At the start of the recent Egyptian revolution the normally loquacious
US government was very quiet. The Egyptian riots were all over the news but for several days the
US said nothing. Clearly they were waiting to see how it went before taking sides. After several days of watching, they wound up the rusty mechanical spring of talking head Hillary Clinton who asked
Egypt's leaders not to cut off the Internet and cell phone service in order to control the crowds. Shortly thereafter, pro Mubarak forces cut off the cell phone and Internet service. After that, useless Hillary publicly asked Egyptian leaders to let the people demonstrate and to not bring in the military. Boom! In rolled the tanks although they did not appear to takes sides at first.
Upon realizing that Hillary is viewed as a joke by the rest of the world, Obama began adding his two cents to the situation. Before Obama opened his pie hole, it actually looked like the Egyptian people were going to force Mubarak out under fairly peaceful terms. But after Obama sided with the people calling for Mubarak to leave immediately, guess what? Mubarak dug his heels in and convinced the military to side with him. I guess throwing one's puppet government under the bus like that can have unintended consequences.
I can just hear the anti Mubarak crowd telling Obama ”Dooooh! Stop helping us and get off of our side of this dispute!”.
Americans need to stay the Hell out of other people's business just as the founding fathers advised us to do. In the words of George Washington we should "avoid foreign entanglements". Yes we do have legitimate concerns about stability in the region because we are overly dependent on foreign oil. But it’s about time that we figure out that our presence is no longer being viewed as a source of stability but rather as a disruptive source which causes turbulence. Recent events associated with Hillary and Obama trying to tell others how to live may or may not just be coincidental and should be viewed as data points in understanding the bigger picture but if we begin to see a pattern of this then perhaps we should take the hint.
By the way, if there is ever large scale unrest and demonstrating in the
US, rest assured that our leaders will not follow their own advice. Take for example,
Senate bill S.3480 which would give Obama the power to shut down the Internet basically for whatever reason he deems necessary.
Our political leaders have long ago exposed themselves to be two faced liars who tell others to "do as I say and not as I do". The ongoing banking debacle contains proof after proof after proof of this. First we accuse
China of being currency manipulators but then we artificially drive our short term interest rates down to nearly zero. That is certainly a form of currency manipulation. In addition, by July 2011 Bernanke will have tripled the monetary base since the crash began in 2008. That is absolutely currency manipulation! And how many times have the
US and its IMF debt slave control mechanism told 3rd world debtor nations to increase taxes and consume less (AKA “austerity measures”) so that they could pay their debt down or at least reduce their deficit? At the same time the US is the most indebted nation in the history of man and it appears to me as if we have absolutely no intention of ever paying anything back. In fact, our deficit continues to increase exponentially. Talk about double standard!
Bottom line is that our leaders are just as self serving as they can possibly be and everyone else knows it.
Many Americans are finally waking up to this truth as well even though it pains us greatly to do so. At this point it would be best if they would just sit down and shut the Hell up so that they stop building up new hate against
America and her people. The fools, con men and liars in DC certainly do not speak for me. I am embarrassed for them because they are too shameless to feel any embarrassment for themselves.
