It would be bad enough if it just was what is seems to be - the US bumbling in Egypt because it doesn't want to totally pull the rug out from under an old "friend", regardless of how much or how little that interest should be called friend. That seems to be the situation in Egypt.

But now there is another high profile dispute that we have going in Pakistan which is contributing to our bad standing in the Muslim world. That dispute is over some so-called "diplomat" for the US that shot dead some Pakistanis (he says in self defense).

I have to say that the first mainstream news report of this incident was probably close to 2 weeks ago. My recollection is that the report was that he was claiming that he was a diplomat, had some kind of diplomatic IDs, but that the US wasn't admitting it, and that in reality, he was a "contractor."

Now, a couple weeks later, with the guy under arrest and in jail in Pakistan, the US is demanding that he be turned loose with "diplomatic immunity." Wow, did they think I wouldn't remember the earlier reports? If I think I'm confused and wonder if what I'm hearing is true, what do you think the average Pakistani thinks? If a Pakistani "diplomat" came to the US and shot dead a couple US citizens, you think we would give him "diplomatic immunity?" You have to be kidding.

It's hard to believe that the decisions that the government keeps making about their relations with these Muslim countries could be so wrong. I hope that I am wrong thinking that they are wrong. Unfortunately, I think I'm right.