Comments about ‘In our opinion: U.S. apology to Pakistan appropriate, necessary to resolve diplomatic impasse’

I am sure that we will hear from many on the right that we should not have apologized. (or apologize for anything we ever do)

Can you imagine the outrage (rightfully so) had the Pakistani army accidentally killed 24 of our soldiers?

Look, when you wrong someone, you owe them an apology. It is certainly NOT a sign of weakness.

Hopefully that is what you teach your kids.

I wonder how ol' Mitt "No Apologies" Romney would handle this?

In this case there is enough blame to go around. But we had to apologies out of necessity.

In general apologizing for wrongs is the right thing to do. This is true for nations and for individuals. Many conservatives are upset that president Obama has apologized to various nations for past wrongs. Saying sorry is better than going to war or having a host of other nations who wrong cooperate with us.

Romney is wrong for saying and believing we should never apologize. It's much less expensive than going to war, in terms of money, and lives ruined and lost.

No doubt it becomes much easier to accept our apology accompanied with a check for 8billion $$$!

@fitness freak
"8billion $$$?"

where did you get that number?

Everytime Obama(or Hillary) apologizes, the world's dictators laugh! Ask Russia's Putin!

Well mountainman, if we are doing things differently than a dictator would have done it, then we're on the right track. Dictators never apologize, you are correct.

Obama's not the communist, socialist, facist, muslim dictator the right wants to make him out to be but Romney - would never apologize.

I think Mountain Mans comments sum it all up. He would rather America use the morals and judgement of Dictators as the measure for what we should and should not do. I frankly could care less what Putin, or any other Dictator thinks. In fact, if they think we are doing the wrong thing, we are probably doing the right thing.

And the fact that there are now three less Dictators, and soon a fourth in Syria, and add to that a lot of terrorist that have lost power during Obama's first 3.5 years is probably that the rest of the world has had enough of caring what these dictators think.

When was the last time you heard dear old mr Chavez mocking America like he formally did. I think ignoring what Dictators think is probably the right course for our country.