Obama snubs…
…al-Sisi of Egypt, who is one of the most, if not the most, reformist leaders in the entire Muslim Middle East. This is the man he should be most eager to support and court.
Although maybe it’s best for al-Sisi that Obama ignore him, since Obama’s support is ordinarily the kiss of death.
Why are you surprised. Obama has, for years, been n extremely strong supporter of the Moslem Brotherhood. He can’t tolerate anyone opposed to the Brotherhood.
Al Sisi is in great company. Look who else Obama has ignored – Israel; Jordan; the Kurds; etc., etc., etc. But then he has time for the Beer Summit and the clock summit.
Your second paragraph is the most important, Neo: Al Sisi should be glad Obama snubbed him.
The rest of the world should just cluck their tongue and say to themselves quietly, “Valerie Jarrett.”
nkbay99:
What on earth makes you think I’m surprised?
But he has time for this guy.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/29/obama-accidentally-shakes-hand-of-iranian-foreign-minister-at-un/
Accidentally?
With his entourage of sycophants always running interference with anyone unworthy of pressing the royal flesh?
al-Sisi is not as important as Clockboy.
Plus Obama snubs of people who actually risked their lives and the lives of their families and tribes gambling on America the leader of the free world:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/george-w-bush-iraq-anbar-115155.html
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-11/the-rise-and-fall-of-america-s-favorite-iraqi-sheik
Obama supported Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Morsi was removed, tried, and convicted by al-Sisi’s regime. Knowing how petty Obama can be, it’s fitting that Obama doesn’t want to work with al-Sisi.
There’s a lovely double-edged sentence from classic military lore;
“He ____(insert relevant word here) __ in the manner which we have come to expect from him.”
Of course.
38 reasons why Americans who are not mind-numbed like you suspect Obama is not a Christian, but is a Muslim.
Scroll down to list.
I blame the voters ….
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Obama ignores Sisi, “accidentally” shakes the hand of some IRI savage. Maintains his perfect record of shunning America’s friends and groveling to our enemies. We haven’t had a foreign policy this consistent in decades.
I put this in the “Can you blame them?” category.
“Russian state-run arms trader Rosoboronexport and the Russian Helicopters holding are engaged in consultations with their Egyptian partners concerning a possible acquisition of Kamov Ka-52 ‘Katran’ ship-based helicopters for the two Mistral-class helicopter carriers, originally built for Russia, that Egypt has agreed to buy from France, a source in an organization linked with arms exports told Interfax-AVN.
‘Indeed, such consultations are in progress. They deal with a possible acquisition by Cairo of some 30 Ka-52K ‘Katran’ ship-based helicopters that were initially supposed to be placed on board the French helicopter carriers and are 100 percent adapted for these ships,’ the source said.
“The price of the contract will stand at over $1 billion,” he added.
– http://rbth.co.uk/news/2015/09/24/egypt_may_buy_some_30_ka-52k_helicopters_from_russia_for_over_1_billion_49514.html)
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Egypt will have the wherewithal to make the purchase because Obama reinstated $1.9B in military aid to Egypt last March. So, in a fit of cosmic justice, al-Sisi just may use US money to buy shipboard helos from Putin.
France, like Russia, is willing and able to step into any vacuum Obama creates in his mad rush to have the US flee the Middle East. Before agreeing to purchase the two Mistral helo carriers, Egypt contracted with France to buy four Gowind class corvettes and 24 Dassault Rafale fighters, becoming the first foreign purchaser of the French jet.
I doubt al-Sisi cares that Obama snubbed him. Al-Sissi has already given Obama the finger. I wish I could feel differently about this; I did after all spend 20 years in the Navy. But if I were a foreign leader and had been treated the way this thin-skinned narcissist treats our friends, allies, or in Egypt’s case those slightly well disposed toward the US, I’d give this President the finger, too. And develop relationships with more reliable suppliers of arms.
Obama is the enemy of both Israel and a moderate Egypt. Why should al-Sisi soil his hand. Better to run like hell.
