Winston Churchill once said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” On September 11, Islamopanderer Christopher Stevens, a career diplomat, became one of the first Americans in Libya to feed the crocodile of Ansar Al-Sharia and learned too late that while appeasers may hope to be eaten last, they are often eaten first.
FRONTPAGE by Daniel Greenfield (H/T Maria) Christopher Stevens was a Middle Eastern diplomat who typified the new breed going from the University of Berkeley and the Peace Corps to desks in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. He taught English to Moroccan children in the Peace Corps and helped Palestinian Arabs in the East Jerusalem Consulate, which has a firm policy of pretending that Israel does not exist.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Christopher Stevens that he “made other people’s hopes his own” and that may serve as a fitting eulogy both for Stevens and for the disastrous foreign policy of making “other people’s hopes” our own that brought on the Arab Spring. Stevens, like Clinton and Obama, made the hopes of Islamists his own and they repaid him for it, just as Afghans repaid America for supporting them against the Soviet Union, as Lebanon and Somalia repaid America’s peacekeeping efforts by killing American troops and on down the litany of gratitude in bombs and bullets that have come America’s way from the Muslim world.
“He risked his life to stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to build a better Libya,” Hillary Clinton said, but if anything his murder exposed the lie that there is a better Libya now than there was before Hillary and he intervened in Libya. Clinton’s eulogy comes perilously close to conceding Stevens’ real mission and the degree of American intervention in the overthrow of Gaddafi.
Stevens was the connection between the Islamist Benghazi rebels and the Obama administration’s illegal war to overthrow Gaddafi. His mission, like the true mission of the war, was secret, and the consulate, marginally fortified and devoid of Marines, reflected that secrecy. Stevens did not think that he had anything to fear from the Islamists because they were his friends.
In the Wikileaks cables, Stevens cheerfully described fighters who saw “resistance against coalition forces in Iraq” as “an important act of ‘jihad’” and local businessmen who took pride in the number of suicide bombers who had come out of the area. For years he had walked safely in their company without understanding that he was just as much of a target as a Marine in Baghdad, but without the training, the weapons or the survival skills.
The only reason Christopher Stevens had lasted this long is that the jihadist fighters had known a useful man when they met him. And Stevens proved to be very useful, but his usefulness ended with Gaddafi’s death. Once the US successfully overthrew Gaddafi and began focusing on stabilizing Libya, Stevens ceased to be a useful idiot and became a useless nuisance. Attacks soon followed on the Benghazi consulate and on other consulates as well, but the Marines were not brought in and Stevens continued relying on local goodwill to secure his offices. It was only a matter of time until the attackers got through.
Clinton, her State Department and its media allies appear unnaturally eager to paint Christopher Stevens as an American martyr to the cause of Libyan Islamism, a kinder, gentler Rachel Corrie who willingly died so that the Islamists might have their dream of an Islamic state in Libya.
Many in the World Trade Center on 9/11 chose to jump to their deaths, but Christopher Stevens chose to remain inside and die rather than face the tender mercies of his attackers. Stevens had spent enough time in Libya to have seen what the jihadist fighters did to their captives and must have known what horrors he could expect at their hands. The photos that have been released, along with claims by Libyan jihadists that they sexually assaulted his corpse, suggest that he made the right choice. And perhaps in those final moments, facing that terrible choice, Christopher Stevens finally understood the true horror of the Muslim world that he had fallen in love with as a Peace Corps volunteer.
“He was an avid student of Islam and the Middle East, and consistently strove to build the proverbial bridge between our two cultures in the face of sometimes overwhelming antagonism and bitter misunderstanding,” a friend from the diplomatic service tells us. But though Christopher Stevens may have studied Islam, he had learned very little about it, and so his final lesson was the bloody one that Westerners who never really learn what Islam is about end up receiving.
“The world needs more Chris Stevenses,” Hillary Clinton said, but does it really? Does it need more tall dead blond Americans lying bloodied in the gutters of Muslim cities? Does it need men who give up the hopes and dreams of their country to take on the dreams of their enemies without ever realizing where the fatal road of those dreams leads?
Stevens’ former Peace Corps colleague says of him, “Chris devoted his career, and life, to improving relations between the Arabic/Islamic world and the West.” That he did and he died doing it, losing whatever career or life he might have had if he had not embarked on a futile errand to make the Muslims who killed him and paraded around his body like him. And like all those who have died over the years in the same cause, the effort was to no avail.
That is the terrible blind spot in our vision which, like Christopher Stevens, tells us that we need to save the Muslims who hate us, rather than showing us that we need to save ourselves.
Naive dreamers are dangerous people. How is that hope and change working out for you, Ambassador Stevens? You cannot change other people. You cannot control other people. You can only control or change yourself. Control or change of others is an illusion that can only be advanced with coercion. Once the coercion stops, they revert to what they are. I have not wished Mr. Stevens ill, and I feel for any family he left behind, but I have no pity for Mr. Stevens. He naively thought he could change a third world shithole and it cost him everything. Who hired him and put him in charge of changing the world? Such arrogance, as if he knew what was best for other people, from another culture, on the other side of the wold. His taxpayer funded JOB was to represent the interest of the U.S.A. But I guess he had better things to do.
