-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:
Mubarek may have been a dictator.
Of course most of you are getting your marching orders from oxy-boy:Rush Limbaugh Endorses Hosni Mubarak’s DictatorshipQuote:
He suggested conservatives “root for†Hosni Mubarak.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rush-limbaugh-endorses-hosni-mubaraks-dictatorship/How history will judge Obama on EgyptA dictator has fallen. A people are freed. The sky is the limit of their dream, and the dream of the rest of the world celebrating with them.
How will history judge President Barack Obama's response to the seismic changes that have happened in Egypt?
Observers around the globe are comparing the extraordinary events unfolding in and around Tahrir Square and the dramatic exit of Hosni Mubarak to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the collapse of the Soviet Union or alternatively to the aspirations of the protesters of Tiananmen Square.
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All these metaphors can only hint at the historic magnitude of what we have been seeing unfold in front of our eyes, and not just in Egypt. And we are still coming to terms with the uprising in Tunisia and the Green Movement in Iran that followed the disputed presidential election of 2009.
There is no doubt that when one puts these three events next to each other, all in the short span of 2½ years, the old, clichéd manner in which Washington tries to understand them categorically fails.
The Obama administration's response to the Egypt revolution has been, from beginning to end, indecisive and incoherent, leading one to wonder who really minds the shop at the White House at times of crisis.
Beginning with Vice President Joe Biden supporting President Hosni Mubarak as an ally and "not a dictator," and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton initially saying the regime was stable down to Obama handing the Egyptian president a laundry list of what he has to do "right now" before finally applauding the cause of the victorious protesters, we are witness to a political culture that's more embarrassing to the U.S. than the WikiLeaks disclosures.
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