US Embassy/Consulate Under Assault

The U.S. Consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt have been attacked and the U.S. Ambassador to Libya has died from smoke inhalation.

The attack in Libya came hours after Egyptian protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, pulling down the American flag and temporarily replacing it with a black Islamic banner. The brazen assaults - the first on U.S. diplomatic facilities in either country - underscored the lawlessness that has taken hold in both Egypt and Libya after revolutions ousted their autocratic secular regimes and upended the tightly controlled police state in both countries. Islamists, who were long repressed under the previous regimes, have emerged as a powerful force but new governments in both nations are struggling to achieve stability.

I'm not sure what the difference is between a consulate and an embassy, but I'm pretty sure that they shouldn't be getting attacked by mobs. Perhaps that's culturally insensitive of me. Maybe that's just how they celebrate 9/11 over in the middle east.

Apparently, they were upset over a movie. I get it. This is the way they give out negative movie reviews in the middle east.