that the government of Lybia itself condemned the attacks there does not appear to be any reasons to place it on poor foreign policy and international relations.
That depends on who you ask, many are saying that yes, he has made major missteps.
There's some controversy about how the video was handled: whether it should have been condemned at all and if so, was the condemnation equally leveled at the protestors? As for foreign policy, foreign policy is about more than just what governments due. Many feel that the protests are a result of his foreign policy choices over the last several years, and his response to such are foreign policy choices.
It's a much broader issue then what's happened this week, and what governments do. It's issues that cover years, and deal with not just governments, but how American policy is projected to the world.
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Basically: we were successfully attacked on Sept 11th, again, and an ambassador was killed. With Obama only attending less than 40% of his security briefings, and keeping up his campaign schedule, people aren't happy.