Posted on 07/02/2013 1:16:44 PM PDT by beaversmom
The withdrawal of support for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by President Obama is the latest bit of bad news for Egypt's leader and the Muslim Brotherhood movement that catapulted him to power as the country's first freely elected head of state.
The US hasn't publicly abandoned Mr. Morsi, whom the State Department has repeatedly hailed as a democratically elected leader. But via anonymous spokesmen it's done everything but, and the distancing has come in record time – just three days since mass protests broke out.
When protests against President Hosni Mubarak broke out in January 2011, the US struggled mightily to hold back the tide. On day two, Vice President Joe Biden famously insisted that Mubarak was no dictator (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding) and that he should remain in office. It was only on day five that Obama's people began muttering about the need for "reform" and an unspecified "orderly transition" of some sort. Only on day 17, when Mubarak's fate was written, did the administration publicly say that Mubarak must go.
But Obama and his aides have been learning on the job since 2011 and it is, after all, a new Middle East. They now recognize that protests the size of those that broke out on June 30 against Morsi have a momentum of their own. (The video just below of anti-Morsi protesters was shot and released by a member of the Egyptian military, speaking volumes.) The experience of once trying – and failing – to hold back the tide is a wonderful teacher.
And besides, the US is far less invested in Morsi. Mubarak was America's man in Cairo for over 30 years. Morsi, in power for less than a year and member of a movement that is ultimately hostile to US regional objectives, doesn't have...
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TOO LATE
I keep expecting globalist Muslim Mohammad Elbaradai to reappear.
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Just like the Kurds we allowed to be slaughtered.
Any way the wind blows....
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Showing the world what a phenomenol leader he is.
What difference, at this point, does it make that H! was ever SoS?
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“The Obama administration is urging Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy to call early elections and has warned the Egyptian military that it risks losing U.S. aid if it carries out a military coup amid the political crisis, senior administration officials tell CNN.
At the same time, the officials stopped short of saying Morsy should step down immediately.
“We are saying to him, ‘Figure out a way to go for new elections,’” one senior official said. “That may be the only way that this confrontation can be resolved.”
The White House disputed the characterization the administration was “urging” Morsy to call early elections.
National Security Council Spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, “It is not accurate that the United States is ‘urging’ President Morsy to call early elections. President Obama has encouraged President Morsy to take steps to show that he is responsive to the concerns of the Egyptian people and underscored that the current crisis can only be resolved through a political process. As the President has made clear since the revolution, only Egyptians can make the decisions that will determine their future.”
Face it, Barry's Bunch don't know what they're doing, and they don't care. They support Morsi, they don't support Morsi. They quietly back a military government, they tell the military to stand down. They support the protesters and democracy, they're having second thoughts about these protests and still back the Muslim Brotherhood.
Too damn late!!
"WE ARE AT WAR WITH EASTASIA. ...OR IS THAT EURASIA?"
Indirect?! It has been quite direct, and not even well hidden!
It couldn’t have been easy to create a situation where ALL THREE SIDES in the Egyptian conflict hate Obama, but he’s managed to do it.
The moderates protesting for freedom are angry at Obama because, from the first, he’s supported Mohamed Morsi against them.
Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood now despise him because he withdrew his support for them just when it was needed the most.
And the Egyptian Army — the only group that can restore stability to Egypt — must be beyond disgust with Obama after he threatened them with a loss of military aid if they try to take over and save their country.
Who will the Egyptians turn to in their hour of need? Maybe Russia.
obama is just tying up loose ends. Morsi, like Stevens knows where the bodies are buried and now his usefulness is over. Time for him to go.
Maybe it’s just occurred to President You Didn’t Build that he, too, could be the subject of massed marches.
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