Posted on 02/02/2011 6:07:53 PM PST by JoeA
Gas prices are on a relentless march upward. Unemployment lingers, and the economy is stagnant. In the Middle East, the streets are filled with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of a long time American ally. Mixed signals from the Vice President and Secretary of State further confuse the issue, and embolden the protestors. Finally, the President speaks, and tosses aside 30 years of American foreign policy. Egypt, 2011? Or Iran, 1979? Hard to tell, but there is the ominous feeling of having been here before.
And I feel like I've been here before
Feel like I've been here before
While the Obama administration and its back-up singers in the media make the suggestion that Barack Obama has somehow captured the essence of Ronald Reagan, the events of the past week suggest more of the aroma of Jimmy Carter. Barack Hussein Obama, who promised new relations with the Islamic world, has delivered on that promise. Under his leadership, once democratic and secular Turkey, a member of Nato, has become an Islamic republic. Lebanon has fallen under the guns of Hezbollah, supported by Iran. Yemen and Jordan are rumbling, and Syria is set for a “day of rage” being organized on Facebook. The latest sparks began in Tunisia, where a new government is struggling to maintain order. New relations, indeed.
But the lynchpin is Egypt, through whose Suez Canal one-third of all the world’s oil flows. Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt, like the Iran of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has been an island of stability in the region, and a peaceful neighbor to Israel, with whom it had waged war four times in twenty years. Not a democracy, despite the periodic elections that consistently returned Mubarak to power...
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Just as discouraging, at least, was former Sec. of State James Baker on with Brett Baer this evening. It was so obvious that Baker didn’t know his rear end from a cork pistol about what is REALLY going on in Egypt......which, I suppose, was a factor when HE was in office, in getting us to the pickle we are in now!
There just isn’t a lot to say that will be helpful really. The situation is what it is, bad. It’s a lose/lose scenario for everyone except the radical Islamics that are calmly waiting for what they know is inevitable now.
I posted a much more detailed response on another thread. If you want, read it there.
Obama is trying to start a war. His actions have no other purpose. He had a victory, and he could have presented that as a victory to “the demostrators.” Instead, he chose to incite more violence.
Remember the Cairo speech in June ‘09...
“Brotherhood” Invited To Obama Speech By U.S.
They’re just waiting to step in, just as they did in Iran.
And while the peasants in fly over country suffer, Obama and his liberal pals throw million dollar parties....
“Rome” is burning, and Obama is having fun. He is one cold dude.
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