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Back in early 2011 Obama made decisions that could cost him the presidency on a foreign policy blunder.
"By failing to back Mubarak and telling the Egyptian military to pull its punches and let the demonstrators take over the streets, the Obama administration has come to own responsibility for the outcome of the Egyptian revolution."
Now that the Egyptian election is between a hated Mubarak ally and a Moslem Brotherhood candidate, there is a good chance the brotherhood will win.
You don't know much about Egyptian politics or history, do you? The dictatorship of Mubarak was on it's last legs anyhow and Obama just happened to be in office when it fell apart.
He neither caused nor facilitated the rise of The Brotherhood to political power. That, my friend, was inevitable and it would have happened no matter who's in the White House.
In any case, haven't we been fighting wars in the Middle East for the past 11 years just to empower people to elect the government they want? Didn't George Bush embark us upon a strategy to defeat Islamic radicalism by bringing democracy to a region where dictatorships is the norm? If they dare to elect someone we don't like, you can't then back up from that strategy without admitting Bush was totally wrong, can you?
Are you willing to do that? Will you blame Bush as much as you blame Obama, or is your outrage selective?
Back in early 2011 Obama made decisions that could cost him the presidency on a foreign policy blunder.
"By failing to back Mubarak and telling the Egyptian military to pull its punches and let the demonstrators take over the streets, the Obama administration has come to own responsibility for the outcome of the Egyptian revolution."
Now that the Egyptian election is between a hated Mubarak ally and a Moslem Brotherhood candidate, there is a good chance the brotherhood will win.
President Bush has a very different take on this subject...
"America does not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere," Bush said. "It only gets to choose what side it is on."
And the U.S., Bush said, should always be on the side of freedom.
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Bush said uprisings last year in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere marked the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the fall of the Soviet Union, but said some feared what that would mean for U.S. foreign policy.
"America, they argue, should be content with supporting the flawed leaders they know, in the name of stability," he said. "But in the long run this foreign policy approach is not realistic. It is not realistic to presume that so-called stability enhances our national security."
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