UPDATE: Mubarak packs it in. For the inevitable preening now that Mubarak has resigned. I say Hurrah! and good for Egypt. But that changes nothing as far as the D- minus grade O and his team get for their feckless handling of this crisis. We lost clout with many allies in the region due to not supporting Mubarak and we lost clout with the Egyptian people by not supporting them. If Obama had stood up and said that the United States believes Mubarak should leave and appoint the military High Council to caretake a transition leading to popular elections in the short term, we would be in a position to claim leadership in an orderly transition. He didn't have the cojones, so he voted present and we slide lower in international power. Well played sir, and congratulations for the exposure of your entire national security team as incompetent. Original piece follows. So far as regards the Egyptian revolution, our President has voted present, our Vice President denied that a dictator of 30 years was a dictator of 30 years, our Secretary of State stated two completely contradictory positions in the course of 4 days, our Director of National Intelligence wasn't even joking when he called the MUSLIM Brotherhood a secular group that has eschewed violence, and now the Director of the CIA testifies to Congress (incorrectly) based on the information his agency gleaned by watching f***ing CNN! Boy I'm tickled pink that we have this impressive group of professionals to reestablish America's position in the world. The most significant event in the Middle East in decades and we have a clown car full of pint-sized personalities running around saying things so dumb that Saturday Night Live has fired its writers and now will just run clips from C-Span. What a great idea to hire a completely unexperienced, perpetual grad student as President & Commander in Chief. His amazing blend of bong hit diplomacy & a failed cult of personality have made him almost transparent on the international stage. Oh he has a few true believers left, but most of them also practice Scientology. Obama seems to have bumbled his way into disproving most of the marquee lefty liberal policies in barely two years. And now Europe and the Anglosphere seem to be waking up and smelling the tea and croissants as well. Australia, England, Canada, Germany & France have all noted the bleedingly, freaking obvious, that multi-culturalism creates multiple cultures and that some of those cultures are reprehensibly barbaric. A Bush admin aide caught a lot of crap about saying that they created their own reality. What he was talking about was getting inside our enemies decision loop and not allowing them to dictate the situation. If you move swiftly enough you can create a reality your enemies couldn't plan for. That requires the courage of your convictions (or convictions period) and the stones to act. It is all well and good to call inaction pragmatism, or Realpolitik and there are times when caution is obviously the proper course. But our foreign policy seems to consist of bending over and asking "Thank you sir, may I have another?". Well pardon me if I don't want to join the banditos of ass fraternity that O is trying to pledge us to. We have not lost the things that make us exceptional and there are plenty places around the world that could use a strong example of what freedom means. Time to remember why we are Unapologetically American.
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