Obama leery of intervention in Mideast

Associated Press ^ | Jul 3, 2013 3:03 AM EDT | Lara Jakes

[Olog-hai]

From Egypt to Syria to Iraq and beyond, the Obama administration is determined to show it will only go so far to help save nations in chaos from themselves.

President Barack Obama has long made it clear that he favors a foreign policy of consultation and negotiation, but not intervention, in the persistent and mostly violent upheavals across the Mideast. And he appears determined not to deviate this week even to help reverse turbulence in Egypt, one of the United States’ most important Arab allies.

U.S. officials say the Obama administration delivered pointed warnings Tuesday to three main players in the latest crisis to grip Egypt as hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster over his hard-line Islamist policies. The powerful Egyptian military appeared poised to overthrow him. …

[Da Coyote]

Oh puleeeeze.

The Muslimdork will intervene ONLY when his butt-worshiping Imam buds want him to.

They do not want him to intervene, so he does not.

[Redleg Duke]

Your are expecting a decision out of this empty suit?

[Jack Hammer]

‘Obama leery of intervention in Mideast’

Since when!

[jimpick]

Wow this is exactley what I see from him. S/

[LucianOfSamasota]

It should come as little surprise that Obama, who is grappling with a recovering economy, a war-weary public at home and diminished U.S. status as a global superpower abroad, would not wade into foreign conflicts.

I seem to remember Obama wading into Mubarak and Libya last year? Obama's reluctance is predicated upon whether the tyrants are jihadists. Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are safe - Mubarak and Gaddafi are attacked.

[TexasCajun]

Why stop now?

[Common Sense 101]

Earth to AP... the jug-eared moron’s prior interventions are exactly why the Mid East is in the shape its in... dumba$$es.

[norwaypinesavage]

Obama is leery of his own shadow. The Middle East requires Pampers for him.

[Youngman542012]

I would be leery too..if Kerry was my main man...and I was the ONE who had to tell him what to do....Peter Principal comes to mind...he is in way over his head...

[GenXteacher]

An administration with a feeble and weak foreign policy endangers the nation.

[GOPJ]

Obama’s an idiot. Everything he’s touched in the ME has gotten worse.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

[GOPJ]

Check these pictures out:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

[bandleader]

Obongo(suddenly)has a case of”Cold-Feet”??????????????

[moovova]

What...the Drone-Daddy is skeered of getting involved?

[Hotlanta Mike]

Jimmy Carter is relieved that he will no longer be considered the worst POTUS in modern history.

[GreenHornet]

U.S. officials say the Obama administration delivered pointed warnings Tuesday to three main players in the latest crisis to grip Egypt

Please help me out here. Which should be taken more seriously: a "strongly worded statement", a "red line", or a "pointed warning?"

[tet68]

President Barack Obama has long made it clear that he favors a foreign policy of consultation and negotiation, but not intervention, in the persistent and mostly violent upheavals across the Mideast.

Could of fooled me...
What a disaster the man is.’’’

[GeorgeTex]

I guess Egypt (overthrow of Mubarek) and Libya are not in the Middle East. The lies that come out of this man’s mouth!

[BatGuano]

Obama be the “Bystander in Chief”. That is his style. He is not leery but maybe “Queery”. Lead from behind...he is not even doing that.