Jackson Diehl: Obama’s dangerous passivity on Egypt on display http://t.co/8M6hWBvzmx via @washingtonpost
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 15, 2013
President Obama Golfs With Larry David on Martha's Vineyard http://t.co/0vlUwX1DPy
— TheWrap (@TheWrap) August 18, 2013
Obama's passivity in U.S. foreign policy, esp. in Egypt, is setting-off alarms in D.C. Old Conventional Wisdom: Nero fiddled while Rome burned. CW for 2013: Obama golfs while Egypt burns. Even while majority within pro-Obama U.S. Mainstream Media continue giving him a free pass, many at The Washington Post and other D.C. foreign policy centers are VERY ANXIOUS about Obama's lack of concern or influence, witness WaPo's Jackson Diehl's devastating column, "Obama’s Dangerous Passivity on Egypt and Syria on Display."
Consider this but a taste: "Obama looks like a president in full flight from a world that looks nothing like what he imagined when he took office." Diehl is 100% correct!
No doubt generals in #Egypt will draw appropriate conclusion from critical US statement by a deputy press secretary, while Obama plays golf
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 14, 2013
The Washington Post
Obama’s dangerous passivity on Egypt and Syria on display
By Jackson Diehl
August 15, 2013
There was hope a few months ago that mounting chaos in the Middle East, and a revamping of President Obama’s national security team, would prompt the president to snap out of what looked like a deepening torpor in foreign policy.
Instead, this president’s 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 Martha’s 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.Read the rest of the column here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obamas-dangerous-passivity-on-egypt-on-display/2013/08/15/69d085fc-0522-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html
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Jackson Diehl archives at Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/jackson-diehl/2011/02/24/ABccMXN_page.html
Our new editorial says the Obama administration is complicit in today's #Egypt violence http://t.co/qEYnd07thW
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 14, 2013
@abuaardvark and the washpost ed board are in agreement on #Egypt. http://t.co/zmavMzWuPy
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 14, 2013
The Washington Post
By Editorial Board
Egypt erupts as security forces attack Morsi supporters
August 14, 2013
The Post's powerful mince-no-words editorial includes this passage;
This refusal to take a firm stand against massive violations of human rights is as self-defeating for the United States as it is unconscionable. Continued U.S. support for the Egyptian military is helping to push the country toward a new dictatorship rather than a restored democracy. Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the coup leader, increasingly is styling himself as a national savior in the mode of such former dictators asGamal Abdel Nasser;Read the rest of the editorial at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/egypt-erupts-as-security-forces-attack-morsi-supporters/2013/08/14/f230a080-04fa-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html
Well, at least this kinda shows Syrians that there's no real conspiracy afoot. This is just how we roll these days.
— michaeldweiss (@michaeldweiss) August 15, 2013
US had several chances to demonstrate its threats to suspend aid were credible, but each time backed down. That policy has a price. #Egypt
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) August 14, 2013
Obama's ambition-free foreign policy - Michael Krepon -http://t.co/QSlOn6vxYg via @POLITICO
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 14, 2013
My colleague Eugene Robinson also thinks Obama lacks spine on #Egypt http://t.co/1pYSuHcrjt via @washingtonpost
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 16, 2013
When one of the most-dependable and prominent Obama supporters in the Washington new media, Eugene Robinson, an actual Pulitzer Prize winner, takes him to task and personally attacks his morality and lack of backbone, that's more than just news within the Beltway.
The Washington Post
A lack of spine on Egypt
By Eugene Robinson
August 15, 2013
There may be little the United States can do to end the savage bloodletting in Egypt, but at least our nation can be loyal to its ideals by bearing witness and telling the truth. In this, President Obama has failed.Read the rest of the column at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Troubling Egypt question: Is crackdown quashing Muslim Brotherhood or turning it into more lethal force? http://t.co/itMxMlrGuG via @WSJ
— Gerald F Seib (@GeraldFSeib) August 15, 2013
Events in #Egypt demand a shift in U.S. policy, says the US Working Group on Egypt http://t.co/0BOF9XBYhu
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 16, 2013
My guess is that Obama's disastrous passivity in the Middle East will end up reviving liberal internationalism http://t.co/8M6hWBvzmx
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 16, 2013
Christian Science Monitor
Why Mahmoud Badr is pro-Army, anti-Muslim Brotherhood
Interview: Mahmoud Badr, the activist whose online campaign helped to bring down Egypt's president, now supports the army attacks on the Muslim Brotherhood. Why?
By Yasmine Saleh, Reuters
August 17, 2013
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0817/Why-Mahmoud-Badr-is-pro-Army-anti-Muslim-Brotherhood
More at: http://www.csmonitor.com/content/search?SearchText=Egypt
U.S. allies were near a deal for peaceful end to Egypt crisis via @washingtonpost http://t.co/2vPffD2oKv
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) August 17, 2013
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