Posted on 02/01/2011 11:44:14 AM PST by Peter Andrew Conservative
Standing with the dictator ally instead of freedom-seeking citizens was the wrong course for Obama. Fox News says Mubarak will not seek re-election, a huge victory for those protesting in the streets.
We asked earlier if Obama was really in a Pickle, sort of a darned if he does, darned if he doesn't kind of situation. We argued he was not and that he should have supported protesters. We were right.
Foxy Blondes News says Mubarak will not seek reelection.
Protesters quickly turned on Americans when they learned President Obama was pulling an Iran on them and telling them to be peaceful and sit down.
Obama's weak response may have cost us the friendship of whomever takes over Egypt now. And, we have no way of knowing if the "right" people are taking over! We need freedom-loving, democracy seekers in charge... not Iran-style Islamist Radicals!
What needs to be thought of is what the protesters want anyways. As we all know, they threw out the Shah, they simply got themselves a new, more fundamentalist, more totalitarian regime. For all we know, the protesting Egyptians may want a more fundamentalist regime at the moment to replace Mubarak. There just needs to be more information.
Barry,
if we protest you (again), will you promise not to run again?
Frankly, once things reached this point in Egypt, there was no “right” move. Support the “democracy” protestors, who if they win will wittingly or unwittingly usher in an islamic theocracy? Or support a secular dictator? Lose-lose.
Where odummo screwed this up is in setting the stage for this to even happen by being consistently weak, appeasing, and feckless in foreign affairs.
Bibi has nukes. I don't think he'll go quietly.
“...What is the fool trying to do, recreate the Ottoman Empire?”
Yes, well, sort of.
Obama hasn’t lost anything. As President of the U.S.A., we might say he has truly lost an ally. But Obama is a usurper and a Muslim who supports the concept of a world-wide Caliphate, so he hasn’t lost anything. In fact, quite the opposite.
He is not, however, trying to replicate the Ottoman Empire. It was a horribly poor example of Islamic rule. I believe he prefers a form of government along the lines of Iran’s repressive tyranny.
He is, no doubt, quite pleased with how things are moving along.
I think the Mombasa Moonbeam is going to get lucky.
Of course, Mubarak is going to take the gloves off fairly soon, and sort the Gippos out. They'll return to their hovels as soon as they are too hungry to riot any further ... and after they get Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot." Mubarak and the Egyptian military are too smart to get tough too soon. Take about another week.
Mubarak has resigned, i.e., promised not to "run" again in September, and will buy some time to restore order and what passes for a government in these parts.
All of this will be claimed as a Mombasa Moonbeam Moment, with our POTUS taking full credit for restoring calm and bringing "democracy" to Egypt. That means the MB will take over, but more slowly. The fact that Obama has nothing to do with it will not deter his handlers from declaring victory.
The Egyptian military is really not inclined to let the Islamists take over. IMHO, of course.
Where TF is King Farouk when we need him?
“Where TF is King Farouk when we need him?”
He’s in the Ile de France restaurant in Rome, sopping up the vittles. At least his ghost is.
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