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The way the Republicans handled this was very immature. Hours after this incident happened Republicans were calling Obama "spineless" and saying he "wasn't leader". This was a routine diplomatic issue, and it was properly and quickly handled exactly as it should be. A quick investigation was conducted, no wrong doing was found, so they were released.
What was the other option? Immediately launching an attack on Iran? Threatening them?
After they were released the Republicans tried to make an issue out of the United States apologizing over the incident. This is what diplomatic countries do - Something happens, we were in the wrong, so we apologized for it. Oddly enough, while Republicans were up in arms about us "apologizing", they seem to have failed to notice when an United States Air Force plane hit a plane near China an had an emergency landing in China, the then Republican president apologized for the incident.
The Republican party keeps trying to make issues out of non issues in an attempt to make the Obama administration look bad. And it's not working. The Benghazi investigations have been larger and longer and cost more than the 9/11 commission and the Warren Commission. This is utterly ridiculous at this point.
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