House Republican Leader Blames America First For Mideast Tensions and Unrest

Rogers says attacks not about film trailer -- (says it's President Obama's fault)

9/16/12 10:49 AM EDT

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Sunday that it's a "serious mistake" in U.S. diplomacy to insinuate that attacks against U.S. posts overseas are the result of an anti-Islamic film trailer and not "disengagement policy."

"The countries of the Middle East believe that there is a disengagement policy by the United States and that lack of leadership there -- or at least clarity on what our position is - is causing problems," Rogers said on "Fox News Sunday."

"If we all decide to rally around the video as the problem, we are going to make a serious mistake. And we are going to make I think diplomatic mistakes as we move forward if we think that’s the only reason people are showing up at our embassy and trying to conduct acts of violence."


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