IMHO, this is all manufactured smoke and mirrors in prep for the "October Surprise". We will be under martial law before you can say "sieg heil"... and his sycophants will be applauding!
Keep your back covered!
My take: Stevens had “gone native,” always a risk with “Arabist” Foreign Service Officers.
He honestly believed he didn't need USMC security, because the “Libyan freedom fighters” loved him so much for his help during and after the uprising. He was known to travel around Behghazi SOLO for God's sake, driving himself to meetings with locals!
IOW, he believed the gentle words of his Libyan sycophants, and he believed he was a modern-day "Lawrence of Libya."
This made him low-hanging fruit for hardcore Muslim terrorists, anytime they wanted to kill him in a splashy way. They could have killed him on any given day in the past months, but chose to make it a splashy high-profile attack on 9-11.
In effect, Stevens committed suicide-by-hubris. Too bad the others died with him. Too bad they didn't just shoot him on the street, while “Lawrence of Libya” was traveling unescorted.
But that would not have been the global spectacle the terrorists were seeking.
Hubris is what got William F Buckley kidnapped ,tortured, and killed.
The thing that counters your thoughts are the writings of Stevens in a planted diary where he outlines that he thinks he is a target.
IMHO, this is all manufactured smoke and mirrors in prep for the "October Surprise". We will be under martial law before you can say "sieg heil"... and his sycophants will be applauding!
Keep your back covered!
Wow. Didn’t know he’d gone so batty. Always a risk with sausage-to-rump types. They’re already batty to begin with.