Posted on 01/26/2011 12:03:20 PM PST by Nachum
To be fair, the White House is in a tough spot, as Allahpundit noted yesterday. We traditionally oppose dictatorships and support democratization movements. In places like Tunisia, where democratization efforts are championed by secular, more Western-friendly forces, that’s an easy mission for the US to back. In Egypt, however, the energy behind the political opposition comes from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist force seeking not democracy but a new theocracy. And if this sounds familiar, it should:
White House Declines to Say If US Still Supports Egypt’s Mubarak
Asked Wednesday whether the U.S. still supports Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated that Egypt remains “a strong ally” and stressed the importance of universal rights for the people of Egypt.
“This isn’t about support or opposition to leaders – it’s about the support universal rights of assembly and expression. We criticize actions that restrict those values,” Gibbs told ABC News.
Gibbs said that the White House is “still monitoring the situation” in Egypt, where Mubarak is the target of protesters opposing his authoritarian government.
In 1979, another US administration faced a similar problem in Iran, which had been ruled by the Shah with something less than a velvet glove. Claims of human rights violations by the Shah and his security forces were well-documented, although the Shah had claimed — with highly dubious merit — to be modernizing and reforming his government.
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Obam_ah _ah _ah!
With a “friend” like Stroker, who needs enemies?
and out go the “moderate Muslims”
thank you Obama for guaranteeing a major flare up of violence in the middle east.
How much tax payer foreign aid do we give these people, that ends up in the bank in Italy?
Methinks this has the potential to get extremely stenchy. But I do not see a single thing we can (or should) do about it.
That’s what I like to see - fast decision making, with a flair!
These people couldn’t close a door. I swear.
The REAL problem with this is although Egypt doesn’t very much oil the run the Suez Canel(went through there in 1981) and ALOT of stuff goes through there.
not without a poll to back ‘em up...They have no principles...just driven by lust for power...
Paging SOS Clinton, yo Hillary pack your bags
If those were right wing white euroweenies the Kenyan would declare war on them, not gibber jabber about human rights.
Either way, Hosni or the Brotherhood, he stands against Israel.
In the fall of 1963, a coup d’etat, supported by the Kennedy administration, against South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem seemed imminent. Diem had come under harsh criticism for his authoritarian rule, but at the time, former Vice President Richard Nixon noted, “the issue is not Diem or somebody better but Diem or somebody worse.” The chaos that followed Diem’s overthrow and murder on November 1, 1963 proved Nixon to have been correct.
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Iran, all over again.
♫ whoops, there goes another ... ♫
If you want to see the Holy Land, you better do it quickly.
For those of us with some gray hairs we know how bad the Jimmy Carter years were.
I guess the best we can hope for under Obama is that it will be equal to Jimmy Carter.
Though I doubt it. I believe we are in for some nasty news in the next two years—starting with $200 crude oil.
Muslim’s also have the saying: “Never waste a crisis”!!!!!
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