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What I have to question is they always say, it is only a small percentage doing the rioting, murdering, bombing and all those sorts. But I ask how is it possible for an entire nation to overthrow an embassy? There is only so many needed. What is everyone doing? Are looking on in quiet approval? It doesn't appear that anyone is putting a hand up and saying something about such foolishness. If most are moderate and condemn such actions why are they so common. It's possible that 10% of Americans are radical, violent despots but the 90% will not allow it.
The Obama administration's omnibus answer to why the Middle East (and now much of the Muslim world) is in near open rebellion against the United States: The video did it.
The follow-up question no one seems to be asking is: "What if the administration's explanation is true?"
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insists the attacks in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere were a "response not to United States policy, and not to, obviously, the administration, not to the American people," but were rather a spontaneous "response to a video, a film we have judged to be reprehensible...
That's the mentality we are dealing with. That is why the 90% don't stop or even denounce the 10%. They agree with them in principle, even if they often find the tactics distateful.