That idiot was on so many sides that whoever came out on top he could
say he supported. He was backing Mubarak, the State Department was
totally lost, the intel community had no clue and then Zero backed the
protesters and then he backed the Army and then back to backing Suleiman
and then Mubarak again. He still looks like a deer in the headlights
without a clue. Now that they are doing something in Egypt he will
claim he was for them all the time whatever he chose to say. He is
still almost as much of a disaster in foreign policy as Carter was and
in general even worse than Carter as president - and that is the worst
we have ever had. The policies he has offered in the past few days
cover every bit of the map. What is he going to do about the Copts
now. Got any idea how to deal with that little problem? As usual,
totally clueless.
On 02/12/2011 11:26 AM, Tommy News wrote:
Guess who looks better today?
Obama plays Egypt just right, backing protesters over dictator Mubarak
BY Thomas M. Defrank
Egyptians celebrated the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak in
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WASHINGTON - Republicans struggled with a pesky intramural squabble
Friday over budget cuts as President Obama celebrated the remarkable
rise of democracy in Egypt.
Guess who looks better today?
After a shaky beginning, Obama and his foreign policy handlers seem to
have gotten this crisis right. Hosni Mubarak and his repressive
baggage are gone, but America's relationship with a critical Mideast
ally and partner in the war on global terror remains intact.
Moreover, Obama has positioned himself as a soulmate for the hundreds
of thousands of ordinary Egyptians who stormed the Arab country's
streets in peaceful protest instead of another American leader playing
ball with an aging autocrat.
"They got off to a slow and cautious start," a prominent foreign
policy expert told the Daily News, "but they ended up on the right
side of history."
While Republicans squabbled over budget cuts, President Obama
celebrated the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (Kaster/AP).
What Henry Kissinger liked to call the forbidden fruit of foreign
policy is a double-edged sword for Presidents - unpredictable,
delicate and always tricky to navigate.
Ask Jimmy Carter. When he couldn't get the Iranian mullahs to free
American diplomats in 1979, he looked weak. That became a metaphor
dooming his reelection against Ronald Reagan a year later.
In this case, Obama has burnished his image, in large measure because
the outcome ended well. Mubarak is history and a fragile democracy is
in sight. Violence was relatively light, and the military-run
transitional government's commitment to historic and unrigged
elections in September is probably inviolable.
In the end, Obama tilted toward what he calls "core values" instead of
the geopolitical stability Mubarak's dictatorial rule guaranteed.
Obama aides point out that the hopeful outcome wasn't mere luck.
Vice President Biden dug deep into his Rolodex to nudge longtime
friends and counterparts.
U.S. diplomats worked other Arab leaders to persuade Mubarak he was
done. Senior military commanders tapped longstanding ties with
Egyptian generals to counsel caution with demonstrators.
Politically, Obama was showcased as dealing with an authentic world
crisis instead of worrying about his intense but below-the-radar
campaign for a second term.
Meanwhile, a major conservative gathering of Obama-bashers in
Washington was crowded off the airwaves by the iconic images from
Cairo's Tahrir Square.
"How can you complain about him over this?" a top Republican warrior
moaned. "It's no contest."
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/02/12/2011-02-12_obama_plays_egypt_just_right_backing_protesters_over_dictator_mubark.html#ixzz1DlKsZr78
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