Romney poses as ambassador is killed

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Juan Cole; prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)
By Juan ColeInformed Comment12 September 12
redictably, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the tiny demonstrations in Cairo and Benghazi by Muslim militants. The Benghazi mob turned violent in clashes with police and the consulate ended up being burned and the US ambassador and three staffers were killed.

Romney seized on the frantic tweets of the Cairo embassy issued *before the attacks*, which condemned the sleazy Youtube videos by American Islamophobes that had provoked the ire of the crowds, as evidence that the Obama administration was siding with the attacking mobs. 
First of all, really? Romney is trying to get elected on the back of a dead US diplomat? 
Second of all, really? He thinks the State Department thought the attack on themselves was justified? 
Third of all, really? Romney is selective. When it comes to Christianity, Romney decries a "war on religiion." But apparently he thinks there *should* be a war on Islamic religion. (Except that Romney hopimself condemned Terry Jones's Qur'an burning a couple of years ago.) 
Romney's intervention (he is just a civilian at the moment) in American foreign policy is unwise and risky, not to mention distasteful.
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