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White House Down: Obama Version
American Thinker
I don’t know how he does it, but Internet Wit Sans Peer, Iowahawk, wrapped up the week more succinctly than anyone:
BREAKING: State Department says Egyptian military overthrow spontaneous reaction to ‘White House Down’ movie”
The scandal in Benghazi still awaits a full investigation (as do the others in the to do scandal box, including the IRS abuse of Obama’s political opposition as to which the FBI still hasn’t interviewed a single targeted tea party member). In the meantime the administration’s feckless foreign policy suffered a serious blow with the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the roundup of the Moslem Brotherhood, the object of the administration’s love that dare not speak its name.
In the week that preceded the Egyptian upheaval, our always foolish Secretary of State John Kerry was playing shuttle diplomacy with himself, Israel, and a negotiating partner to be named, in the nonsensical belief that if only Israel would concede a bit more the entire Middle East would be at peace. As the marchers massed in Tahriri Square (crowd estimates were in the double digit millions) many carrying signs attacking Obama and our Ambassador Patterson as tools of Morsi and the Moslem Brotherhood, Kerry was yachting off Nantucket, or as one wag online tweeted “leading from Be-Heinz”. U.S. law precludes our giving foreign aid to administrations which rule by virtue of a coup d’état, and as the administration scolded the Egyptian military it struggled to avoid an accurate description of events, just in case it occurred to them that they might want to put that check in the mail after all.
Foreign Policy says Obama’s achieved the impossible, getting all factions angry with the U.S.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has achieved the hat trick of alienating all factions in Egypt. It neither defended nor pushed out Hosni Mubarak, thereby earning the embitterment of both the “deep state” that had been America’s ally for 30 years and liberals who agitated against it; gave the military a pass during the 18 months of its “caretaking” when policy choices and governance rules might have been established; waived congressional concerns limiting U.S. foreign aid; gave the elected government too little support to have influence; was largely silent during a crackdown on nongovernmental groups; and now condescendingly suggests Egyptians would do better to politically organize than protest.
Unlike Benghazi, where Obama disappeared when the fighting began and didn’t show up till our ambassador and his defenders were murdered, this time Obama called in his crack security team to hear him announce his “concern”.
Well, that’s the White House version. Maybe he just had travel pictures from his expensive European and African trip to show them before he heads out for his summer vacation.
