Today, the anniversary of September 11th was celebrated in Cairo, Benghazi and Yemen with attacks on American diplomatic facilities by mobs supposedly upset with some videos that were made by Egyptian Christians who were in the United States. The consulate in Libya (Benghazi) was looted and burned and one American was murdered by the mob. In Yemen RPGs were used to attack the embassy by the "impromptu" mob. In Cairo, the attackers scaled the walls of the embassy compound but never got into the building as the marine guards shot into the air to dissuade them from coming too close. Egyptian government forces did nothing to stop or limit the attack. The Obama response to these attacks was to apologize to the crowd for any insult to their sensibilities as a result of the videos.
On the other hand, here is the statement issued by Mitt Romney on today's events:
I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. 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.
The difference is clear. We can either have a leader like Romney whose response is to protect America and Americans or a loser like Obama whose instinctive response is to find that America is in the wrong. That's correct, Obama's initial response was that those who used their right of free speech here in America are at fault and the crazy mob actions (which seem to have been planned to take place in unison) are not the fault of the Islamists. No, the mob attacks and Obama apologizes.
Even Jimmy Carter would have had a stronger response.
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