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Originally Posted by Krazygrrl
And more excuses for Obama.... there are some that would not be happy had he said no (I would have been, and would have actually praised him for doing so). Some attacked him for not taking enough action. Ultimately, he grossly overstepped. He is a naive, dangerous man who honestly believes that the Arabs want "democracy". They do not - look what has happened in Egypt, Tunisia, Afghanistan... in Iran in 1979.. etc. Obama simply cannot learn and everything he has done shows that he is in way over his head.
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God Damn you're a one note song.
No, I don't believe he has any misconception about Utopian democracy over there. That's why the Egypt thing was so difficult. They stood with ole Mubarak as long as they could. It was quite the dance. It's a much harder nut to crack now with all the "democracy" breaking out. But talk aobut a no win situation- we're all for democracy, and we're fighting a war in Iraq ostesibly to bring democracy to the region. But we don't want you guys to have democracy. I mean, we didn't engineer it. If you guys can vote for anyone you want, you might vote for folks we don't much like. It was a tough one. Once it was obvious taht Mubarak was going, they had to shift gears pretty quickly. Last thing we wanted to be was the gang trying to keep them from freedom. It would make it much harder for us to have any influence at all.
The Libya thing is similar. Say what you will, the folks who come to power in Libya have us to thank for it. I'd wager there's a good deal of back and forth going on taht we don't know about working to make it more friendly to us. And we have a leg to stand on since we helped out.
I'm not sure about Tunisa. That thing could go badly. Probably one of the factors that went into the decision making in Libya. If we see a shot at having a friendly in the area, sure will make things easier if some of the others break the wrong way.
And for the record, you wouldn't praise Obama if he single handedly ballanced the budget, brought about world peace and invented ice cream that makes you healthy.