Posted on 07/05/2013 6:28:18 AM PDT by Innovative
The 2011 Arab uprisings presented the United States with a historic opportunity to take a clear stand on the side of freedom and democracy and strengthen its own standing in the process. Incredibly, the Obama administration has blundered and stumbled, with a response marked by timidity and caution.
But when the government went after that same civil society, arresting and then convicting 43 members of nongovernmental organizations -- including 16 Americans -- and sentencing them to prison terms on sham charges, the U.S. kept its voice low, to the dismay of its friends.
The Obama administration has been so timid, so eager to stay out of the fray, that a few weeks before the verdict against the pro-democracy activists, Secretary of State John Kerry passed up the opportunity to take a stand for the workers, and for democracy, by quietly waiving the human rights preconditions of U.S. aid to Egypt and thus allowing $1.3 billion in aid to go forward.
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Well, one can not be half pregnant, half tyrant, nor half islamic. Islam is plainly a totalitarian ideology. There is no good islam, there is no moderate islam. Islam sucks and represents a clear and present danger to freedom and individual liberty.
Don't buy into the 'moderate' propaganda put out by the media, leftists, RINOs or useful idiots.
Obama’s foreign policy has been an absolute disaster. His Libya policy resulted in the death of 4 Americans and the burning of the consulate in Benghazi. He drew a “red line” which the Syrians ignored, making him look like the fool that he is. He asked both China and Russia to turn over Snowden, and they basically laughed at him. He’s lost Egypt, completely mishandled Afghanistan, and insulted the leaders of Africa by pushing his pro-gay agenda. He’s trying to weasel-word his way around the EU spying debacle, and Israel has no reason to believe anything he says. Our enemies neither fear or respect us, and our allies no longer trust us.
“Our enemies neither fear or respect us, and our allies no longer trust us.”
You summed it up perfectly.
I guess this was part of the “change” Obama brought us — going from US as superpower to being ignored by all.
stupid editorial. military in Egypt runs the show. always has. So it really doesn’t matter a whole lot one way or the other what type of puppet civilian leader the military allows to stand in front of the TV cameras. To claim one is a dictator and another is a democrat is meaningless in Egypt and therefore whether one is better or worse than the other is meaningless.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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We got the change part, hope is for those who voted for it.
No, it doesn’t. He is on the side of Islam and the Oppression it represents. Do not be fooled.
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