Posted on 08/04/2013 10:26:34 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticized Sunday the West's interference in the Middle East, describing it as a "bull in a china shop."
In an interview with RT, Medvedev said he agreed with the interviewer that the West often purposefully pushed whole nations to the point of no return, beyond which it was very difficult to convince the warring sides to attempt negotiations.
"Our Western partners sometimes behave like a bull in a china shop — they squeeze in, crush everything and then don't know what to do next. I often find myself astonished at their analysts and how inconsistent their projects are that they push through by their superiors and at the outcomes they get," Medvedev told RT.
"If we're being completely honest, what good did the Arab Spring bring to the Arab world? Did it bring freedom? A little, at best. In most countries it led to endless bloodshed, regime change, and continuous unrest. I have no illusions about that either. As for the pushing that you mentioned, yes, unfortunately, that's true," Medvedev said.
What happened in Libya and Iraq and what is happening in Syria show that there is a forceful dismantling of a country's political system under the guise of the fight for national interests, an intrusion into its internal affairs and the installation a loyal political regime, Medvedev said.
"Nothing good came out of it, by the way. We know what happened and we can see what is happening. The situation in Iraq is very volatile — dozens of people are killed every day ... Of course, we are doing our best to support Iraq. We meet with Iraqi leaders; we sympathize with them, because we have a long history of contacts with them," the prime minister said.
"Libya was torn apart by this war, and there are still regions where the central authorities have not managed to regain full control, just like we expected. This is not to mention what happened to [Libyan leader Muammar] Qaddafi. This was horrible. This is another stain on the reputation of the people who initiated this military operation," Medvedev said.
Syria is also on the brink of a similar war, the prime minister said.
"Basically, there's a civil war raging in the country; it's a disaster. We have always believed that the power to solve Syria's problems should lie with its people. But the active interference that we now see might potentially lead to the same problems and create yet another unstable country in a permanent state of civil war," Medvedev said.
This disconnect between the sentiments of the vast majority of Americans, even most of those deluded enough to have helped elect the Pretender, and the government is leading us into a sort of foreign policy schizophrenia and helps explain why the effort to cover up the who's and why's of the Benghazi Massacre is running at a pitch a thousand times anything that occurred during Watergate. If the press was not so fully accomplice with the Democratic Party most people might notice how far things have gone and there could be hew and cry for heads to roll. As it is we are sheep being led to slaughter.
“Except the Mythbusters proved that a bull in a china shop doesn’t actually knock anything over.
So there!”
Perhaps so, but Medvedev may be the little bird that told us about the 800 pound gorilla in the room. America can’t continue to kick at every dog that barks at it. You don’t have any dog in some fights. Sometimes, you’ll have to take the bull by the horns, and let sleeping dogs lie, before you’ve gone to the dogs.
Unfortunately, Obama is an albatross around your neck. He’s as stubborn as a mule. A leopard that can’t change his spots, and he’s turning America into a paper tiger. That’s what voters get, when they buy a pig in a poke. Fortunately, he’ll soon be a lame duck.
The author is correct, sad to say.
This seems to be the case to me also with regard to state. As for the CIA, I haven’t seen enough to make the case one way or another on this topic.
I do agree with your comments regarding push-back or the lack there-of.
Diplomacy goes on as it always has, with churlish name calling, posturing, feints, thrusts and parries, all of which have meaning to the experienced eye. Our president, however, and the gaggle of fools he chooses to surround himself with, stand wide-eyed, confused and mystified. Children living in a fantasy world, they fumble to find meaning in a reality they stubbornly refuse to accept. The emperor is not only unclothed, he’s clueless beyond comprehension.
Unfortunately for us, “the jig is up, the goose is cooked, the fat is in the fire, and the cat is out of the bag”.
(James Thurber, “The Thirteen Clocks”, 1950)
The late Bill Buckley once predicted that unseating Taiwan on the U.N. Security Council and replacing it with the Communist Chinese regime would be like a China in the Bull Shop.
“...like a China in the Bull Shop.”
Good one!
That was Chairman Bill’s line.
Buckley on why Sen. Edward M. Kennedy refused to appear on “Firing Line”:
“Why does baloney reject the grinder!”
;^)
Very true, and so sad.
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