Romney was wrong, and profoundly un-presidential, to make a divisive attack on the President in the midst of an uncertain national security situation that could have gone critical. His statement put his personal political agenda ahead of the national interest.
Romney was even more profoundly wrong when he said the Egyptian embassy statement was "an apology for American principles" when the statement was so clearly a strong defense of the American principle of religious tolerance: "Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy." Romney was wrong, and a little ridiculous, not to appreciate that.
Whether Romney's demagoguery is a reflection of incompetence or simply lying for his own short-term gain doesn't change how wrong he was.
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Candy Crowley Was Wrong When She Affirmed Romney
At the end of the Benghazi kerfuffle during the October 16 debate, moderator Candy Crowley said to Romney, referring to President Obama: "He -- he did call it an act of terror. It did as well take -- it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are correct about that,"
She was right about the "act of terror" usage, but not so much about the "riot," though it's hard to tell just what she means with her garbled syntax. Since she's affirming Romney, one can infer that she's agreeing with his false assertion that "there was no demonstration, " only a terrorist attack. In fact, it appears, from local reports, to have been both at once.
Committed conspiracy theorists tie themselves in knots trying to make the case for some conspiracy of some sort, such as Forbes taking the New York Times to task for figuring out the complexity of the event within a day but not sharing it with their readers immediately. The offending and messy reality, as reported by the Times on October 15, is wholly consistent with the breaking news coverage on television:
To
those on the ground, the circumstances of the attack are hardly a
mystery. Most of the attackers made no effort to hide their faces or
identities, and during the assault some acknowledged to a Libyan journalist
working for The New York Times that they belonged to the group. And their
attack drew a crowd, some of whom cheered them on, some of whom just gawked,
and some of whom later looted the compound.
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