That’s quite a list, those 38 reasons. But hey. He doesn’t go to mosque on Fridays, and that outweighs everything, somehow.
Tribally and culturally, he certainly is.
Things are really not as bad as they seem. They never are. (With this administration, they’re a lot worse…)
If the Nuclear capitulation (AKA “deal”) with Iran doesn’t work exactly like we’ve been solemnly promised (heh), Obama can always make a “deal” with the Iranian women’s football (soccer) team….:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/sports/2015/09/28/Eight-players-from-Iran-s-female-team-not-fully-women-.html
America’s Exceptionally Righteous and Durable Foreign Policy in action.
Wherever the sun shines the brightest, there you will also find the deepest shadows. It’s not an explanation of why America has fallen. It is merely a statement about the balance of the world, whenever there is too much force going into one direction, the pendulum tends to swing back to equilibrium with an equal and opposite direction/force.
Light and darkness, good and evil, American superpower vs the manifold paths of righteousness.
What happens to a nation that no longer deserves its power, who longer deserves victory, because that nation sold out everyone and anyone of virtue, along with the inheritance of liberty, for some con artist product?
Remember what happened to Libya’s dictator that followed along with American policies. Remember what happened to Seal Team Six when Hussein praised their actions to his own credit.
Remember all those pictures of the Hussein + flies around him.
Ymarsakar – King Putt is Lord of Flies?
Remember what happened to Libya’s dictator that followed along with American policies.
Here.
These are not time to make nice….cackle.
Reagan on Scoop Jackson:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/62684c.htm
Of course, he made kissy face with Raul Castro and had his lunch eaten by Poot.
Interesting pecking order.
Obama snubbed:
U.S. Rejected Offers by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria to Surrender … and Proceeded to Wage War
Cackle!
Overheard at the Pentagon: “Right now, we are Putin’s prison bitch.”
Thus the fondness for sagging pants.
formwiz,
The lunch was eaten because it was prepared and served.
Moscow Orders Obama to Get Out of Syria
Snub is told to get out!
She cackled once upon a time…
This fawning over al-Sisi makes conservatives look, frankly, ridiculous. The argument for al-Sisi is not that he is a “moderate” or a “reformist:” it is that, like Mubarack before him, though he might be a bastard, he is *our* bastard. (Or he would be, if our foreign policy managers weren’t such rank incompetents.) Al-Sisi might be interested in reforms in Egypt, but only those that allow the neo-Mamluk regime of the generals to remain in control. Economic reforms, yes, because economic growth will give Egypt’s many unemployed or underemployed young men something to do all day besides think about becoming a jihadist. But political reforms? No way.
If we are going to advocate for closer ties with antidemocratic, oppressive regimes, let us at least be honest about the fact that we do so because there are no better realistic options. Pretending the al-Sisi regime is moderate and reformist is as offensive and incorrect as socialists pretending that the USSR was “anti-imperialist.”
The same applies, to a lesser extent, to Jordan. Jordan has the trappings of parliamentary democracy, but like the Kingdom of Prussia, the King exercises almost unlimited power and the Parliament is heavily gerrymandered. The King’s Bedouin power base are hugely overrepresented in Parliament compared to the Palestinian/non-Bedouin Arabs. I still think we should support Jordan, because the King is our friend, but we should be honest about what our friends really are.
G6loq,
FYI, here is the explanation of the law and policy, fact basis of the decision for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The zerohedge article relies on the fundamental false premise asserted in Russian propaganda, then adopted by Democrats and Left, that the burden of proof was on the weapons inspectors to find items according to the pre-war intelligence so Iraq merely allowing the UNSCR 1441 inspections was sufficient.
In fact, in order for Saddam to switch off enforcement, ie, the threat of regime change, Iraq was required to meet its mandated burden to prove “full and immediate compliance” with the “governing standard of Iraqi compliance” (UNSCR 1441).
The weapons inspectors were not required to find anything. Iraq was required to prove it disarmed as mandated.
