Has the Obama diplomacy of apology failed?

You probably think you've done something clever by not giving any reasonable choice of answers to those who fail to share your belief. You haven't, you've only made an unreasonable position seem even more unreasonable.

Afghanistan is a Muslim country, far moreso than the US is a Christian country. Actions taken by US military personnel in Afghanistan that lend themselves to the idea that our forces endorse slurs of Islam are more than merely stupid, though they are plenty enough that, they contravene the whole conceptual basis for us staying in the country as long as we have. We are not going to advance the cause of responsible government in Afghanistan by demeaning Islam, and the clearer we make it to the Afghans that we know that, the better off we are. We can't make that clear w/o apologizing when our troops screw up in their handling of Islamic religious materials, even when those materials are being misused by our enemies. There were less abusive ways to prevent the misuse of the material we recovered than the methods we used; we apologize and will diligently seek to avoid such mistakes in the future. We don't need to apologize more than that, but we do need to apologize that much.

At this point in time it is very clear to me that I will vote in November for the candidate who stands the best chance of defeating President Obama. However, if the only issues in play in the election were how our foreign and military affairs have been handled, I could very well see how I might vote for Obama, at least until his final opponents are selected and they clarify their positions - the president who served is not the candidate who ran. Asking "wife-beating" questions on SH is never good form, and asking them about Obama's conduct of foreign policy does not put the questioner in a good light.