Ed Gamble, 9/16/12:
When individuals in a country take dangerous, provocative, damaging actions against a foreign nation -- for example, when a random American filmmaker deliberately tries to incite violence by insulting the religion of a billion people -- that is proof that the nation in question is itself now hostile.
Or perhaps the lesson is that diplomacy is hard, and relies on dealing with countries with radically different social and political structures from our own, which does not always work out in precisely the way we want it to.
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