Posted on 03/28/2011 2:10:05 PM PDT by wbarmy
A young Egyptian journalist named Merette Ibrahim has come to question visiting Defense Secretary Bob Gates at a roundtable discussion. She’s passionately idealistic about Egypt’s new democracy, and you might think she would be enthusiastic about President Obama, who supports the political revolution underway here. But she isn’t: She says that Egyptians find Obama and his policies confusing. Welcome to a growing club. This is a president who promotes change but is failing to articulate it in a way that would convince young Arabs. The Egyptian journalists I met here cited these contradictions: Obama is against military intervention in Libya until he’s for it; he supports Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak until he says it’s time for him to resign immediately; he promises a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations but delivers nothing....The best outsider’s comment I’ve heard about the scope of change comes from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, of all people. In response to my question Thursday, he likened the convulsions shaking the Arab world to the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I or the end of the French mandate in the Levant after World War II. Now, think about that analogy for a moment: What’s the comparable fallen empire whose client states are now in retreat? Why, that would seem to be America. The regimes that have collapsed so far have been aligned with American hegemony. As the revolution spreads to Syria and hopefully Iran, this formula may change. But Barak’s historical analogy should worry Obama.
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“Egypt’s new democracy”? This is a supposedly leading journalist? Democracy? Muslim Brotherhood in bed with military junta = democracy. What was Ignatius thinking when he wrote this? Oh, he wasn’t?
Harm the nationals allied with us.
Help those against us.
What’s so hard to understand? /s
Harm the nationals allied with us.
Help those against us.
What’s so hard to understand? /s
Harm the nationals allied with us.
Help those against us.
What’s so hard to understand? /s
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