Washington Post points out Obama’s dangerously failed foreign policy
It’s at the bottom of a longer item and they probably don’t realize it, or even agree. But project out where this is headed. You don’t need a jihadist to know which way the terrorist bombs are going to blow.
But it was Morsi who best symbolized how things have changed.
Morsi is a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political movement banned by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the longtime U.S. ally ousted last year as the biggest prize of anti-government protests in several Mideast nations.
U.S. relations with the former secular dictatorships were based on a hard-nosed preference for security and stability in a volatile region.
Obama abandoned decades of U.S. policy when he yanked U.S. support for Mubarak, and his administration moved quickly to support democratic movements in several Mideast nations.
But the U.S. emphasis on personal liberty and tolerance rings hollow to many Egyptians and others, who recall the former willingness of U.S. leaders to look the other way when grievous human rights abuses occurred.
Egypt’s secular pro-democratic opposition, with long ties to the United States, largely crumbled after the revolution. The well-organized Muslim Brotherhood, with practically no ties to a U.S. government, proved more sure-footed.
This is most likely headed toward a disaster of epic proportions.
Lots of us saw this coming, although both the administration and its minions were apparently blind.
I think every conservative to the right of John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and I think that makes all of us, expressed three feelings during the Arab Spring:
(1) Some hope that something good could come from this, such as greater liberty, defeat of old enemies, democratic institutions.
(2) Grave concern that all this would lead nowhere good: either islamists taking over from the old, fascistic autocrats or failed states oozing jihadist terror.
(3) Recognition that there was little to nothing that the US could do to control these events.
In other words, I told you so.
I think you are dead wrong on (3).
There was a LOT we could have done to shape events in all these countries, but…
when you lead from your behind, you wind up passively watching, OR…
pushing the WORST results along.
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