[piasa]

“By September 2012, when violent anti-American protests swept the Muslim world, claiming the lives of four members of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya and dozens of demonstrators, it became clear that we had gotten the broader Middle East badly wrong.”

Lordy, lordy, these people are slow learners.

[1010RD]

it became clear that we had gotten the broader (fill-in-the-blank) badly wrong.

Where “we” are liberals and the policy is anything.