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Obamas dangerous passivity on Egypt and Syria on display
There was hope a few months ago that mounting chaos in the Middle East, and a revamping of President Obamas national security team, would prompt the president to snap out of what looked like a deepening torpor in foreign policy.
Instead, this presidents extraordinary passivity in the face of crisis may have achieved its apotheosis this week. On Wednesday, as Egyptian security forces gunned down hundreds of civilians in the streets of Cairo, an unperturbed Obama shot another round of golf at Marthas Vineyard. His deputy press secretary was left to explain to reporters that the administration remained firmly committed to not deciding whether what had happened in Egypt was a coup.
When the president finally deigned to address the crisis himself, on Thursday morning, the result was measured rhetoric deplorable accompanied by a classic half-measure: A biennial military exercise scheduled for next month will be canceled, sparing the White House some unseemly photo ops. But the deeper relationship with the Egyptian military, including $1.3 billion in annual aid, remains in place.
The crisis in Egypt has been distracting attention from the civil war in Syria, where Obamas stubborn refusal to act has facilitated the emergence of the largest and potentially most dangerous incarnation of al-Qaeda since pre-2001 Afghanistan. Between them, Egypt and Syria prevent most people from thinking much about Yemen except when an al-Qaeda plot to take over much of the country prompts the closure of the U.S. Embassy and a frantic-looking burst of drone strikes. And never mind Bahrain, another close U.S. ally where another autocratic regime is brutally suppressing protests this week without a peep of objection from Washington.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obamas-dangerous-passivity-on-egypt-on-display/2013/08/15/69d085fc-0522-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html
That's several days that the front page op-eds have attacked the President.
Watch for a 'coincidental' sale on books written by neocons in the Kindle store.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)That was the first comment in that editorial's comment section. That newspaper has room for improvement. This editorial isn't the Amazon guy's doing .
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)I never saw anybody post here that "The Bradley Family's newspaper..." does something egregious.
Yes, Jeff Bezos bought the paper (don't know if the deal has been finalized, though...) But it's stupid to blame every opinion expressed in the paper on Bezos.
Bezos has not exerted any editorial control, that I've heard of.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Have you ever actually bought a newspaper? As in, a physical, printed newspaper? Opinion and editorial generally goes to the back. And George Will and Jackson Diehl aren't saying anything they wouldn't have said when the Graham family still owned the Washington Post. It's not like a change of ownership suddenly made them decide to unleash their festering resentment of Obama and let out their inner right-winger.
RedstDem
(1,239 posts)Amazon's CEO's newspaper...shees
how long has he owned it by now?, a whole week?
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher of that newspaper. Commentary articles are the opinions of the writers. Newspapers typically present opinions from more than one side of any issue on the editorial page.
This has nothing to do with Bezos.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Dressed in teenage ninja turtle costumes.
But for the record, this writer has been espousing war as a solution to whatever ails the earth for as long as I can remember. He'd write the same wherever he was working. The only paper he should probably have is TP paper but whadda ya' gonna do..
mick063
(2,424 posts)When were spectators of widespread butchering in Rwanda and Bosnia for far too long.
There is a threshold where oppression evolves into slaughter on a massive scale. Often, it appears that we selectively choose our definition of that threshold.
In every other circumstance, military adventure was either appropriately timed or not needed at all.
mathematic
(1,430 posts)I really think your posts on Google, Amazon, Samsung, and other Apple competitors should come with a disclaimer.