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| U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change' | |
| 2011-03-05 | |
| By Adam Entous And Julian E. Barnes of the Wall Street Journal. After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: "Yeah, the debate was about how we could blame Bush. So we ran a whole bunch of focus groups on that. We stopped when the focus group participants all responded that they really missed Bush." I wonder how long the internal debate about Jewish settlements lasted. How does one measure a picosecond? Quickly...
So all of you "emboldened citizens" hanging by your thumbs in some despot's hellhole, just, as it were, hang in there. Instead of pushing for immediate regime change the U.S. is urging protesters from Bahrain to Morocco to work with existing rulers toward what some officials and diplomats are now calling "regime alteration." Personally I prefer "tyranny light." The approach has emerged amid furious lobbying of the administration by Arab governments But no cash changed hands. Nope, nope, nope. However, Malia is now a member of the Saudi royal family. Administration officials say they have been consistent throughout True, although not in the way they meant urging rulers to avoid violence and make democratic reforms that address the demands of their populations. Like making them buy health insurance. Still, a senior administration official acknowledged the past month has been a learning process for policy makers. Yeah, since the Middle East has only been front page news all day every day since the invention of the printing press, I can see how this was all a shock. Being surprised is the hallmark of The One's administration. The rest of the article explains how we really need Bahrain to be stable, which for all I know is true. But the point is that this has been total amateur hour, which has the uniquely bad effect of undercutting both the reformers and the status quo.. | |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #1 Mubarak is out and Egypt is in danger of turning into a Sunni Iran. Gaddafi is weakened but still hanging on to some power. He might yet restore his rule over Libya. This really is a convenient time for the Obama administration to relax demands for regime change (which were officially made in Mubarak's case.) Wright and Farrakhan approve. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Jolump6531 2011-03-05 17:07 |