Posted on 04/15/2011 2:35:20 AM PDT by Scanian
The Obama administration is scrambling to repair dam aged relations with Ameri ca's most prominent Arab ally -- and it's hard to blame the Saudis for being furious.
Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to beg for an audience in the Saudi king's palace. (Gates was making the rounds in the region -- but the Saudis at first declined to see him.) Then National Security Adviser Tom Donilon showed up again on Wednesday for a hastily arranged meet. According to The Washington Post, he hand-delivered a secret letter from President Obama to King Abdullah.
And yesterday the White House was busy heaping praise on the Saudis.
Behind the drama is growing Saudi anger at Obama's Mideast policies. Specifically, Abdullah is dismayed at the speed with which Obama threw an Arab ally, Egypt's President Mubarak, under the bus. He's also miffed at the State Department's criticism of his own policy in Bahrain.
The king was undergoing treatment in New York for various ailments typical of an 87-year-old this winter when events in North Africa started to spiral, threatening to engulf the entire Arab world. Even before his hasty return home to handle things himself, Abdullah was said to be seething at the US response. For him, the administration's call for Mubarak to hand powers over to
the Tahrir Square crowd was a personal insult.
What if I'm next? is a natural fear for a leader whose country bars women from receiving drivers' licenses and now hears Washington advocating Arab freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A very reasonable fear, IMHO.
Geez...
Samantha Powers and...
Whatever Obama isn’t effing up intentionally, he is effing up unintentionally. This loser can’t be gotten rid of soon enough by Donald Trump
What allies of the U.S.’ has he not filed or offended? He has totally alienated us from them all.
A monster of their own making.............
Apologize, of course to the proud men of F Troop.
I really do feel a modicum of sympathy for Black America, despite that they voted for him based solely on the color of his skin. There is no more racist act possible, and there should be some disciplinary consequence for such deplorable behavior... but this rump-wad is just over the top.
Wow. Black America finally gets a Black President, and it ends up being O'Botch-boy, the epic failure worst-president-ever. History will scathingly record that America's first attempt at a Black President ended in a uniquely horrific disaster, regretted, despised and reviled by the entire world.
What a useless, tits-on-a-bull crease-wipe. President Pantload.
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Not a chance. Donald Chump would be going from the pan into the fire. No more "learning on the job" novice Quislings. I would have thought you might have learned something from the O'Bungle fiasco.
If Sarah Palin runs, she'll win. Within 6 months of being sworn in, we'll be roaring back to life. That's just how she rolls. If Palin doesn't run, it's all over. Period.
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I agree except for the sympathy part for those who voted this nobama cretin into office. They should hang their heads in shame. They deserve the hope-n-change that they are getting. Unfortunately, it effects the rest of us.
nobama hates you, hates your family, hates Free America, hates Americans, hates the Constitution and hates the Bill of Rights. nobama is a hate crime foisted upon the USA. nobama is the Destroyer.
All that nobama and his loser minions do is intentional.
I read this and took notice of this part “The king was undergoing treatment in New York for various ailments typical of an 87-year-old this winter when events in North Africa started to spiral, threatening to engulf the entire Arab world. Even before his hasty return home to handle things himself, Abdullah was said to be seething at the US response.
The King was here at 87 seeking medical treatment NOT VACATIONING, and yet when his country had a problem he went home.
Our king was vacationing and started a war while on vacation, Nothing could make him come home.
-——They deserve the hope-n-change that they are getting. -——
This presumes a knowledge of reality. There is no such knowledge. At best, what is known is that “the man” is being cut down to size. That is merely rhetorical hot air, but it suffices for the present.
The coming change is going to result to burning cities. The wrath of reality will be terrible
Obama is loved Worldwide.
Unfortunately the commies and their media have ruined Sarah Palin’s image and made her into a joke. I doubt she is running. So it is Trump or Bammy Boy and his cavilling commies
Sadly, the only folks the media have made pathetic jokes of are those on the right who regurgitate their assinine anti-Palin sputum as though it were gospel.
You hearing me? Palin is running, and she and we, her supporters (who have enough brains and spine not to be led around like limp sheep by the Lying Lefty Misleadia) are going to fix this mess with or without help form the gutless jellyfish floating along in the Misleadia's backwash.
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