Article

2013-08-17 Africa North

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2013-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 Stay out of it. Someone please tell Kerry, Graham, McShame, and the rest to stay out of it as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-17 04:08|| 2013-08-17 04:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "We again urge all sides to cease violence, and we note that government has a particular responsibility to ensure an atmosphere that allows Egyptians to exercise peacefully their universal rights"

And she emailed it in. How appropriate.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-17 12:51|| 2013-08-17 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Avoid lethal force, or---at least---call the army units involved "swat teams".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-17 12:59|| 2013-08-17 12:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The US has no more moral authority to influence events. Thanks to O's kowtowing to dictators and despots, effectively recognizing their legitimacy of their oppression, nobody listens to the US any more. The only people O and Co can influence or subjugate is US citizens, and that will not last forever.

A very tragic state of affairs.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-17 14:31|| 2013-08-17 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The US has no more moral authority to influence events.

There's no such thing as "moral authority" in foreign policy.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-17 18:12|| 2013-08-17 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 US urges Egypt to avoid 'lethal force' - after ordering the umpteenth drone strike in Yemen.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-17 20:21|| 2013-08-17 20:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure if they would just sit down and talk with each other, they could straighten out their differences quite quickly.

Posted by KBK 2013-08-17 20:38|| 2013-08-17 20:38|| Front Page Top

#8 We again urge all sides to cease violence

The key word here is all, and the MB has to make the first move.

Posted by gorb 2013-08-17 22:34|| 2013-08-17 22:34|| Front Page Top

23:52 Uncle Phester
23:42 Uncle Phester
23:37 retired LEO
23:33 Uncle Phester
23:17 Uncle Phester
23:05 Uncle Phester
23:00 Hellfish
22:57 Uncle Phester
22:53 Glenmore
22:51 Glenmore
22:50 Glenmore
22:46 Uncle Phester
22:43 Glenmore
22:41 Glenmore
22:39 gorb
22:38 Glenmore
22:37 Glenmore
22:36 Uncle Phester
22:35 Zenobia Floger6220
22:34 gorb
22:34 Uncle Phester
22:30 gorb
22:29 Glenmore
22:22 Uncle Phester