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Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland charges that President Barack Obama's foreign policy has led to a perception of U.S. weakness abroad. The Georgia Republican and House Intelligence Committee member says our government needs to take more aggressive action.

As he prepared to return to Washington, Westmoreland traced problems back to what he calls a "foreign policy of apology."

"I think it hurt our relationships and was a sign of weakness all over the world.  And I think it's still a sign of weakness that we've not had any more aggressive response to what happened," said Westmoreland.

With anti-American riots now also raging in Thailand and Pakistan, the White House faces fresh questions about whether the administration ignored or missed warnings from Libyan officials that they were having trouble controlling violence before Americans were killed at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

White House press secretary Jay Carney says an active assessment is underway into what happened.

"This is a matter that's under investigation in terms of what precipitated the attacks, what the motivations of the attackers were, what role the video played in that," said Carney.

Intelligence sources have told FOX News that before the attack, the CIA had assessed eastern Libya as deteriorating because of prior attacks on diplomatic and western targets in Benghazi.

Westmoreland, who is the only Georgian on the House Intelligence Committee, thinks the assault on the U.S. consulate indicates far more than a spontaneous response to an online anti-Islam film.

"We can't continue to put our head in the sand and not realize that we've got some problems in the Middle East," said Westmoreland.