[RBroadfoot]

"Suthers didn't apologize. Schlussel is lying."

According to my dictionary:
apologize - vi: to make an apology
apology - n 1a: a formal justification :DEFENSE b: EXCUSE
2: an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

Schlussel is correct in characterizing Suthers explanation of Turki's conviction as an apology under the the first definition of "apology". She's wrong, however, in asserting that it is completely unnecessary to make such an apology. In some cases, perhaps this one, it is good to make a formal case to justify one's actions.

[r9etb]

Here is what Ms. Schlussel says:

In an utter display of American weakness and shame, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers traveled to Saudi Arabia to apologize. Apologize for the American justice system and virtually everything else that America stands for.

Suthers did exactly the opposite. Ms. Schlussel is lying.

[goldstategop]

Justice is not something that needs to be defended. Kidnapping, false imprisonment and rape are universal crimes in the eyes of mankind. Unless something has changed, that didn't require Suthers to put in a personal appearance in front of King Abdullah. His office could have just had the State Department send the Saudis a fax about the case. And it would have spared Americans from looking like a bunch of dhimmis who need Saudi permission to do anything in their own country.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[CharlesWayneCT]

You have a bizarre dictionary, most have the common usage as the first definition, and the uncommon usage as the 2nd.

But in either case, you would be very disingenous to suggest Debbie was using the "formal justification" definition when she said we "apologized" (which I'm not sure is a valid form of "apology" for that definition -- "apology" as defined by your "justification" definition is a NOUN, and doesn't have an "apologized" form).

When you have to appeal to improper forms of non-standard definitions in order to justify what has been written, you have ceded the point that Debbie was being deliberately misleading.