also how is this a worse tragedy than natural disasters or shootings or attacks where more than four people died? This is such a typical Randian idea, that the lives of diplomats and people in high positions are worth far more than other human beings?

That last one should not have been phrased in the form of a question.

Yeah I always found it interesting that all the reports say "The attackers killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans". I've never heard the other 3 named or identified or put on any sort of equal footing with the ambassador.

Some people die and it's a tragedy, and sometimes it's just other people dying.

It's worse because Democrats.

His fucking 4th grade teacher should have gotten it together.

Yes, amazingly no one in DC is talking about the fact that the suicides in the army now outweigh the amount of people actually being killed in the war.

There is so much incompetence to hate here. Rand Paul has some amazing amounts of righteous indignation for someone who sided with BP after the oil spill.

Absolutely, I couldn't say it better.

It's the topical issue of the moment. It'll pass, as they always do, but not without some bad political theater.

Hey, Rand also brought up the important waste of 0K to send Indian-American comedians to India on a goodwill mission, just like we've done since the 1960's.

I mean, that's worth his salary, our time, and everything, right?

They really really really want Obama to be Carter. He's not, he's more of a socially liberal George HW Bush. They still think this scandal will bring him down, but they don't know no one cares because they exist in the beltway bubble. The countless drone deaths are much more of a scandal but of course Republicans want more drone strikes, not less.

And of course talking about the military suicides can't happen because then we'd need to mention we should be spending more money on mental healthcare for our veterans, and maybe mention that war is horrible and we need to stop.

Funny, that. Soldier deaths were the last thing the Republicans wanted to talk about during the whole War on Terror debacle. Not to mention Condi Rice had many deaths due to terrorism reclassified as accidents or just about any other category so nobody could point out how terrorism had increased after Bush's bullshit wars got going.

Agreed.