"Disbelief at Romney Cairo Statement" pretty much sums it up.

The human disconnect couldn't have been made any clearer with this shot of Mitt Romney leaving his hastily planned press conference, as tweeted here:

Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith wrote this headline: "Foreign Policy Hands Voice Disbelief At Romney Cairo Statement"

“Bungle… utter disaster…not ready for prime time… not presidential… Lehman moment.” And that's just the Republicans.

"They were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it’s just completely blown up," said a very senior Republican foreign policy hand, who called the statement an "utter disaster" and a "Lehman moment" — a parallel to the moment when John McCain, amid the 2008 financial crisis, failed to come across as a steady leader.

It was the second time Romney has been burned by an early statement on a complex crisis: Romney denounced the Obama Administration's handling of a Chinese dissident's escape just as the Administration negotiated behind the scenes for his departure from the country.