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Mitt Romney Was Wrong From the Start
Mitt Romney said, in a prepared statement the night of the Benghazi attack: "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." This is documentably wrong.
Romney was wrong if the "first response" he meant was the Cairo embassy statement condemning attacks on "the religious feelings of Muslims," because that statement preceded any violence in Egypt or Libya.
Romney was wrong insofar as his statement implies that attacks on the religious freedoms of Muslims are appropriate national policy and should not be condemned.
Romney was wrong insofar as he implied that all Muslims are enemies of America by claiming that the embassy statement had sympathized with "those who waged the attacks" (which hadn't happened when the embassy issued its statement, and were going to be in a different country).
Romney was wrong if he was unable or unwilling to make the distinction between the routine communication of an Egyptian embassy seeking to head offdifficulty by responding locally to local conditions (before the attack in a different country) and the actual "administration's first response" by the Secretary of State (after the attack in Libya).
Romney was wrong on the substance if the "first response" he meant was in fact Secretary of State Clinton's first response that began: "I condemn in the strongest terms the attacks on our mission in Benghazi today." (Romney issued his mistaken statement almost simultaneously with Clinton's.)
Romney, whose foreign policy credentials are shaky at best, was wrong to issue any inflammatory statement in the midst of a developing confrontation, especially when he had no grasp of the facts.
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