We could use the thread to discuss similar incidents of the past couple of decades, for which we have had enough time to get perspective.

 

a short partial list of possibilities:

 

2008 US embasy bombings in Yemen, ten killed.

2008 arson of the US Embassy in Serbia.

2007 grenade attack on the US Embassy in Athens.

2006 armed assault on the US Embassy in Syria, 1 killed.

2004 armed assualt on the US Embassy in Uzbekistan, 2 killed.

2004 armed assault on the US Consulate in Saudi Arabia, 8 killed.

2002 armed assault on the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, 10 killed.

Edited December 4, 201213 yr by overtone

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Moderator Note

Split from Who really killed our Ambassador to Libya?

This isn't really a topic on its own - it was posted to provide context for the Benghazi thread;

 

especially, an opportunity for the posters who find the diplomatic handling of the Benghazi event uniquely significant and accusatory to explain why, by comparing and contrasting the diplomatic handling of better known and less immediately infalmmatory events of the recent past.

You should thank swansont, IMO. That other thread was 30 some-odd pages of bullshit and nonsense and distractions. If you want to have a serious discussion, then a new thread will assist you in that endeavor tremendously.

 

What about the other attacks you mention did you want to discuss, though?