[Clara Lou]

There is limit to how responsible we can be for what crazy people do
I agree to an extent. Newsweek,though, bears a burden of responsibility here. It's internationally read, and their journalists are supposed to be professional-- reliable and factual. If Newsweek had done its job, none of this would have happened. Period.

[paul_fromatlanta]

>>I agree to an extent. Newsweek,though, bears a burden of responsibility here. It's internationally read, and their journalists are supposed to be professional-- reliable and factual. If Newsweek had done its job, none of this would have happened. Period.<<

I didn't mean to minimize Newsweek's problem - to print something damaging to the country on one unsubstantiated anonymous source is sloppy at best and complicit in fraud at worst.

But if a America or some American angers Muslims and they respond by killing innocent people, we're not responsible for the deaths but only for our own actions...

For example I think Israel is wrong to keep settlements in the occupied territories and not giving Palestinians equal rights... but does that make it Israel's fault when Palestinian terrorists blow up a bus of civilians? No way.