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U.S. 'Paid a Price' on Egypt
Newsweek ^

Posted on 10/07/2011 7:48:44 AM PDT by AfricanChristian

n a blunt assessment, President Obama’s first national security adviser told a private audience this week that there is a “chasm” between the United States and its Gulf Arab allies that has yet to heal since the White House very publicly ushered Egypt’s president out of power in February.

Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, who served as national security adviser in 2009-10, told a private meeting at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the United States’ Persian Gulf allies interpret the president’s handling of the Egyptian revolution as a sign that Washington will dump their monarchies or governments if enough demonstrators take to their streets, according to a recording of the speech reviewed by The Daily Beast.

“We have paid a price,” Jones said of the decision to call for Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. “Our policy with regard to Mubarak as interpreted by some of our closest Arab allies in the Gulf has not gone over well.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabworld; egypt; us

1 posted on 10/07/2011 7:48:54 AM PDT by AfricanChristian
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No we will be paying a price from now on, obummer proved to the world, that NATO would throw any and everybody ass under the bus. American agreements are just so much wiping paper.
2 posted on 10/07/2011 7:54:11 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: AfricanChristian

all in the interest of obama’s jihad

against israel.


3 posted on 10/07/2011 7:55:14 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: AfricanChristian


4 posted on 10/07/2011 7:55:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama's secret: Once you learn to fake sincerity you've got it made)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL! thanks for the laugh!


5 posted on 10/07/2011 7:58:32 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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