[Publius6961]

Well, the explanation is simple. Even national leadership can be ignorant and clueless.
Didn't Dubya refer to islam as "the religion of peace" for the first few years of his administration?
And if the leadership is clueless, what can we expect from Congress and the State Department?

Thankfully, he eventually concluded that we idjits would rather believe our own eyes and ears...

[frankiep]

That is why America is hated - she is not hated for her freedoms but for her tendency to be a 'two-faced' nation in diplomacy. To say one thing and do another. To hold one position at a point in time and then take the exact oppositte position later on.

I have to say that there is truth in this statement. I think alot of the reasons for this comes from the fact the the two major parties have completely different views on foreign policy and that it is next to impossible to maintain a consistent effort on an issue when our overall foreign policy is subject to change every few years. This gives the impression that the US has a schizophrenic foreign policy, which we do.

[Hoplite]

Stupidest
International dispute
Ever

[fzx12345]

It’s just a name...I don’t recall many protests in Atlanta when Georgia was carved out of the USSR.

[gimmeone]

Original by Destro, not Desto. My bad.