You just can't help this, can you? No wonder you're so sympathetic to Maines.
The point is that it was even less appropriate to make these comments on foreign soil when war was imminent. That's what Clinton did. That's an abhorrent choice for an American standing on the public stage.
Then, to try to excuse it as something she would have only said there and not here makes her sound like an even bigger hypocrite than before.
On the other hand, you're advocating hypocrisy, so maybe I'm getting a handle on all of these crocodile tears you're sheddin'.