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2011-02-11 Africa North
White House perplexed over Mubarak's stubbornness
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Posted by tipper 2011-02-11 07:39|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ]  Top

#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||   2011-02-11 08:18|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 08:30|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 09:58|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 10:19|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 10:29|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 11:58|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 13:00|| Front Page Top

#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||   2011-02-11 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Great. Maybe he'll be qualified by the time his term is up.
Posted by RandomJD 2011-02-11 13:32||   2011-02-11 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think so.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-11 14:58||   2011-02-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

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