President Obama’s official “rebuke” of Egypt’s military junta after Wednesday’s massacres begins and ends with a single speech and the cancelling of a single, not particularly important military drill.
The speech made it immediately apparent, however, that this is far from a big deal for the president, and he repeatedly downplayed the killings of hundreds of civilians, insisting “we appreciate the complexity of the situation” and that Egypt’s democratic transition could take “generations.”
Obama even went on to fault ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who was actually elected instead of being appointed by the military, virtually unheard of in Egyptian history. Obama insisted that “many Egyptians” didn’t like Morsi and that his ouster by the military was an “opportunity to pursue a democratic path.”
Obama openly spurned questions about reducing or eliminating the $1.5 billion in annual aid to the junta, which despite being overtly against US law his administration has indicated will continue to flow. Backing the military above all else has been US policy toward Egypt for many decades, and even after the revolution, the coup and the slaughter that followed underscore how little the official US stance has changed.
Manipulation politics have no boundaries, is a flip flub act in desperation and not knowing what or whom to support or not to support, such politics creates a momentum for opportunists to have a roll in politics today but by tomorrow rises the question, to be or not to be.
I keep telling people Washington (Tel aviv West) is behind all this, everything else is for local consumption. Please America, get your paws out of our Middle East, I am sure we will work something out with the Israelis without your interference.
That´s quite a decision our man Obama is making – he is crossing US law, international law, and making it seem (even if it may not be true) that the US was behind the military takeover in the first place.
Can someone remind Obama that Morsi was elected at the poll by the people, I think Obama could learn a lot from al-Zawahiri the al-Qaeda leader.
By Obama's calculus ("Obama insisted that 'many Egyptians' didn’t like Morsi "), we need a military coup to depose him.
Come to think of it, that's not such a bad idea….
“Many Americans” don’t like Obama. So when will the US Army arrest him???
This SOB never ceases to disappoint. He's Bush with a deep tan.
Blatant ugliness, and abuses of power ! meanwhile, The American sheeple are shopping to bad muzak.
He engineered the coup and will gonto any length to keep them in power. The problem is tha 90% of people are against the hunta.. But it os not likely that the army will continue to kill its people without revolt