Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” in discussing President Barack Obama’s absence at the Paris unity rally, Mary Matalin said, “Of course the whole world thinks we are idiots now and the culmination of that was the Paris thing.”

Matalin said “I can’t even describe how this appears to not only our friends and our allies, but to our enemies. It epitomizes the action component to the philosophy that weakness invites provocation.”

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