This is far to spontaneous to be planned.
This administration has been caught flatfooted.
I totally agree...This article is complete and utter BS.
America does NOT want to see Mubarak displaced...He’s a known quantity, and in spite of being one of the sleazier whores we’re in bed with nationally, he represents sustaining the Middle-Eastern status quo.
At the end of the day, the Government would rather just bow out of the whole Israeli-Palestianian thing entirely. If they could yank every soldier out of Iraq and Afghanistan without the whole house of cards coming down they would.
As long as the Middle-East remains fragmented, distrustful of one another, and in a defensive fetal position, our oil lifeline is not threatened...Once we have a wave of Muslim revolutions hit, oil skyrockets, and our economy grinds to a halt.
Now no matter what some of our more fervent conspiracy theorists here believe, Obama and company don’t stay up at night fantasizing about how to green the planet. Just like any other politicians they feed their base the minimum necessary to win re-election support and hold on to power.
Obama knows that if oil spikes to $8 a gallon, he’s a one term president (if he isn’t already.) “Drill baby drill” will become a bipartisan mantra, and China and the US will face off over the remaining exploitable oil sources, and not necessarily just diplomatically.
It’s in NOBODY’s interest to have a more volatile Middle-East.
Except the Muslims’.
**This is far to spontaneous to be planned.
This administration has been caught flatfooted**
Now that’s the truth!
It looks like it started spontaneously, but it sounds as if all of the troublemakers (imams, Muslim Brotherhood, Iranians) are rushing in to try and take control of the chaos. As to this administration being flatfooted, I think that's the best interpretation. I think Obama secretly likes the idea of religious revolutionaries. He's a Muslim-sympathizing community organizer, after all. And, he hates Israel, to boot. He won't support Mubarak.
I tend to agree. They were complely unaware. Even Hillary looked like a deer in the headlights. Ring ring, there’s that damn 3 a.m. phone again....honey, you gonna get that?