some kind of attack on the embassy that we know is coming by condemning a film that nobody has seen, that has nothing to do with the united states, and nothing to do with our government. to even condemn it seems to suggest to the rest of the world that somehow the united states government is responsible for free speech in this country. and it was a mistake for that to be issued by the embassy. and by the way, the obama administration says so too. because they made it clear that they did not clear this statement from the embassy in advance. and that statement was a mistake and i believe that governor romney is entirely correct to crises it. it s part of a general pattern. and this is what bill kristol said as well. it s part of a general pattern of trying to placate some of the most implacable enemies of the united states of america. lawrence, what s your take on that? has the obama administration had a general pattern of trying to, as michael put it, placate the most implacable enemy
the obama campaign is driving. he doesn t have less foreign policy experience than, say, barack obama had before, you know, he worked in international business, he s talked to people at a high level in that world for a long time, as much as bill clinton, as many presidents did, before taking office. i think there s a bind on republican foreign policy right now, which is that in their heart, what they want to say is that who lost egypt, who lost libya. you know, we need to be in a muscular way retake control of these places. at the same time, anything that is a hint of american involvement overseas polls terribly. they know they can t reach the logical conclusion of a lot of these arguments, which is some troops somewhere in the middle east. so you re struck condemning obama without an answer, without saying, yes, let s invade syria. so you spoke to a bunch of republican foreign policy hands today. what did they say the obama campaign should do next? what did they say the next move wa
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government. to even condemn it seems to suggest to the rest of the world that somehow the united states government is responsible for free speech in this country. and it was a mistake for that to be issued by the embassy. and by the way, the obama administration says so too. because they made it clear that they did not clear this statement from the embassy in advance. and that statement was a mistake and i believe that governor romney is entirely correct to crises it. it s part of a general pattern. and this is what bill kristol said as well. it s part of a general pattern of trying to placate some of the most implacable enemies of the united states of america. lawrence, what s your take on that? has the obama administration had a general pattern of trying to, as michael put it, placate the most implacable enemy of america? absolutely not.
room it was disgusting. but it would have been totally inappropriate for any governmental authority to condemn it. we don t do that in the united states. it s not the role of government. and frankly, anyone in an embassy and you can see how poorly it worked out, by the way. it didn t make anyone safer when that statement was issued. let me ask you something about this, lawrence. i think one of the things that s somewhat confusing to me when i hear some of these arguments is that i don t the obama administration continued for brought us out of the war in iraq, but did the surges in afghanistan, although it s beginning to draw that war down. they significantly stepped up drone attacks in pakistan and in afghanistan. they did end up killing not just a large slew of al qaeda number twos, but also in the end, osama bin laden. it feels strange to say, or it feels it s hard for me to see this as sort of an apologetic