This awful news basically fits the old-school definition of an act of war, but Libya itself seems to be imploding, the Libyan government isn't behind it and can't seem to stop it, and all I'm expecting is more mewling from our own pathetic, prostrate leadership. The body count is now 4 in the assault on the US consulate in Libya. The bloody chaos is getting worse.
Anyway, there is a horrifying kind of contrast between the Libyan deputy prime minister using Twitter to condemn the mess and the actual on-the-ground inability to get a handle on the situation. It's like modernity and the dark age ran headlong into each other. Somehow it all seems like an apt metaphor for the Arab Spring, when tech-savvy, Facebooking sophisticated young liberal reformers got their moment - right before the violent extremists stormed in like a medieval horde.
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