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2011-01-30 Africa North

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Posted by tipper 2011-01-30 03:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Q: What was the man thinking?
A: 'God damn America!'

There's no big secret re Obama's political philosophy.

Obama=Wright

Posted by Vernal Crailet3257 2011-01-30 07:09|| 2011-01-30 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 What was the man thinking?

Hosni won't live forever. How do we get the least worst alternative?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-01-30 08:15|| 2011-01-30 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't say you were not warned in 2009 --

The Obama-Muslim Brotherhood Policy
By: Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
Washington Times | Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Time for a refresher course ?

Posted by Goodluck 2011-01-30 08:36|| 2011-01-30 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 At the end of the day you have to figure Mubarik is 80 and doesn't have a successor. Who is gonna be next? Do you fight that and have them hate you (as in Cuba and Iran) or do you try to have it both ways so that they are at least indifferent.

There is also the chance that this was to put pressure on Mubarik who would have known through his own sources.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-01-30 08:41|| 2011-01-30 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 NS, that "least worst" perspective is HIS not the US's. He wants the radical Mooslimbs to take over as much as possible. That's part of his plan to scuttle the US.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-01-30 09:27|| 2011-01-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh come on Alan he wants to use NASA as an outreach program

Posted by Beavis 2011-01-30 10:04|| 2011-01-30 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 We all knew that Hosni was going to run out of Grecian formula one day, and that his son is a clownfish swimming in a tank of sharks.

Having very quiet meetings with various members of the opposition, therefore, isn't a bad idea.

BUT: you don't have the President run the meeting!

This is a meeting that should be run by CIA operatives, or by embassy personnel, very quiet, all deniable, no recordings, no minutes and no agenda other than to find out what the opposition wants and what they plan to do to get it.

Further, we (the US) should have had these meetings with ALL the various parts of the opposition. If indeed there's a democratic core out there, find it.

Then the diplomats and spooks report back to Washington, and then the President can make a presumably informed decision.

But if Bambi himself was conducting this meeting, it goes beyond mere incompetence to a near god-like hubris.

Posted by Steve White 2011-01-30 10:39|| 2011-01-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 "goes beyond mere incompetence to a near god-like hubris"

That's our Bambi!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-30 11:15|| 2011-01-30 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 First off, folks, let go of any residual suspicion that events injurious to American national interests aren't part of Obama's overall plan. This man spent all his formative years marinating in a stew of postmodern Marxist radicalism, anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism, so why should anyone assume that as president, he wouldn't chart a foreign policy based on magnifying the influences he's absorbed for more than thirty years?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-01-30 16:30|| 2011-01-30 16:30|| Front Page Top

#10 That was no secret. If Obama screws up this Middle East too, there will be HELL to pay America. If the administrations answer to this is ElBaradei, Congress needs to put cease and desist orders on the President and contain him like North Korea until you have a decent operator at the helm. Other people know what to do in these situations.Omar Suleiman is a fantastic pick for VP. A serious man who does not even want power. Thats an acceptable reform. Also, what ever happened to Noor?

Posted by newc 2011-01-30 16:38|| 2011-01-30 16:38|| Front Page Top

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