It’s not the fact that Hakim was an ally. It’s the fact of the SPEED with which the WH issued a response to the death of a FOREIGN OFFICIAL, while the death of an AMERICAN soldier and injury to another received a rote sentence DAYS after the first attack on American soil by Muslims since 9/11!!! >:-(
We need to pick our battles. The bottom line is, al-Hakim was an ally and this quick statement was prudent and proper.
His silence on the murder of William Long was neither. It was an utter disgrace. But that doesn’t make this statement wrong.