U.S. Paid a price for Egypt

[Aardvark154]

President Obama's first National Security Advisor in a talk before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce admitted that the U.S. has paid a price for its decision to not support Hosni Mubarak.

“Our policy with regard to Mubarak as interpreted by some of our closest Arab allies in the Gulf has not gone over well. In their interpretation our dumping President Mubarak very hastily, answered the question of what we would be likely to do if that happened in their countries. So there is a chasm there that somehow has to be bridged.”

Gee, I remember mentioning the same thing at the time.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-obama-adviser-u-s-paid-a-price-on-egypt.html

 

[red]

if they had supported mubarek and he still fell from power. would the US have been better off?

 

[danmand]

Imagine that. The other corrupt dictatorship allies of the US are upset that the US stopped supporting the corrupt dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak.

 

[Cobster]

...and the U.S. paid an EVEN BIGGER price for going to Iraq for all kinds of reasons.

Hope you gave yourself a cookie Aard', you certainly deserve it.



I wonder if they're taking into consideration that Obama is still selling weapons over to Bahrain as reports have come out early last month?
You know, the country which is suppressing its people from protests?
http://english.irib.ir/voj/analyses/in-depth-analysis/item/80603-why-is-obama-selling-weapons-to-the-king-of-bahrain-while-he’s-attacking-pro-democracy-protestors


On a sidenote, nice to see you're linking sites like DailyBeast and not Faux News, bravo for being RELATIVELY open minded.
I believe you linked HuffingtonPost before as well, good job dude. Goes to show the "liberal media" is pretty okay and not as bad as Faux huh?

 

[Mervyn]

The US would have been blamed regardless of what stance, or actions they did or didn't do.

 

[DATYdude]

The other question is whether the US has any influence in terms of fostering democratic institutions and pushing a-holes like Mubarak towards reform...