Egypt's Chance

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Egypt's Chance :: Daniel Pipes

For its part, the U.S. administration naively expressed no such concerns. Barack Obama downplayed the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, calling it but "one faction in Egypt," while his director of national intelligence, James Clapper, actually praised the brotherhood as "a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence" and pursues "a betterment of the political order in Egypt."

This nonsense points to a U.S. policy in deep disarray. In June 2009, during a would-be revolution against a hostile regime in Iran, the Obama administration stayed mum, hoping thereby to win Tehran's good will. But with Mr. Mubarak, a friendly dictator under assault, it effectively adopted George W. Bush's impatient "freedom agenda" and supported the opposition. Mr. Obama seemingly encourages street demonstrators only against our side. American pressure, steady and gradual, recognizing that the democratization process implies a vast transformation of society and requires not months but decades, is needed to open the system.

 

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This admin chooses to wait on the sidelines for opportunity.

 

[SolomonVII]

Nonsense indeed.
When the leader of the West supports demonstrations only against allies and discourages them against the Islamofascists of Iran, the message of the left is in effect a policy of disarray.

 

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[SolomonVII]

This admin chooses to wait on the sidelines for opportunity.

Basically I think they always seem two or three steps behind the game because they lack vision. Obama was elected to world accolades all on the basis of his charm and personality. He seems to have been under the impression that his magnanimous presence was all that was needed to change the world into a utiopia.