This is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims
No sorry I've been to that part of the world and this is insane. I'm sure the film pissed of the militants, easy to piss them off. Most of the population do not have internet access so its not a personal affront by seeing it, still probably pisses them off but this was planned if it wasn't the film it'd be something else as the "trigger".
To be completely clear I do not blame the USA at all for the attacks, not the president, not his policies, not the demented film maker. It's important to realize this is a real attack on the USA because we are the USA there is no one trigger it is something more, it hard to describe. It's a real hate, it's a evil in a way.
Whatever this turns out to be it been in the works a long time.
This
is
a
real
threat.