"Arab Spring" One of the Worst Foreign Policy Blunders in History (spokesman, soldiers)
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He PUSHED the arab spring, especially in Egypt, where he threw a 30 year ally, critical to the WoT, critical to keeping the radical extremists at bay in his country, under the bus.
He should have pushed for mubarak to step down in an orderly fashion, giving a chance for the moderates to gain support, but no, he wanted mubarak gone "yesterday", throwing governance in the country into a vacuum, which allowed the MB and the even more radical sect to come out on top in the elections.
Now we will have a very radical anti-American, anti-Israel regime installed.
The youth/moderates involved in the protest didn't have a chance.
It wouldn't matter what he did. He's the President of the United States. He can't tell people here what to do let alone a few hundred thousand/few million pissed off foreign nationals in their own country.
The youth/moderates got what they wanted. Democracy. Democracy doesn't mean that you get your own way. It means you get a vote.
I take it you hate freedom?
Again, there was nothing Obama could do to stop this and in the end they got democracy.
barack hussein obama - the president who lost a moderate ME by giving it to the most radical segments of islam.
I remember these days vividly the Left and the neocons on the Right denounced anyone who pointed this out as being against liberty.
Heck even "Tiger Mom" predicted this in another book 7 years prior. I just happened to be reading her book at the time and her predictions were eerily spot on.
Amy Chua assessed the likely effects of rapid democratization in the region in World on Fire, and her judgment still seems correct:
Meanwhile, even if the turn to fundamentalism in the Middle East is a product of closed or repressive political regimes, it sadly does not follow that political liberalization in the region today would lead to moderation–or, for that matter, to pro-market regimes. On the contrary, rapid democratization in the Arab states would likely be a recipe for extremist politics, dominated by ethnonationalist (if not fundamentalist) parties unified in their hatred of Israel and the West.
She wrote at the end of the same chapter: While free market democracy may well be the optimal end point in the Middle East, the simultaneous pursuit today of laissez-faire markets and immediate majority rule would almost certainly produce even more government-sponsored bloodshed and ethnic warfare.
barack hussein obama - the president who lost a moderate ME by giving it to the most radical segments of islam.
Agreed.
[dictators are better and as a beacon of democracy, these are whom we should support]
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