re: #66 Obdicut

Okay. I can understand that— but even so, if there was an attack planned already against US interests, I don’t get why informing the US public of that is at all important. I don’t know the very granular and specific motivations for any other attacks on US embassies or soldiers or what have you, and before this incident motivation was never really talked about.

I don’t get what changes for us, the general public, if it’s one or the other. Obviously, attacks due to spontaneous (whether it’s egged on by firebrands or not) reactions to crap occur, and just as obviously attacks that are planned for a long time occur. Nailing down which one this was seems like a rather pointless exercise for the general public. For those who work in the field, obviously its of importance.

Yeah, I think that’s pretty much it. Hell, it’s entirely possible that the militia was musing about some strike, then the video happened and they saw their opportunity. It’s possible. I just don’t get why the fuck anyone thinks this is important enough to go on and fucking on about.

Because I’m interested in foreign policy, and in terrorism, and to some extent in North Africa, mainly. And I’m more interested in that than in the latest evidence that the Republican party hates Barack Obama’s administration and has lost their damn mind over it.