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I'm utterly flabbergasted. This is our chief diplomat. I saw one site describe the word legitimacy hanging in the air like a rancid far and it's an apt description. How that even crosses the lips of the Secretary of State is mindboggling. And his "correction" doesn't really make it much better.
No, there is no "Rationale"...and absolutely no "legitimacy"...that any reasonable person should be able to attach oneself to in order to believe that MURDERS A BUNCH OF CARTOONISTS is in any way a logical or rational response to mocking someone's religion. None, zero, zip, zilch.
Charles Cook also had a good tweet on this:
"It’s just indefensible. The *best possible version* of his argument is that Charlie Hebdo is more of a provocation than France’s bombing!"— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke)
This is just a mind boggling statement for our SOS to make in Paris.