Hope, and Change, will get you a cup of coffee.
Feel free to re-use.
U can stand In mediinna ,cant wait …,Will the left ever learn ?
It breaks my heart that there are still misguided dupes that don’t and won’t understand what is going on.
I guess……….it is not possible to save those who won’t save themselves.
By blaming it all on a video, Obama once again sticks to his words and stands with Islam. In another time Obama would be hanged for his actions. His friendship with the Muslim Brotherhood would be enough reason to impeach him. Isn’t that why our forefathers hanged Benedict Arnold?
Still….what boss sends an openly gay man into the 7th century????? His parents should sue the State Department.
The cognative dissonance of the braying donkeys is pretty jaw dropping stuff ain’t it? They’ll never get a clue.
Here is an example to consider, knowing Ambassador Stevens’ father’s attitude towards Obama critics – calling us stupid for blaming the administration’s policies, notice the contrast with the reaction of Nicholas Berg’s father, and his scathing denouncement of the Bush Administration for his son’s beheading. Now, I have serious doubts that we will ever hear Steven’s father denounce the Libyan muslims who murdered his son.
Cognative dissonance, they’re all infected with it.
What Stevens failed to learn is how Muslims are so good at practicing decption. Their friendship to him was as BNI said only because he was useful to them. I do have one thought following what took place. Since the marines were not allowed to carry live ammo, wouldn’t it be wise to allow Stevens and the others the choice of carrying a blue or red pill? Knowing what these savages do to their captives and after seeing what they did to Gaddafi, I would want that choice.
Blue or red pill? Interesting. The only problem is that liberal democrats are sheep. They cannot see danger even if it buggered them up the ass, as they did to Stevens. Sheep need sheep dogs to protect them. Only problem is, they muzzled the sheep dogs, or in this case, the “Devil Dogs.”
Bazinga!
It has been mentioned – by at least one Libyan sympathizer for the US and one agent of the Israeli intelligence group – that the muslims video recorded their anal and oral rapes of the man before they killed him. Perhaps they will share a copy with his father, who stated taht only stupid people blamed the current obama administration for the events.
SR, Steven’s father said that?
One of the leftists news media whores had asked him what he thought of the Right saying that obama’s weakness and Hilary’s refusal to beef up security were in any way responsible for the murders; he replied that those things were said by foolish people with political agenda, and that it was nonsense. This was on a radio broadcast that I heard.
BTW = do you remember Daniel Pearl? Remember what HIS father said?
Perhaps grief causes madness i these people, and out of guilt for their support of the very causes that killed their sons, drives them to blame others and defend the murderers.
And the State Department and the DOD were both given covert information that events were planned for 9-11, by attacks on embassies and US owned businesses, several days before. The warnings were brushed off.
SR, all I can say is, like father like son.
SR. Yes it is like a form of Stockholm Syndrome isn’t it? I will never understand the leftist paradigm.
Naive idealists of the left have no business working for the taxpayer’s dollar on any level of government. Though I feel these murders to be an act of war and deserving of the total destruction and liquidation of Libya as a country AND people, along with the permanent occupation of Libya’s oil assets, I too, feel no pity for the death of this stupid, stupid man. One word, and one word alone seals the deal for me. Berkeley, that Babylon of the Left Coast, bastion of Marxism, depraved narcissists, and general all around Fruit Loops who consistently demonstrate their unfitness to even be called human, let alone to be considered as much. Berkeley, that whore of a city (and university) who brings decadent buffoonery to ever greater heights of madness. Berkeley, proud home of “Medusa” Benjamin’s “Code Stink” and the very worse ideological dross that America has to offer. Berkeley, percolator of braying donkey do-gooders and nihilistic anarchists – itself a contradiction in terms.
The chickens have now come home to roost. For that, we can thank the POS’ (miss)administration for aiding and abetting the overthrow of Gadaffi, the monster we knew.
No, I don’t pity this idiot diplomat, for he deserves a Darwin Award for his trouble, posthumously of course.
No, I pity America.
yup Berkeley my main processor locked up on that virus also !
Three words keep running through my head: “That poor, dumb bastard.” A high profile gay man working in an Islamic country is simply asking for it. I pray that Romney grasps this situation and shows America why it must get rid of Obama.
These idiots think that if you are nice to muslims, they will like you and cause you no harm. WRONG!!!!! IDIOTS!!!!! Muslims see weakness as a sign to them to pounce. Only strength is respected.
Libya’s Gaddafi was fighting AGAINST AL-QAEDA. US, France and NATO united with Al-Qaeda and other barbaric terrorists and waged war for many months to defeat Libya and Gaddafi and place excessively cruel Muslim terrorists into power.
