Obama must want to replicate Reagan's Challenger moment, but he failed. The Middle East is in flames and there are demonstrations elsewhere including in London. And yet they have the temerity to suggest this was all due to a video.
Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues were killed by a carefully planned terrorist attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The cause was not a film or any other pretext to explain what has become a protracted war between radical Islamic fundamentalists and Western values. There was no film to precipitate the flying of airplanes into the World Trade Center, the bombing of the USS Cole, the shooting at Ft. Hood, the blowing up of Kobar Towers, the attacks against our embassies in East Africa, etc. The list is long not only against US interests, but against other countries as well. The violence is being perpetrated overwhelmingly by Islamic radicals against other religious groups. Many Muslims have also been victims. They need no excuse or provocation from us to attack us. There is nothing we can say that will placate them save adopt their world view.
STOP APOLOGIZING.
This is the beginning of an all out attack on the United States. And obama knew it weeks ago.