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Consulate. i mean, ive been to libya since the liberation, and the group -- the allegation i was with was very well received. i mean, this is a -- it is a mob, but its not representative of libyan society. neither is the mob in egypt representative of egyptian society. now, we see that imagery on tv, and we think, well, this is the whole country or this is most people. it really isnt. and i think its important, you know, for us to just acknowledge that, you know, if the rest of the world judged ...

But the underlying dynamics of the election are no longer seen as being enough for romney. he trails obama in the polls and has for basically the entire campaign. he received little to no bump from his convention and watched obama enjoy a significant polling bounce out of his. the economy just isnt proving sufficient to beat obama. that means that the romney campaign strategy isnt proving sufficient to beat obama, which means they need to change it on the fly. when campaigns are losing, they get...

It should be pointed out that ten libyan security guards reportedly died defending the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi. thousands of libyans staged counterprotests today in a show of o support for the united states. many of them held signs thanking ambassador stevens for his service, and the libyan government was quick and forceful in its condemnation of the attacks. that, at least, is the situation in libya. in egypt, the conditions are much different. more protests against the offending an...

The romney campaign isnt run by amateurs. they knew this statement was incendiary. they knew it would change the campaign, and presumably, they knew it was wrong. it conflates a statement from a terrified staffer in the egyptian gas embassy, who was trying to calm a potentially angry mob with the obama administration. it conflates unrest in egypt with the murder of an american diplomat among others in libya. and it accuses the obama administration of something that they not only didnt do, but th...

The obama campaign is driving. he doesnt have less foreign policy experience than, say, barack obama had before, you know, he worked in international business, hes talked to people at a high level in that world for a long time, as much as bill clinton, as many presidents did, before taking office. i think theres a bind on republican foreign policy right now, which is that in their heart, what they want to say is that who lost egypt, who lost libya. you know, we need to be in a muscular way retak...

Constantly gloss over. in egypt, what we have is the product of a real revolution. this government really represents the people. it was a real revolution, done over the objections, essentially, of the united states. mubarak was our true friend and ally for 30 years. in libya, what you had happen was, initially a revolution that then was intercepted with a military intervention, and what was put in place is largely a government of expatriates, who dont necessarily represent the country. and youre...

Through the motivations of the various factions and shadowy militant groups that are currently vying for power. and the outcome, who wins and who loses these struggles, could decide the very shape of american foreign policy in the decades to come. middle east with an egypt that is friendly to american interests is very different than middle east with an egypt that is not. here to help us make sense of all of this, is hillary man lever, and a former foreign service officer, who was twice statione...

When i was in egypt, it was typical for the ambassador to go to cairo to alexandria pretty regularly. it would be a normal thing too. >> and spencer, do we know anything, or anything we feel is firm about the motivations behind the attack? some people thought, at least, initially, it was about the video. then there seemed to be some indication, maybe, that the protests over the video was cover for a attack that had been long pre-planned. its not clear if they knew the ambassador was going to be ...

In egypt was this mysterious video made by someone who may or may not be named sam bacile, who may or may not be israeli, who may or may not tricked his crew and dubbed in anti-muslim propaganda after the movie was done, and who is definitely really terrible of making movies. you watched the clip of this thing online. its a low-budget, badly acted, completely ridiculous amateur production. its a joke, a deadly joke. but at the heart of the political furor today is a 99-word statement released by...

Egypt and libya, attacks that left four americans the dead. romney hastily released a statement late last night that read, "im outraged by the attacks on american diplomatic missions in america and egypt and the attack on a american consulate worker in benghazi. its disgraceful that obama administration first response was to condemn attacks on our diploma ikts ic missions, but to sympathize with the protesters." some republicans have been quick to defend him. south carolina senator jim demint re...