The US/NATO war enabled and empowered the ANTI-Gaddafi Muslims to perpetrate horrific atrocities and genocide of blacks in Libya. Blacks were safe under Gaddafi. Obama, Clinton and our supposedly civilized Western leaders were silent about the atrocities and genocide. SILENCE IS CONSENT. US/NATO created hell on earth in Libya.
America is reaping the harvest of horrors they sowed in Libya. Gaddafi was hunted down by a US/NATO aircraft enabling his violent beating and savage sexual attack by U.S. backed ANTI-Gaddafi Muslims. This is the exact same thing that was done to U.S. ambassador, Christoper Stevens. Stevens supported the jihadis who barbarically murdered him.
This is what happens when you COOPERATE with, and EMPOWER EVIL.
The West must stop empowering barbaric Muslims! The West must stop supporting global jihad!
The West must stop waging wars for totalitarian Islam!
Our world and civilization is being destroyed by Islam-adoring Western leaders!
Great article by Greenfield, and excellent commentary by you, BNI. A wretched mess it is.
regardless as to what ambassador Stephens was he did not deserve to die and be defiled like that. PERIOD
I agree, dragonfFIRE01, No One deserves that. His mistake was placing his trust and life in the hands of Obama and Clinton. If honor and honesty was water those two couldn’t generate enough between them to put out a dying ember on a candle.
Another Lefty Dhimmi do-gooder Shitslm sympathiser bites the dust. Well get ready to see more of these idiots get their thanks from the inbred world of thankless savage Moslem scum. Can me a hard ass bitch but I have zero sympathy for silly people like this Stevens fellow when they choose to dance with the devils pf this world. And being a gay man surely he must have known what that being im a country that kill people publicly for being gay (the inbreeds who raped him must be exempted as they were clearly gay themselves to commit the act) he took that risk and assumed (mistake number 1 “assume” with inbreed Muzscum) he was a well lovex hero over there due to his love of Islam, he would be safe and protected. Well like with all the Liberal do gooders in the past whom met with a savage demise, he saw the true colors come through and the real graditude but it was far too late. He wont be the last we will hear of … If I was that old bat Hillary id be careful on who to trust around her, that is her so called Muzzo mates which are many.
I see in this scenario an excellent example of what happens to a person when he lacks the good sense and discretion to not consider the fact he is shaking hands with the Devil and becoming one of Satan’s chief allies!!…American and western dhimmis, wake the hell up!! These muslime bastards cannot be appeased; they will only be satisfied when we are either all dead OR lifting our arses alongside them, chanting “Allahuuuuuu Akbar”!!
What this proves Obama Hilliary and Mister Bill are fools and understand nothing. Mister Bill started this act of kissing Arab ass when the Cole was Attacked. When the Towers were Attacked Hillery ran the White House because Mister Bill was out of the country and needed a way in.
If Hillery felt Mister Bill wasn’t safe outside of the country then she is a outright murderer along with Obama. Hillery was the one who used Bush ti get in Homeland Security. That was the most stupid thing to do everyone reports to one civilian not to the president.
Now see the mess it caused with terrorist, Border problems, and when a national disaster nothing happens because a stupid bitch runs everything. Go home Hillery keep a eye on Mister Bill and take the head of homeland security with you for her grandchildren.
What is the chance that the other three Americans who were killed were raped as well? Seems quite likely to me. How could they save themselves from a rampaging mob like that. Any info coming out yet on how they died?
It is no big surprise how the POS (Miss)administration takes the muslim protester’s talking points, affixing blame for the protests leading to Ambassador Stevens’ death upon that muhammad video rather than all the administration’s best brains being shoved up Shillary’s ample, “foggy bottom.” Not that there’s much difference, mind you.
They’re all full of flatulence.
Obama and Hitlery(no typo) chose to ignore the fact that muslims regularly kill odd men the same way they ignore every filthy muslim uncivilized action.
The vry fact that they sent an Odd person to represent our country to a nation of homo haters is evidence of their piss poor diplomatic skills. They sent him there as a reward for his stupid progressive, liberal behavior. “There, thats a good boy. Now go and get raped to death by barbarians.” I recived a message from an acquaintence who is even more non-Pee Cee than I am. She said “Omigawd! They sent a poof to a country that kills queers!
How stupid can they be?
Both left and right extremes are equally wrong and dangerous. We need sound reason and logic to lead our decision making in politics and not partisan bickering. It is true that Islam is a filthy retarded belief system, but zionism is also a formidably racist and dangerous belief system that is rooted in tribalism and will also use us then spit out American corpses once it is done with us, so let us beware and not turn a blind eye an continue to kiss up to their lobbies either. We (Americans) should not become their “bitch” and “useful idiot” either!
I was born Catholic, gave up the faith when I became an adult. I believe that Christianity also suffers from extremism, is inherently discriminatory, intolerant, and inherently evil. I’d also describe most of the worlds main organized religions this way.
Christians didn’t carry out 9/11 or the thousands of outrages before and after. Islam did.
Moral relativism is dangerously wrong. Multiculturalism is a moral sickness.