It represented American weakness, a retreat on American values. And the bigger point here is that when American officials make apologies to the Muslim world so we don't offend Muslim feelings by backtracking on American values, it shows weakness and invites more trouble.
Fleischer discusses the implications of the embassy's statement and argues that it reflects weakness in American foreign policy.
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If they were between people, this relationship has been bad for a long time.
Well, that's the right thing to say and we should not take sides. We have two bad sides to take a choice between but we did take sides previously.
President has created vacuums all around the world because of what you just said. He's not wanted to exercise American leadership.
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