The statements from our leaders urging the existing Egyptian government to exercise restraint as it deals with protesters in the street are a source of amusement to me.
Not knowing anything else to say, Obama and Hillary are busy making "Please don't hurt the people" noises. How quaint. Just a couple of weeks ago these same two were proclaiming Julian Assange a traitor for telling the truth. A traitor? Doesn't one first need to be a member of the club to betray it? I believe Mr. Assange is not a citizen of this nation and by definition is not a traitor. How quick they were to spread the trumped up sex charges leveled at him by a couple of prostitutes. Jeeze - how much longer should we hold our noses over that mess?
Too bad Doug MacArthur isn't around to teach Mubarak the gentle tactics he used against the WWI Vets. Or, maybe Lon Horiuchi can train the Egyptians in the restrained use of firearms. We could always have a member of the ATF explain the proper way to use a tank to dissuade citizens from teaching their children. Gimme a break. Our leaders should look to their own actions and not get in the way of another people trying to win the same freedom we won, and are now losing, back in 1776.
I know what you're gonna say - "That's all ancient history. It happened on someone else's watch." OK - How about this? http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-12-16/news/the-feds-bury-border-patrol-abuses-of-immigrants-but-what-s-been-unearthed-reveals-a-culture-of-cruelty/#
If, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, you believe in the right of people to be free then say it. If you believe in democracy then say it. If you would rather have a dictator in Egypt then say that. But, don't lecture other people without cleaning your own house first.
If you don't believe in the peoples right to govern themselves maybe you should look for different work. I'm sure, Mrs. Clinton, you could go into a career for which you have been trained - trading cattle futures. I've heard you do quite well at that. And Mr. Obama, I understand there's an opening coming up on the PTA board in Harper Valley. Bet you can handle it!
The Obama and Clinton blather is them running their mouths cause they think they are supposed to say something, but are clueless as to what to say. As you pointed out a while ago, from Tunesia to Egypt, the people of the middle east are fed up and aren't going to take it any more. The best thing the US can do is stay the heck out of it and let them fight for their own freedom. The biggest problem is that in the middle east, the solution always seems to be to let the clerics run the country, so they move from a dictatorship to a church state that tends to be even more ruthless to it's own people than the dictatorship.
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