If we're not supposed to condemn the jerks that made the anti-islam movie

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137. Never said that - in this case the Military had an understanding of local conditions

If it had been NGO that had the same level of information, and said that if you continue in your actions, violence is likely, would you call that "deciding what speech is acceptable?"

How is REQUESTING that he stop deciding anything? Clearly they didn't take other action to stop him.

Actually, I think that this is a job where the Military was absolutely on point - attempting to prevent violence by letting bigoted assholes know when they could be setting off a powder keg.

When this bigoted asshole decided to burn a Koran in public in Florida, public officials asked him not to. They also did not stop him. However the community rallied to let the Muslims in the area know that this was not representative of American thought. Those Muslims in Egypt did not have that - and a small number of them reacted violently to what they thought was a message that was representative of Americans.