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alcibiades_mystery

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13. The explanation detailed in the NY Times article is perfectly plausible

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 09:25 AM

Jan 2014

They (Stevens and Co.) misread the situation. It happens all the time. Government officials are not all-knowing. They're human and fallible like the rest of us. They misread crowds all the time. Hell, in 1979 a mob took over the entire US Embassy in Pakistan and burned it to the ground, killing a US Marine. We hardly ever hear about that (we always hear about Iran).

The explanation we have - a fired up mob in an increasingly unfriendly environment had an odd trigger (that imbecile film) and attacked the facility. Done. US personnel were there for their ordinary business, and didn't realize how unstable the situation was until it was too late. Shit moves slowly because people were caught off guard. I don't understand what's not "plausible" about any of this. It strikes me as not only plausible, but utterly likely.

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