Our embassies are under attack, what do we do about it?

[FA_Q2]

Granny says send in the drones an' cruise missiles...

... blow a few of those toads to Kingdom Come...

... the rest of `em will sit up an' take notice...

... an' get the message.

Really?

What have we been doing? Exactly what you state. We have been bombing the Middle East for over a decade and the bombs have only been increasing in regularity. That does not seem to be working.

 

[editec]

Disengaement with the current regime in Libya was exactly what the terrorists want the USA to do. This assassination was DESIGNED to drive a wedge between America and the Libyan people.

If anything we ought to cleave to the pro-democratic, pro-Americans that represent 75% of the Libyyan people.

 

[waltky]

FA_Q2 wrote: Really?

What have we been doing? Exactly what you state. We have been bombing the Middle East for over a decade and the bombs have only been increasing in regularity. That does not seem to be working.

So what do you suggest, send `em mo' money...

House GOP To Vote on Overall Funding Bill That Continues Foreign Aid to Egypt, Libya
September 13, 2012 – A bill in the House of Representatives introduced by the Republicans to fund the government for the next six months will continue foreign aid funding -- including to Libya and Egypt -- where militants stormed the U.S. Embassies in Cairo and Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomatic personnel.

Known as a continuing resolution (CR), the bill would continue funding current federal operations through March of 2013, including any foreign aid expenditures the government might make. The CR is scheduled for a vote in the House today, Thursday, where it is expected to pass with bipartisan support. House conservatives had agreed to a deal with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in July to support the bill, apparently to avoid a lame-duck fight with Senate Democrats and President Obama. But following Tuesday’s attacks on American property and personnel in Egypt and Libya, the fact that the CR allows for further foreign aid – including to those two countries – gave House conservatives heartburn. “It makes it easier to vote against,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.) said that President Obama should ask that the funding be blocked, although House Republicans themselves could amend the bill to stop that funding. Landry, in fact, sent a letter to Speaker Boehner Wednesday evening asking that the CR be halted until it could be changed to strip out funding for Egypt and Libya. “In light of the recent developments, if the president were to come back and demand that the amount of money that's in that CR [continuing resolution] for Libya and Egypt be stripped out, that would be tremendous leadership,” Landry said at the same press conference.

Now that the language of the bill has been revealed, House conservatives are expressing other reservations about it, including provisions relating to federal welfare programs. “Conservatives went to [Republican] leadership several months back and said ‘Look, to help provide some certainty – we all know that that’s something that’s missing out there in our economy with the tax issue, the sequestration issue coming – one of the things we could provide certainty on is [that] we’re not going to have some shutdown showdown fight on funding the government in the month of September or in the lame duck session at the end of the calendar year,” Rep. Jordan said.

Jordan, who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), said that House conservatives agreed to a CR worth $1.047 trillion in exchange for avoiding the lame-duck session after the election. However, he said that the RSC would have to discuss the new CR now that final language was available. “So, we said we would be willing to entertain voting for the $1.047 [trillion] discretionary level – which I don’t think anyone on this panel supported last summer – we’d be willing to do that if it was a six-month CR that got us into next year and what would hopefully be a Romney administration. “But now we look at the text and there have been some things that have been added to the CR that causes some concern, first and foremost the TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the formal name for welfare] dollars that are in there,” Jordan said.

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[FA_Q2]

FA_Q2 wrote: Really?

What have we been doing? Exactly what you state. We have been bombing the Middle East for over a decade and the bombs have only been increasing in regularity. That does not seem to be working.

So what do you suggest, send `em mo' money...

House GOP To Vote on Overall Funding Bill That Continues Foreign Aid to Egypt, Libya
September 13, 2012 – A bill in the House of Representatives introduced by the Republicans to fund the government for the next six months will continue foreign aid funding -- including to Libya and Egypt -- where militants stormed the U.S. Embassies in Cairo and Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomatic personnel.

Known as a continuing resolution (CR), the bill would continue funding current federal operations through March of 2013, including any foreign aid expenditures the government might make. The CR is scheduled for a vote in the House today, Thursday, where it is expected to pass with bipartisan support. House conservatives had agreed to a deal with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in July to support the bill, apparently to avoid a lame-duck fight with Senate Democrats and President Obama. But following Tuesday’s attacks on American property and personnel in Egypt and Libya, the fact that the CR allows for further foreign aid – including to those two countries – gave House conservatives heartburn. “It makes it easier to vote against,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.) said that President Obama should ask that the funding be blocked, although House Republicans themselves could amend the bill to stop that funding. Landry, in fact, sent a letter to Speaker Boehner Wednesday evening asking that the CR be halted until it could be changed to strip out funding for Egypt and Libya. “In light of the recent developments, if the president were to come back and demand that the amount of money that's in that CR [continuing resolution] for Libya and Egypt be stripped out, that would be tremendous leadership,” Landry said at the same press conference.

Now that the language of the bill has been revealed, House conservatives are expressing other reservations about it, including provisions relating to federal welfare programs. “Conservatives went to [Republican] leadership several months back and said ‘Look, to help provide some certainty – we all know that that’s something that’s missing out there in our economy with the tax issue, the sequestration issue coming – one of the things we could provide certainty on is [that] we’re not going to have some shutdown showdown fight on funding the government in the month of September or in the lame duck session at the end of the calendar year,” Rep. Jordan said.

Jordan, who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), said that House conservatives agreed to a CR worth $1.047 trillion in exchange for avoiding the lame-duck session after the election. However, he said that the RSC would have to discuss the new CR now that final language was available. “So, we said we would be willing to entertain voting for the $1.047 [trillion] discretionary level – which I don’t think anyone on this panel supported last summer – we’d be willing to do that if it was a six-month CR that got us into next year and what would hopefully be a Romney administration. “But now we look at the text and there have been some things that have been added to the CR that causes some concern, first and foremost the TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the formal name for welfare] dollars that are in there,” Jordan said.

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*sigh*

Perhaps you should read my post where it states exactly what I think we should do.

Now, back to your point: bombs. We have been dropping bombs for a decade. How has that helped and how is bombing more going to help?