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Originally Posted by Benz Fan
Are you really going to try to draw a parallel between a one-day flare-up at an embassy, versus a 444-day long hostage crisis clearly conducted in cooperation with the then-current Iranian government? Do you have strong evidence of Libyan government complicity in yesterday's events?
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Are you saying its all over? The hostage situation also started with a single day, but it kept on and on.
No historical parallels are ever perfect. I was looking at an embassy situation before an election. Both times a sitting Democrat looking for re-election in poor economic times. Nothing more.