Terrorism: As Syria's Islamist rebels merge with al-Qaida, Secretary of State John Kerry mulls more U.S. support for them. Can anyone explain what President Obama is doing to the Mideast?
'How's that hopey changey stuff workin' out for ya?" Sarah Palin famously asked, mocking Obama's campaign slogan. The same could be asked of "that Arab Spring stuff," largely sparked by President Obama's 2009 Cairo University speech seeking "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."
For over three decades, Egypt was a key U.S. ally, first under Anwar Sadat, who paid with his life, then under Hosni Mubarak. But Obama's appearance in Cairo was, among other things, a calculated snub of Mubarak.
Obama implicitly invited Egyptians and other Arabs to revolt; the result was the Muslim Brotherhood coming into power in Egypt to which the U.S. just added 140,000 tear-gas canisters for their government to use against freedom-fighting demonstrators, on top of F-16 fighter jets and the $1.5 billion in annual aid we give.
Moammar Gadhafi voluntarily abandoned his nuclear weapons program after President George W. Bush's Iraq invasion made it clear the U.S. meant business in the global war on terror. Yet Obama inexplicably helped Islamist rebels overthrow Gadhafi in 2011.
Are the Syrian rebels a desirable alternative to Bashar al-Assad, simply because they are rebels? Do Obama and Kerry think because the U.S. helped all these Islamists into power we will have influence over them?
"Counter-revolutionary" is an apt term for these days: President Obama has promised to make a fundamental transformation, a veritable revolution in American society and culture. Those who oppose such an ongoing agenda are suspected of all sorts of racism, nativism, misogyny, homophobia, and general counter-revolutionary activity.
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If VDH were a baseball player, he would be Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and all the others rolled into one for all the times he hits one out of the park.
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I agree Rambler. A crying and pitiful shame we cannot set similar minds to work in Washington. To expand upon your excellent metaphor, we appear to have left Tiger Woods pulling pints back at the clubhouse.
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