Walid Phares is an American mideast expert who lives in Lebanon. On speaking of Obama's visit in Cairo tomorrow, he said “[Obama] criticized President Bush for taking action to spread democracy."
What a great president we have.
Ok, on the basis of this statement it sounds like we have an awful president, but, as far as foreign policy goes, we don't have an awful president. Obama intends to work with the regimes in place and use diplomacy for the good of stability.
Now it doesn't sound so bad, huh.
I mean, I can understand how important stability is. In fact, one of the reasons I supported the war in Iraq was for the stability of the middle East. And after Al Qaeda made Iraq the front of the war on Terror, it was almost entirely based upon the stability of the middle East that I supported the surge and Bush's perseverance in keeping our troops there. I have no problem with "stability."
I mean, the US has pursued "stability" in the mideast for, I don't know, always, and look where it's gotten us! It's a surefire strategy if you ask me! Oh wait. It's been failing for decades...
I'm glad our new president sees the urgency in ignoring the politically oppressed in Egypt and elsewhere as he continues using the most powerful country in the entire world's retarded policy of merely pursuing the eternally elusive "stability" in middle East affairs.
I mean, it's not like Obama cares about "victims" or anything, right?
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Well, this ties in with your last point, really. The existence of armies and especially those of (Western, democratic) superpowers are the cause of pretty much all the world's unease and hence hostilities. President Obama is merely pursuing a strategy from that standpoint, one that assumes that if we finally butt out and hopefully also get Israel to stop fighting for its own survival, peace in that region will at long last be achieved.
And in way, he's right.
What makes me say Obama is a terrible president is the following: Lets say congress passed a terrible bill. An awful bill that should never be passed. He would have signed it. He signed the Stimulus bill, for example. Did he read it? Did anyone read it in its entirety? I mean is there some brainiac that actually read the thing and said, 'This is awesome.' The answer is no. None has a clue. Yet it was signed into law. This means, we're making laws that noone understands. This is why so many people are angry. IT has nothing to do with race. Now imcompetence. That is what is the matter. We want competence but we're given these crap for brains.
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