Egypt protesters were paid

[ez bake]

How dare they blame the entire US for the actions of a few (the film makers) and respond with ridiculous anger-driven over the top responses.

We called dibbs on doing that...

 

[ignerntbend]

I hate it when a person of integrity tries to steal my whole act.

 

[Dale00]

While it may be very hip to blame the U.S., I suggest you are off base in doing so. Consider this excerpt from an interesting reaction to anti-American writings:

...many Europeans regularly tell pollsters that they perceive the United States as a major threat to world peace—fully comparable to Iran, say. But in their defense planning, Europeans worry infinitely less about America's sizable, existing nuclear arsenal than they do about Iran's gathering one or al-Qaeda's hypothetical one. It's almost as if they know that, despite their hyperbole, Washington has no aggressive designs on them. Or consider that the residents of Belgrade in 1999, and those of Baghdad in 2003, walked the streets during NATO and Coalition bombing campaigns. It's almost as if, despite heated rhetoric about indiscriminate violence and genocide, they knew full well that Western governments go to extraordinary lengths to protect civilians. Sunni Arabs who decry U.S. perfidy and abusiveness simultaneously fear that American troops will leave Iraq precipitously, exposing them to the tender mercies of their Shia and Kurdish countrymen. It's almost as if they detect in American troops a civilized restraint. The U.S. now hosts well over 34 million foreign-born residents and the waiting-lists for entry are long. It's almost as if, despite all the complaints of discrimination, people around the world detect opportunity and hospitality here.

Sometimes actions speak louder than words—or at least they should. Anti-Americanism is one such instance. If we observe how the world actually behaves toward the United States, rather than what they say about us, it would appear that people see America for what it really is—not a perfect society, to be sure, but most certainly a humane and decent one. Americans continue to have the sense that their country is unusual among the nations of the world. There is extensive evidence that others, too, perceive it as exceptional and act accordingly.

http://claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1260/article_detail.asp
Read the whole thing - I found it to be an interesting and refreshing perspective.

 

[RickN]

Supposedly one of the people involved in the film was hauled in for questioning on another matter, but was not charged. Just a little intimidation from the good old Obama admin.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/150781/

Yeah, The convicted felon and producer of the film apparently violated his probation by using a computer to distribute material over the internet. He hasn't been arrested. Try to keep up old man.

I think what I posted made that clear to anyone that bothered to read it, senility maybe getting to you????