forth in the correct political context. this is a larger argument that mitt romney is trying to make. he believes the obama administration has not been tough enough with the marginal allies of the united states, in particular. he has been critical on how libya was handled and been critical on how the syria situation has been handled. it fits in with a larger message push that romney has been doing. when you consider the moment in time when he did the release, we didn t know all the facts on the ground, the white house, by the way, on that statement, they don t stand behind the statement of the embassy in cairo, either. a white house official was careful to tell me they never approved that statement, and they were sympathetic as to why the embassy put out that statement. there was a hope that it would quell the violence in the moment and be enough to get the protesters to back off the embassy. they were thinking in the moment