The main trigger for OIF was the UNMOVIC finding of “about 100 unresolved disarmament issues” presented to the UNSC on March 7. Casus belli was Iraq’s material breach across the board of the Gulf War ceasefire, not limited to the weapons mandates of UNSCR 687, including prominently the terrorism mandates of UNSCR 687 and humanitarian mandates of UNSCR 688.
Obama wakes up each & every morning considering some *way* he can make things *better* for Islam, whether it’s by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, bragging about their accomplishment or pretending their murderous ways do not exist to him it’s Islam, First, now & for the rest of his tenure. And Trump was supposed to correct that *plant* THAT he was not a Muslim, LOL too funny, how stupid really how stupid does the US Pravda media think we are???
Bryan:
“Fawning”? Hardly.
It is undeniable that al-Sisi is one of the better leaders in the region. That hardly makes him someone to “fawn” over, but certainly more support and recognition than is given the Castros or the Iranian leaders might be in order. Also, al-Sisi may not be able to reform Islam, but at least he gives speeches about it that are fairly hard-hitting, which is more than almost any other Mideast leader does. I certainly don’t remember anything of the sort coming from Mubarak, although I may have missed something, since I haven’t followed his entire output.
Bryan, the conversation that you’re having with yourself inside your head doesn’t have any relationship to what anyone has said on this thread. Or, ever, as far as I can tell.
If you want to respond to something someone else has said, then why don’t you do what everyone else does.
Identify the comment and respond to it.
Molly, Hussein also wakes up every day with a big phat grin on his face when he hears about Americans dying or being tortured due to “unintentional consequences” of his actions and policies.
This is where people like C here come up and defend Hussein as having “executed nobody”. Yea, nobody has been executed in the US by the Left. Sure.
But political reforms? No way.
Before people talk about political reforms, they might want to consider reforming their own country and home first, else they become like those hypocrite NGOs.
Ymarsakar — King Putt is Lord of Flies?
It was an old allusion people used to make. You never heard about it?
Actually I assumed the “draws flies” insult meant poor hygiene. Lightbulb went on. The Lyin’ King is Lord of Flies (that’s Beelzebub to you bub). It fits.
World Leader Accuses Obama of treason on the Floor of the United Nations
Lost in the media hype surrounding the addresses of Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday was a bombshell claim by the president of Argentina.
President Christina Fernandez de Kirchener announced that her nation had been approached by an Obama administration official with a request that Argentina provide enriched nuclear fuel to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2010.
The official in question was Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, who did not dispute the seemingly outrageous claim and has been open about his opposition to the nuclear agreement currently worked out between Obama and Iran.
Kirchener said that Samore wanted Argentina to provide nuclear fuel to Iran, ostensibly to counter Iran’s excuse that they needed nuclear fuel for their reactors, removing the impetus for them to continue their own uranium enrichment program.
Kirchener stated that the deal fell through when her government asked for the request in writing, to abide by proper protocol, at which point the issue was dropped and Kirchener never heard from Samore again about it.
For his part, Samore released a statement admitting that he had in fact traveled to Argentina in 2010 and made the request, though he insinuated the incident was no big deal.
Tick, tick, tick ….
Actually I assumed the “draws flies” insult meant poor hygiene.
Oh I see.
The Lyin’ King is Lord of Flies (that’s Beelzebub to you bub). It fits.
That is probably what the posters back then were alluding to, since many of them were initial stage Tea Party propaganda posters boosting patriotism against tyranny.
I think these days, with Planned Profit, it is no longer merely a reference, but more of a physical reality.
Remember that poster the Left liked to use about Bush eating babies? heh, they were talking about themselves, as usual.
G6, America’s satellite and subservient nations are wising up to the old gig. Used to be American honor and promises were worth something, until Vietnam and other operations successfully allowed the Left to take over, overseas as well as domestically.
Get that in writing, cause later on the CIA will kill you for betraying the WMD proliferation treaty, heh.
and…. New York City Council Honors Ethel Rosenberg, Executed for High Treason for Delivering the US’ Atomic Bomb Plans to the Soviet Union, for Her “Great Bravery”
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