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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Of course that might not work if they already think he is a Muslim.
One thing missing from this AM “briefing” photo...no representation by the military to answer such questions as: if TSHTF what are my military options? No, Obozo will just wing it with a few platitudes I guess. Also missing, the state department, the middle east special envoy and any other who might have hands on knowledge. No, the “briefing” photo was exactly that, a photo op, your pResident on duty. Anyone else have a very sinking and bad feeling about all this??
I know many here didn’t like Condo Rice, but she would be all over this. She has ice in her veins where as Hillary has butter.
Re: Our incredibly intelligent president can’t keep up......
Don’t worry the rise in gas pump prices will keep up.
More than likely choosing what Zero wants for breakfast is moving too fast for him.
The list of things that move too quick for Obama's intellect starts at a depressingly low level and is quite long.
Obama is just not up to the job, nor does he want to be.
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