Posted on 08/22/2012 11:52:46 PM PDT by tsowellfan
The gloom in Washington must be deepening. Egypt is careering away from the alliance with the United States - and the bitter truth cannot be hidden or obfuscated anymore.
This is not how Washington expected the "right side of history" to play out. The Arab Spring has borne a strange fruit in Egypt - a pure breed, unlike the hybrids in Tunisia, Libya or Yemen.
Consider the following. President Barack Obama was one of the first statesmen to greet Mohammed Morsi on his election victory in May. Obama broke protocol and phoned to congratulate him,signifying the anxiety in Washington to have a splendid chemistry with him.
Then, Obama wrote a letter to Morsi and he deputed Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to fly to Cairo and deliver it in person. Burns was followed to Cairo by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, again for an audience with Morsi. That, in turn, was followed by the visit to Cairo by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. All this, within the first month of Morsi's presidency.
Panetta came back to Washington greatly pleased that the Egyptian military leadership, which has been the anchor sheet of the US regional strategy and the custodian of the US' interests in Egypt, and Morsi were not only getting alone fine but they even had a common agenda...
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
“This is not how Washington expected the “right side of history” to play out”
This is EXACTLY how hussein hoped it would turn out.
Geee, guess which country biulds U.S. designed M1 tanks.
Obama decided Mubarak should go. Look at what that left us.
Egypt thumbs the nose at US
Sounds like a good reason to send another few billion dollars to them.
I've proposed something similar to this many times. I would have a lottery of all citizens registered to vote to fill all elective offices. Being registered would indicate willingness to serve. You'd have to go back to a limited government as outlined in the Constitution because otherwise the bureaucracy would take over even more than they already have. However, if the government wasn't a huge cesspool with almost unlimited powers as it is today, we'd be much better off.
Any 10 random citizens could do a better job than any 10 elected politicians.
Practicing up for here?
Wow, putting one person in charge of awarding $1.3 billion would seem to be a bad idea, for a number of reasons.
Yep. As well as bill ayers and his buds.
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