Watching the events unfold in Egypt the past couple of weeks have made it patently obvious to even the most casual of observers that foreign policy under the Obama Administration can most charitably be described as hapless.
CIA Chief Leon Panetta said Mubarek would most likely be stepping down. DNI Gen. James Clapper said the Muslim Brotherhood was now very secular and had all but renounced violence. President Obama has been telling Mubarek that he needs to move aside “yesterday”.
Everybody in the Administration has been either flat-out wrong on their predictions, or willing to throw a long-time ally under the bus, even if that would leave a dangerous power vacuum. Obama said “I just want to say that we are following today’s events in Egypt very closely. We’ll have more to say as this plays out. But what is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold.” The only thing is, he doesn’t know what history is unfolding.
From Mubarek:
And I tell you here, as a head of state, I do not find any embarrassment at all in listening to the youth of my country, and to satisfying their demands. But the embarrassment would only lie in the fact — and I would never permit — is that I would listen to any sort of intervention that would come from outside, from the outside world, whatever the source is, whatever the intention behind them are.
Looks like he told Obama to get lost and stop calling him.
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