You buying it? Me neither

Here is the problem with the way the State Department operates: it takes any old words from the world's most repulsive figures at face value, clinging to some shred of ephemeral "evidence" that the one so uttering has had a change of heart and that therefore policy can proceed on the basis of his latest flimsy attempt at a reversal of what he's previously on record as saying.  Latest case in point: the department's statement about Morsi's backtracking of his 2010 remarks about Jews.