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Our National Embarrassment

If you are not furious about the happenings of the last few days with our Middle Eastern embassies, you need to be. Our Libyan ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were murdered in a pre-planned attack. This attack was loosely coordinated, but coordinated none-the-less with Egypt and intended to fall on 9-11 as we commemorated the events of that horrible day eleven years ago. (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/consulate-attack-planned-as-2-part-militant-assault-libyan-official-says/) The mobs in both countries violated the borders of our embassies, which in any other part of the world would be an act of war. Imagine if you can, Americans storming the Chinese embassy within our borders. First of all, it would never happen. Secondly, there would be international condemnation and outrage; appropriately so. Even in the coldest days of the Cold War, the USSR never violated our embassy in such a way. Worse though is that in Libya, the mob turned bloodthirsty. And eve