[quote=ucodegen][quote=CA renter]Yes, I understand that; however, embassies are often the targets of attacks because they are involved in issues that the citizens of that country feel are very much against their best interests.
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What I’d really like to know (and what is really being covered up) is what, specifically, our “diplomats” in Libya were doing over the past ~18-24 months.[/quote]Considering that the people in the neighborhood were the ones that extracted the injured from the Embassy and brought them to the hospital, I would have to say that the attackers were the fringe not the core of the people in the area. The US was also partially responsible for helping the Libyans oust Gaddafi. I suspect that real terrorists used the cover of a peaceful protest.[/quote]
*Some* local people brought him out of the compound…it does not mean that most of the local people were in favor of what the U.S. was doing there.
Also, like him or not, Gadaffi was very well respected and loved my many Libyans, largely because he drastically improved the quality of life of the Libyan people. From everything I’ve heard and read, the Libyans are dead-set against foreign intervention in their affairs. That might have something to do with what’s gone on in Benghazi.
