State Department spokeswoman, Victoria J. Nuland, said
“It’s a new day in a lot of countries across the Middle East and North Africa.”
- 9/14/2012
The unrest started began with the murder Tuesday of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other embassy officials. It has spread to Yemen, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Algeria, Sudan, Morocco and Tunisia. The violence and expressions of hatred are directed at Israel, the United States, and the western world in general.
The underlying idea uniting the terrorists and rioters combines religion and geo-politics, and can perhaps be described as that of a war by followers of Mohammed against followers of Moses, be they Jewish or Christian.
It's only the beginning of a long, contentious process of adjustment for the United States, because of how Arab countries’ view U.S. relations with Israel.
