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| White House perplexed over Mubarak's stubbornness | ||
| 2011-02-11 | ||
There is, however, a growing perception that Washington does not have much of a say in Cairo, WSJ said.
Arab and Israeli diplomats also pointed out that Mubarak no longer trusted the Obama administration since it had categorically sided with the opposition after eight days of the protest and just stopped short of asking him to resign. On the other hand, the White House had been reaching out to Suleiman and the military, the newspaper pointed out. "I don't think Mubarak trusts too many people from the US anymore," the Arab diplomat said. "It looks like Omar Suleiman is the right point of contact, but they're all ticked off with the US position, which they view as throwing Mubarak under the bus".
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 I don't think so. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-11 14:58 |
| #9 Great. Maybe he'll be qualified by the time his term is up. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-02-11 13:32 |
| #8 Meanwhile Oprah pleas for respect for the ONE saying that he is on a learning curve and that he is getting OJT. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-11 13:17 |
| #7 Honduras Falklands Egypt Three opportunities to vote present. I am a bit young, but how similar is this to Diem (not culturally or strategically, but international politics)...other than as so far the ending for Diem? The US political model is about smooth transition of power, I guess one thing which bothers me is by quickly supporting an abrupt change of power if the fire had spread quickly would the US position de fact support whatever domino consequences against Israel, S.A., Iraq? Karzai can point at this and say see, I am right to not put complete trust in current US policy. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-02-11 13:00 |
| #6 "The mystique of America's superpower status has been shattered," WRONG it's a deliberate Plan by our Moron In Chief. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-02-11 11:58 |
| #5 White House perplexed over Mubarak's stubbornness What's so effing hard? He's a dictator. Dictator's can't retire, either because they will be killed or because ... that's just the way dictators are. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-02-11 10:29 |
| #4 ...the actual implementation reflects somebody with the experience of two years in the Senate, who had never navigated outside of academia and Chicago tit-for-tat politics. So Mubarak is/is not a dictator, must leave now/yesterday/sometime soon as he serves as sort of a figurative leader/a critical transition player/a suspicious counter-revolutionary inasmuch as the U.S. must lay down conditions/advise only/respect Egyptian prerogatives, as private conversations with Egyptians are spilled to the press, Obama suggests the Cairo desire for freedom somehow channels his own support, and Biden, Clinton, and Obama contradict one another hourly. --Victor Davis Hanson, Ricochet |
| Posted by: Mike 2011-02-11 10:19 |
| #3 This Administration has the habit of pointedly insulting or avoiding leaders they've taken a dislike to, while courting subordinates they believe will do as told. Remember how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was was summoned and put in a spare room to work out a way to comply while President Obama went off to dinner alone with his family? But the Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, head of the Labour party, was winded and dined the several times he came to the U.S. to meet with the DoD, and President Obama even took time out from his busy schedule to poke his head in and join for an unscheduled discussion of issues. Barak was supposed to be so flattered that he'd persuade his boss to stop building 'settlements' and sign over the captured territories to the Palestinians for vague statements about trying to keep the peaces. Now the administration is playing the same game with Egypt: "We don't like the guy in charge, so he might as well just go away and leave things to the guy we like." |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-11 09:58 |
| #2 The one guy not mentioned in all of this, but should be, in re the White House, is Manuel Zelaya. Remember him? He is currently living in the Dominican Republic. Right next door to Haiti. Even his bud Chavez didn't offer him a home. Nor did old man Fidel or his bro. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-11 08:30 |
| #1 That dismal foreign policy of annoying allies to "bond" with Americas enemies seems to get very little press. Good job Obama is so experienced @ all this stuff, otherwise Americas foreign policy would look like a clusterfuck. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-02-11 08:18 |