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Romney campaign blunders again

NolaMan said:
My point is that the issue will ultimately boil down to the horrible foreign policy we have pursued over the last four years. Four years ago Obama pledged to seek conciliation with the Muslim world -- today, that is a disaster.

It is my view that we chose poorly in our support of various groups in various countries during the last four years and we are now seeing the result.

I hope the President makes better choices from here on in (and I am not sure Romney would have made any better choices) -- but the fact remains, the last four years we have seen a major decline in our influence around the world.
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Perhaps you could be proved correct. Time will tell as the election results are counted. I suspect the public does not see it the way you do.
 
NolaMan said:
Great job they did cooling things down.



It was an idiotic post. Being in roles like this means accepting the danger that you might face. Regardless of the situation they were in, their words have consequences. We need people in such posts who make good judgement calls in pressure situations -- the staff at the embassy in Egypt so far has come up short in that regard.



I was in the Army in Iraq and later Afghanistan, and dealt with situations not exactly like this -- but arguablely quite similiar. I think the staffers there used poor judgement in how they handled the situation. Were they under stress? Of course, but tough luck -- that is part of the job they signed up for.
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So they made a mistake, I don't think its a huge deal. Projecting an infallible tough guy image abroad isn't the most important thing in the world.
 
Verax said:
So they made a mistake, I don't think its a huge deal. Projecting an infallible tough guy image abroad isn't the most important thing in the world.
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The mistake was not that we did not project an "infalliable tough guy image", the mistake was that the embassy made any statement on the subject.

That said, I don't think we need to project an infallible image to the world -- we need to project an image that we are competent -- and we seem to continually fall short on that front.
 
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