9/11/12 Embassy, Ambassador, Prophet Depiction, Mobs, Politicians...

[EastsideAl]

The attack in Libya was a pre-planned and coordinated strike by forces hostile to the U.S. and the new U.S. backed regime there.

Other than that though, the fact is that these are actually relatively small, if fervent, protests consisting of at most a few hundred people. The video behind it was whipped up by a very small group of radically anti-Islamic Coptic Christian Egyptians living here in the U.S. to serve their own ends. After producing the video they then did all they could over the past couple of months to bring it to the attention of radical Islamic demagogues in Egypt. When at least one of those demagogues with his own TV program [[sort of an Egyptian Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck) eventually got around to seeing the video, he, predictably, reacted with much outrage.

The result has been the rather small-scale, but very dramatic and public, violence that both sides wanted. In so doing, they've stuck us all in the middle of their battle.