Mubarak was a 30 year dictator. If Obama was in charge for 30 years, would you sit quietly because he is allied with some country on the other side of the world?
Obama helped the removal of Mubarak in exchange for an Islamist regime that oppresses women and minorities. Good job president Hussein! Instead he fingered his ass while Assad murdered over 400,000 of his own people. He also stepped aside in 2009 when the Iranian people were protesting the brutal Islamic regime, saying "it's non of our business blah blah blah" President Hussein was good at destroying our relationships with our allies.
That is not true. All dictators doesn't last forever............ young Egyptians wanted changes. It doesn't matter who is the US president those changes are bound to happen.
A good example of that coming in the near future is Iran........ young Iranians will revolt against these mullah hardliners. That's my prediction.
Obama stepped aside in 2009 about Iran. I'm lost..... what is that mean?
Apparently your memory fails you. Obama helped push out Mubarek, and then an Islamist named Morsi from the barbaric Muslim Brotherhood stepped into the void. Lucky for the Egyptian people General Sissi took over saved Egypt from the abyss.
But when it came to supporting the Iranian protesters from the barbaric Mullahs, suddenly he became mum. Obama has consistently been on the side of Islamists throughout his presidency. He also helped topple Yemen and Libya and what do we have now? Islamic terrorist shitholes.
1. How in the world Obama push Mubarak out? Explain how Obama push Mubarak out. As far as I know Egyptians revolted against Mubarak.
2. Morsi was democratically elected that American government support regardless who is the POTUS but Morsi was a mistake. Again Egyptians revolted June 2013 followed by coup detat led by Sisi push Morsi out.
3. Libya.......... if we didn't get involved. Do you think Gaddafi regime will last? Either we get involved or not Gaddafi government is bound to fail......... Again Libyans revolted against Gaddafi.
You blame Obama for supporting the Libyans toppling Gaddafi the dictator, murderer and terrorist supporter for decades.
AT THE SAME TIME....... you are blaming Obama for NOT supporting the Iranian protesters in 2009 against the mullahs. In short you want to topple Iranian regime........... Am I right? So what do you think will happen if Obama helped the Iranians toppled the mullahs?
4. Yemen. Explain how Obama toppled the Yemeni government.
How/what do you expect from Obama should handle all these conflicts?
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July 3, 2014 3:52 PM
"Caught between military dictatorship and Muslim Brotherhood rule, Egyptians face a choice between bad and worse. Through its rhetoric and aid policy, Obama administration has consistently favored the worst of the bad lot.
Responsible foreign policy requires the ability to distinguish between bad outcomes, and a willingness to accept something less than desirable when necessary. In Egypt, the Obama administration has treated military rule as the worst, and perhaps the only, catastrophe that could befall Egypt. Whether intentionally or not, this line of thinking has led to policies that favor Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Consider the way Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided Morsi with verbal support in the critical days leading up to the June 24, 2012, presidential election. In a discussion hosted at the State Department three days before the election, Clinton said it was “imperative that the military fulfill its promise to the Egyptian people to turn power over to the legitimate winner.” She also warned about the danger of “backtracking,” to a military regime.
Caught between military dictatorship and Muslim Brotherhood rule, Egyptians face a choice between bad and worse. Through its rhetoric and aid policy, Obama administration has consistently favored the worst of the bad lot. Today, Thursday, July 3, marks the one-year anniversary of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Mohamed Morsi’s ouster from the presidency by the Egyptian military in the wake of massive protests. Morsi’s successor, former defense minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, was sworn in as president this past June 8. While Sisi is undeniably authoritarian, he has not openly allied himself with jihadi terrorists as Morsi has. In his inaugural address, Morsi announced his intention to agitate for the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman from U.S. custody. Rahman, known in the U.S. as the “blind sheikh,” is implicated in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and numerous other terrorist plots.
Responsible foreign policy requires the ability to distinguish between bad outcomes, and a willingness to accept something less than desirable when necessary. In Egypt, the Obama administration has treated military rule as the worst, and perhaps the only, catastrophe that could befall Egypt. Whether intentionally or not, this line of thinking has led to policies that favor Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Consider the way Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided Morsi with verbal support in the critical days leading up to the June 24, 2012, presidential election. In a discussion hosted at the State Department three days before the election, Clinton said it was “imperative that the military fulfill its promise to the Egyptian people to turn power over to the legitimate winner.” She also warned about the danger of “backtracking,” to a military regime. In a different context, those remarks would be entirely reasonable. The rub is that Morsi’s competitor, Ahmed Shafiq, was a military man denounced by critics as a throwback to the Mubarak regime. Clinton’s uttering of these words in the eleventh hour of the campaign — without any warning about the dangers of Islamist government — could only have undermined him.
The Obama administration’s use of foreign aid — arguably America’s biggest political lever — has also tended to favor the Muslim Brotherhood. Thanks to the Camp David accords, Egypt receives $1.5 billion of aid annually, most of which is earmarked for the military. That makes Egypt the second biggest recipient of U.S. aid next to Israel. Both countries have come to rely on the aid."
