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Originally Posted by whell

Uh, no. Its one thing to make statements in the midst of a campaign or political discourse. Its quite another to stand up in the Senate in the midst of a war and proclaim repeatedly that "We lost." Its quite to apologize for the actions of your country nearly every foreign trip you undertake. It is behavior that is exemplary of a set of beliefs that don't belong in positions of leadership in this country.

Truth hurts, don't it? The only winner in the Iraq War was Iran and we did the fighting for them.

As for criticizing our country abroad, I think the more correct characterization of what he did in Cairo (and perhaps elsewhere) is to say "I understand why you may feel the way you do." FWIW, the key to diplomacy is understanding where others are "coming from." It's beats the shit out the proud, ignorant cowboy ethic that preceded him IMHO (and in the opinion of nearly all of our critical allies in the "War on Terror" BTW).