Amy Davidson on Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony: 

…by the end she looked like a woman who thought that she was stooping to appear in this venue. The question now is whether that approach suits a 2016 candidate well, or badly.

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Obama’s Bumpy Road on Foreign Policy: Amy Davidson on the President’s speech at the U.N. on Tuesday: http://nyr.kr/Qxyrua

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Hisham Matar on the attack in Benghazi and the ultra-religious groups on Libya’s extreme right: http://nyr.kr/Q5f2xH

John Cassidy breaks down the order of events in Cairo, Libya, and the U.S. over the past 24 hours, and considers how they might affect the Romney and Obama’s campaigns: http://nyr.kr/OHoY02

There will be plenty of time to discuss the rights and wrongs. But before getting into all that, I thought it might be worth setting down how the past twenty-four hours unfolded. With events taking place in three countries, on two continents, there has been a lot of confusion about who said what when. Here’s a quick timeline I put together from the Web. As far as I can see, Romney doesn’t come out of it looking any better….

Polarizing Attacks, at Home and Abroad - Jon Lee Anderson on the attacks in Benghazi and Cairo: http://nyr.kr/QRslkt

These new attacks on diplomatic outposts highlight the continuing uncertainties of the region’s evolving relationship with the United States, a result of the volatile forces unleashed in the so-called Arab Spring that began early last year. In the continuing tug of war by competing groups, not all of them friendly to the U.S., over political power, there may well be more unwelcome surprises to come…

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