Posted on 01/28/2011 11:19:51 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Events in the Middle East are moving too fast for the Obama administration to think it can get away with Plan A and Plan B reaction strategies according to the regimes or leaders it wants to keep in and out of power.
Consider the response of the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to Hezbollah tightening its grip on power in Lebanon this week - Washington might have to pull its funding worth hundreds of millions for Lebanon, her office warned.
Advertisement: Story continues below But as democracy demonstrators were confronted by thousands of baton-wielding policemen in the streets in Cairo, there was no mention of pulling the $US2 billion-plus cheque that Washington writes for the octogenarian President, Hosni Mubarak, each year.
Instead, a rhetorical nugget that Mubarak's mouthpieces would use in their defence - ''our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable'' and then some namby-pamby words about how Mubarak was ''looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people''.
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Ice cream and snow-cones, STAT!
An asthmatic snail moves to fast for this occupier of the White House.
Carter lit the match in 1979 with Iran and Obama threw gasoline on the floor with his apology tour of 2009.
We are about to see hell break loose in the Middle East and we have a front row seat.
Time to schedule another vacation...or a tee-time at least.
[An asthmatic snail moves to fast for this occupier of the White House. ]
Except when it comes to domestic policy that is set to destroy this country.
Moving too fast and all this just before the weekend which begins at noon on friday.
Good point.
Wish we had a President with backbone
Overheard at the WH...Obama to Bill Daley: “just tell me which side is the muslim one...I make a rule of standing with the muslims when the sh!t hits the fan. It simplifies life greatly.”
Some things you just can't count on the school teachers union and small-town activists in Berkeley to do for you.
Obama channeling Reagan? Hardly
Adequate state department funding would have prevented the backlog.
Tell Egypt to hold on. Sarah Palin only wanted to buy Egyptian Cotton Sheets. Don’t confuse it being so close to sounding like “War on your streets”.
the preident is so-o-o-o intelligent,
mo’ intelligent any republican.
He is probably thinking WWSD (What Would Sarah do)
... but seriously folks,
This is probably one of his goals. If he is a Muslim traitor infiltrator (and I think he is) then he WANTS this to be happening there
He’s got plenty of time. By my calculations he has 278 days before he can’t break Carter’s record.
Celebrate the glorious soldiers of allah, striving to make the world a beter place.
The response would result in a counter-attack, driving the jihadi-boyz back home, and Israel would follow it up with a ground war occupation to keep the peace.
Most Egyptians would praise anything for that to happen.
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