i was up way late last niht b/c of 9-11 stuff (not on media tho) so Ididn't even hear about this until mid=afternoon.
lot of good posts...here's what i know and i could be mistaken as I was doing someof the tpe of thihgs that i need a certain kind of back forth concnetration on several thingsfor so ccould not focus as much as I wanted to on tis very upsetting stuff....
i wtill have to look up the stuff thast happened after WWI that wqas mnetionhed. IS this refering to the break-up of the Ottaman Empire and the partitioning of the area into countries thay more or less reprsentented tribes?
I remember my mom saying her mom Greek-born rode on a tank towords the end of WW1 when Greece was liberated from the Ottamon Empire... just adding i don't hate present day Turkey because of whatb happened back then....
it can be tricky over long periods of history when they say a country, a people's has a long memory.... I'm not a total pacifist.... but i do think that some point as long as a country or a poeple in the the present aim for good relations with former enemies, or oppresors where in real respect through words and actions and more egalitarianism is strived for...killing would hopefully stop.
romney and the right.... and the "apology" as i understand the timeline...the apology was issued BEFORE the protest or as the protest started in Egypt when our gov found out that this movie had been played on TV (egyption TV ? TV in Florida where that pastoer is?)
And the Libyan assault may have used the Egyptian protest as a cover for theirs...plus the under pinnings of the fact it might have been furrther back planned for 9-11 posibly.
And not only were these Libyians apologizing (I hadn't heard that) but there were Libyians helped to get the embassy people to the hospital.
so those are some main things i've picked up
oh one more very important thing\
the film-maker may have ties to Christian groups here (in The States)
Is gets into tricky and dangerous stuuff because...
there are far-right Christian groups that are helping far right religious Jews in Israel to in a sense lets see "speed up" the Apocolypse which they caculate by signs and prophesy from the bible and in what's happened in recent years by helping ?? the Temple of David be rebuilt after they ?destroy the Mosque that was ?built over the older Temple of David... thus triggering an an extra deadly middle-east war that could spread
on both accounts.
i hope got that generally right!
These are one faction of the Far Right Christians. The others very dangerous in their own ways don't believe that god/jesus has tipped their hand by reading the bible for the Apocolypse...that that will happened at some future point and no human can know this notmatter how they parse the bible.
In thwe meantime
they want an American Theocracy and are as we see working towards
that end !