But he didn't apologize. He did go to EXPLAIN, but it isn't likely a rare occurance to explain things to foreigners.
If there was an American who was imprisoned in a foreign country, and we had doubts over whether they received a fair trial, I would expect that we could pay for someone from that country to fly over here and explain it to us so we could be sure justice was being served. And I doubt anybody here would complain.
"But he didn't apologize. He did go to EXPLAIN, but it isn't likely a rare occurance to explain things to foreigners.
If there was an American who was imprisoned in a foreign country, and we had doubts over whether they received a fair trial, I would expect that we could pay for someone from that country to fly over here and explain it to us so we could be sure justice was being served. And I doubt anybody here would complain."
“If there was an American who was imprisoned in a foreign country, and we had doubts over whether they received a fair trial, I would expect that we could pay for someone from that country to fly over here and explain it to us so we could be sure justice was being served. And I doubt anybody here would complain.”
I suppose that you have a point. But don’t you think that just going there to “explain” our system is an apology of sorts. Certainly it’s a “defense” of our American way of life, which I would think that the Saudi king by now understands if he has read our Constitution and our Bill Of Rights. I think that most of the problem with Islam is that its believers think that their laws are naturally superior to, and should override, all man-made laws including those of equal rights. And I doubt that they will ever change even if we send an envoy to “defend” every US law that every Muslim violates. Every American traveler who enters a foreign country is warned that they are bound by the laws of that country, not by US law. If I’m caught carrying a gun in Mexico or spitting on the sidewalk in Singapore, I can’t expect an official of that government to travel to the US to justify their laws.
Finally, my quarrel is not really with the Colorado AG as much as with our State Department. I believe that it is arrogant and deft to the desires and needs of most Americans.