(Updated) Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy

Victor Davis Hanson  "The attacks on the US embassy yesterday in Cairo and the storming of the American consulate in Libya, where the US ambassador was murdered along with three staff members — and the initial official American reaction to the mayhem — are all reprehensible, each in their own way. Let us sort out this terrible chain of events."
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"The attacks in Egypt come a little over three years after the embarrassing Obama Cairo speech, in which the president created an entire mythology about the history of Islam, in vain hopes of appeasing his Egyptian hosts. The violence also follows ongoing comical efforts of the administration to assure us that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is not an extremist Islamic organization bent on turning Egypt into a theocratic state. And the attacks are simultaneous with President Obama’s ongoing and crude efforts to embarrass Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu."

Remember this cartoon from an earlier incident?

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"At some point, someone in the administration is going to fathom that the more one seeks to appease radical Islam, the more the latter despises the appeaser."
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