G.O.P. Hopefuls Leave Egypt Crisis To the President

[actourdreams]

WASHINGTON - A parade of prospective Republican presidential candidates has been visiting the Middle East in recent months, making pilgrimages that are the first steps in a methodical process of building credibility in foreign policy

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[escherichiacola]

The major issues of the day among most Americans are the economic issues, and the Republican Congress wants to keep the focus on those issues

Oh and abortion. But mostly abortion.

[doverz]

The major issues of the day among most Americans are the economic issues, and the Republican Congress wants to keep the focus on those issues, but foreign policy is so importan

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's a good one. Thank you for the lolz.

[haruhiko]

that the removal of Mr. Mubarak could lead to instability and the possible rise of an Islamist government.

The fact that the "M"SM keeps parroting this bullshit idea unquestioningly is really fucking disgusting.

Also:

Amazingly, there was little evidence of hostility towards America although, given the verbal antics of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton these past eight days, there might have well been. One almost felt sorry for Obama. Had he rallied to the kind of democracy he preached here in Cairo six months after his investiture, had he called for the departure of this third-rate dictator a few days ago, the crowds would have been carrying US as well as Egyptian flags, and Washington would have done the impossible: it would have transformed the now familiar hatred of America (Afghanistan, Iraq, the "war on terror", etc) into the more benign relationship which the US enjoyed in the balmy 1920s and 1930s and, indeed, despite its support for the creation of Israel, into the warmth that existed between Arab and American into the

[celtic_thistle]

DING DING DING

[thecityofdis]

Robert Fisk never fails to turn me on.

[schmiss]

Rightbloggers Credit Bush for Egypt Uprising -- Then Blame Obama for Egypt Uprising

The amount of cognitive dissonance on the right about the events in Egypt has been amusing.

[lemorttoussaint]

And in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said Tuesday, “America ought to speak with one voice, and we have one president.”

Oh really? My skepticism, let me show it to you.