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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (72038)	3/15/2011 9:51:10 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 219651

All what BO administration achieved by toppling Mubarak is instability in N. Africa and ME which may lead to an actual war. It is obvious that no serious consideration was given "what if" and "how we respond" to the developments. Fact is thousands of people are being killed property destroyed and instability implanted, which in most cases are against US vital interests. As to Egypt - the so called opposition group received full support from the US administration BEFORE the demonstration. The US forced Mubarak to resign under the label of "democracy and justice" all correct but no one was thinking "what if" others would like to have the same as Egypt - aside from Libya, and Algiers - the grand daddy Saudi Arabia - and then "no one was thinking "what if" for the simple reason that they are plainly clueless. Military Force’ “If we had used military force last week to neutralize a number of air strips and a few dozen of their planes, perhaps the opposition’s reversal of fortune wouldn’t have happened,” Juppe told Paris-based Europe 1 in a radio interview today. The U.S. and its allies have struggled to deliver a response to the spiraling violence in Libya as a monthlong uprising against the Qaddafi’s four-decade rule suffers setbacks in the face of aerial and artillery attacks from troops loyal to the government in Tripoli. Russia, a veto-wielding member of the United Nations Security Council, said yesterday it wouldn’t support a no-fly zone at the UN unless the strategy for enforcing it was clearly defined. The G-8 is comprised of Britain, Canada, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. Leaders pushing for a no-fly zone including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron won support from regional leaders when the Arab League called on March 12 for an aerial blockade to cripple Qaddafi’s advance. From NYT But it (Saudi Arabia) now finds itself largely standing alone to face Iran since its most important ally in that fight, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, has been ousted in a popular uprising. Iran’s ally, Hezbollah, recently toppled the Saudi-backed government of Lebanon — a symbol of its regional might and Saudi Arabia’s diminishing clout.