Do you understand the difference between strongly condemning and rejecting free speech because it hurts feelings, and saying you wish people wouldn't do something because it's inappropriate and wrong? In my opinion, the act of condemning and rejecting because of feelings that are hurt, is an apology. Romney, on the other hand, didn't condemn or reject, or mention people's hurt feelings at all, he simply said he wished people wouldn't do that sort of thing and he thought it was inappropriate.
Free hate speech in our country isn't the problem. Pitching our free hate speech to conservative countries in order to inflame passions and incite violence is another animal altogether. Righties have no problem condemning those in the ME for their "death to America" chants but you get all exercised over their anger when Americans smear Islam. Double standard much?
I honestly do not understand the mindset that Americans can do or say pretty much as they please about other counties, cultures, religions, etc., yet they get all sniffy when there's the inevitable blowback. Religious theocracies in the ME don't like what they
perceive as American godlessness and loose morals, and they especially don't like American meddling in their affairs. The US wouldn't dream of letting another country set up shop here and throw their weight around, yet we think it's okay to do that in the ME because we know best, dammit. The arrogance is stunning.
Now, let's apply this to the Christian bashing that goes on here by you and others from the godless left. If I say I condemn your bashing of Christians here, reject what you have to say, and apologize to my Christian friends for you hurting their feelings, is that not completely different than me saying, I wish you wouldn't do that and it's wrong?
How funny you think I'm bashing Christianity, when I've said numerous times that I'm a Catholic. I bash people and groups who pervert Christianity and use it to further their own agenda. There's an awful lot of godlessness among the religious right, with their narrow interpretation of right and wrong and their disdain for others who don't toe the hard line they've set. You just can't make up some of the crap spewed by the religious right in the name of their God.
Now, words have meaning. And unless the administration and/or the embassies have used the precise words "we APOLOGIZE for what happened, etc.", I'm not going to read an implicit apology into their condemnation. You, of course, are free to do otherwise.
