Less, Egyptians, whether Morsi supporters, Mubarak supporters, Military supporters, or an average working citizen all view Obama and those who cover for him as the spineless coalition frauds right now. I can't speak on behalf of all Egyptians, or even any one of them.
But I do agree that the Obama administration is indeed acting like a bunch of spineless phonies, and that there is no way anyone in the world views them as strong and principled.
Even pulling back aid and declaring neutrality in this conflict would be a strong and principled declaration. But the Obama administration and the State Department won't do that. Instead, they want to keep pretending that nothing has changed in Egypt.
I read somewhere that the State Department won't pull back aid because they don't want to lose leverage. But what good is that leverage doing right now? Will it bring about peace and stability, or is that complete wishful thinking? If it's the latter, then the choice should be obvious, but if it's the former, then what? Should we just support the military coup and install the next "Mubarak"? Cause you know, he was a "stabilizing force" in the region, just like Saddam Hussein was in Iraq. Until he wasn't. Or maybe he was. Who the F knows? We sure didn't when we helped Saddam rise to power in the first place.
Anyway, that's the reason why I'm trying to get SilentZ (and maybe Bentway) to declare that Mubarak was a "stabilizing force" in Egypt. Of course, they never will because they will NEVER admit that Obama bungled the situation last year and continues to bungle it now. Instead they'll say, "Oh yeah? Look at what happened under Bush!"
They don't realize that the mistakes that helped Saddam rise to power in Iraq are the same mistakes that Obama is committing right now. Except that in Obama's case, there are no mitigating factors behind the mistakes except sheer denial. At least when Saddam rose to power, the Western world considered a revolutionary Iran to be the "enemy," which is why we backed Saddam back then.
(Of course, everything that happened under Saddam and afterwards was much worse than what is going on in Egypt right now, but like I said before, the Egyptian revolution is young, and we'll never know just how far the repercussions will carry.)
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