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Quote of the Day
September 8, 2011 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 4:36pm | 7 Comments
Understatement of the Year? Fouad Ajami on the United States after 9/11:
America ... wasn't brilliant at everything it attempted in Arab lands.
yeah, that guy's a moron.
yeah, that guy's a moron.
I'll never understand why so
I'll never understand why so many people assume that Arab discontent with leaders like Mubarak means they are suddenly embracing everything American and, even more unlikely, Israeli. It doesn't really jive with anything I know about the region or the people I know from it.
We don't have to be
We don't have to be brilliant, just smarter than the Arabs.
That's do-able.
'But a chance was given the
'But a chance was given the Arabs to come face to face, and truly for the first time, with the harvest of their own history. Now their world is what they make of it.' Hmm... Seems to be glorifying the American role in the Middle Eastern just a tiny bit...
Exum, you missed the point of
Exum, you missed the point of the opinion.
The quote of the day should be. The opinion is more about the future then how they got to the Arab Spring. It would have happened anyway, it was not solely based on a required series of events.
Now their world is what they make of it.
My opinion is they should be left to figure it out. Hillary should not get her panties in a bunch to use US resources (or European resources either, they do not have any to spare). If the Arabs fail, they will still blame someone else for their problems. If America is present, no matter if it is justified, we will get blamed. Blame is what 9/11 was about, America allowed it self to get in the cross fire. Only they can come to and agreement and that will happen only when they are ready for it. America's help should only happen IF requested and I do not mean for Hillary to go looking for approval. The Arabs have to be ready for it, it must be genuine not a ploy (I have not made up my mind on the Libyan NFZ, in about a year we should know the agenda, Time has a way of showing cards, someone has to call. It will be shown in actions not words).
Discontent has always been the way in the ME. Domestic disputes are the most dangerous place to be for American Law Enforcement. Why not learn from experience.
Canceled Visa? Israeli
Canceled Visa? Israeli Embassy attacked? Broken treaties? More riots?
Egypt looks more like anarchy than democracy. Not too brilliant either.
And they get $3B in foreign aid? That has linkage to the '79 treaty.
We get 6 Billion Dollars in
We get 6 Billion Dollars in Natural Gas every year from Equatorial Guinea (one of the smallest countries in the world) Egypt does nothing for us, but the US gives Egypt foreign aid money?
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