The Republican candidate for president criticizes the Obama Administration, but apparently doesn't
know what the capital of the country is that he's criticicing them for, nor that it was the US consulate in that country he knows so little about that was attacked, not an embassy.
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Romney gets capital of Libya wrong in press conf criticizing Obama on foreign policy
By John Aravosis on 9/12/2012
Mitt Romney got the capital of Libya wrong in his opportunistic statement this morning criticizing the President about his handling of the attacks against the US embassy in Cairo and the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Romney referred in his statement to the "embassies" and particularly to "our embassy at Benghazi, Libya." He made the mistake three times, so it wasn't just a slip of the lip.
Any first year international relations student knows that our diplomatic offices in the capital are "embassies," and our offices in cities that are not the capital are "consulates."
This means that Romney either had no idea what the capital of Libya was when he said it was Benghazi (it's Tripoli, obviously), or he had no idea what the difference was between "embassies" and "consulates," which is so basic Diplomacy 101 that it's frightening that Mitt Romney wants to be commander in chief in four months and had no idea about the difference.
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Let's hope a future "President Romney," God forbid, does a fact-check before he starts bombing the wrong city.
http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/romney-gets-capital-of-libya-wrong-in.html
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who knew? 