Dems Begin Blaming CIA for Losing Egypt
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 4, 2011, 5:51 AM
Well they can’t blame the tea party or Sarah Palin…
Democrats are already blaming the CIA for losing Egypt.
People pray in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo’s main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
The Politico reported, via FOX Nation:
The debate over who “lost” Egypt seems to have begun.
Critics are openly questioning the quality of information and analysis given to President Barack Obama by U.S. intelligence agencies in the days leading up to the dramatic uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. And they are raising questions about the effectiveness of his efforts to force the 82-year-old strongman to step down.
Administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, admit that some mistakes were made and some signals were missed. And, even as they frantically try to negotiate Mubarak’s departure and avert more violence, they argue that their options and leverage would have been limited even had Obama been warned long in advance of the unrest that would sweep Egypt.
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Sandy commented:
The other day I read in The Telegraph that Obama had planned for regime change in Egypt since he got into office. Now we hear its the CIA who gave Obama poor information. One thing is sure — Obama screws up and its always someone else’s fault.
CDR M commented:
Well, what exactly did Obama do when this started? Did he call for more information and analysis and have more meetings or did he just continue to party, go to B-Ball games and Golf? It wasn’t like he was getting up at the crack of dawn and having emergency meetings was he? Seems he was still getting his LATE morning 10 am briefs.
kansas commented:
That would be CYA not CIA.
jd commented:
If they are saying this, then it means they know Egypt is lost. So now it is cover Obama time.
Although Carter is known for losing Iran, Obama will be known for losing the entire middle east.
dunce commented:
Remember their promises of how they were going use “smarter” diplomacy and now after two years of apologizing for our past accomplishments in preserving the peace through out most of the world most of the time and portraying these efforts as imperialism, they are looking for scapegoats for their bumbling blunders and failures by omission. As jim nabors used to say on his comedy show “surprise,surprise”.
bg commented:
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echoes of Reid, idiots!!
Egypt is not “lost”..
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mg4us commented:
Agree with Sandy. .bet Obama and his team are working up a story to either blame Bush or Palin (after all Sarah cannot see Egypt from her house! You betcha!) or the Tea Party. . .
Oh, speaking of the Tea Party. . . Interesting how Democrats and liberal media ignore, downplay or disregard the PEACEFUL Tea Party gatherings on the Mall in DC in front of the US Capitol or in cities ALL across America. . . for issues pertinent to OUR country which AFFECT EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN but give prime time coverage to the ANGRY MOB of hoodlums, criminals and Anti-American low-life in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. . .
Maybe the CIA should put the “Intelligence” back in it’s name and start investigating enemies “foreign and Domestic” starting with the US liberal media. Now that would be Hope & Change!
cal rifkin commented:
Carter and Obama – two useless feckless fools…All you’ll hear from the media is just how goshdarn smart they are…I just heard again about Obama’s great gifts ( Halperin ), and the libs just love ‘em. But, fools they are, and the U.S. will never be the same for the damage they’ve done. The bozos in the media are responsible for putting this guy in the position he’s in, and we’ll all keep holding our breath ’til he’s refudiated at the polls in 2012.
IOpian commented:
I think it is a false assumption that ‘we’ could do anything about this or that anybody in the US government ‘lost’ Egypt. We should focus on getting our presence out of the country to avoid an unwanted situation like 1979. Try to stay on the sidelines and wait for this thing to settle itself out. Anything we attempt will likely be according to the law of reversed effort. The more we try the more likely we will alienate the populace further. However, Egypt should get no more monetary support from us until we see a responsible democratic solution emerge.
bg commented:
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Freedpm & Democracy
mini-flashback
Standing with Our Brother-in-Blogging
[Over the last several years, our brother-in-blogging in Cairo, the Egyptian Sandmonkey, has made a name for himself as one of the Middle East’s most irreverent commentators. Anti-anti-Bush and anti-anti-Zionist, his free-wheeling blog, where he often responds to commenters—especially of the Islamist and Arab nationalist variety—is also a menu of his appetites for, among others, women, food, drink, and freedom. A supporter of the freedom agenda in the Middle East before there was a Freedom Agenda, it is hardly surprising that Sandmonkey went to the streets last week in Cairo with thousands of other Egyptians to demand his freedom. His blog is now down and we have word from Egypt that he was arrested and beaten and now, according to his account here in the Guardian, released.]
mini-forward:
Sandmonkey
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bg commented:
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re: #10
Egypt, right now!
[Now, just in case this isn't clear: This protest is not one made or sustained by the Muslim Brotherhood, it's one that had people from all social classes and religious background in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood only showed up on Tuesday, and even then they were not the majority of people there by a long shot. We tolerated them there since we won't say no to fellow Egyptians who wanted to stand with us, but neither the Muslims Brotherhood not any of the Opposition leaders have the ability to turn out one tenth of the numbers of Protesters that were in Tahrir on Tuesday. This is a revolution without leaders. Three Million individuals choosing hope instead of fear and braving death on hourly basis to keep their dream of freedom alive. Imagine that.]
Godspeed Egyptian Liberation!!
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cal rifkin commented:
Suuure, it’s nobody’s fault, and everyone’s covering their asses. The administration would not hesitate to crow about a positive outcome, and herald the great Obama. So it follows that Obama and Carter are forever and justifiably tied to big foreign policy failures. The annual expenses associated with a hostile Egypt will dwarf the amount ponied up annually as foreign aid.
NeoKong commented:
Gee….so putting a guy with no military or intelligence experience in charge of the CIA might not have been a good idea…?
Go figure.
What’s next ?
Will someone suggest that putting a person with no military or intelligence experience in charge of the DHS wasn’t such a good idea either…?
Muffin commented:
Good grief i just read this information about Obama’s Brotherhood. I mean, I knew this stuff just from seeing how these people act, but it’s creepy seeing it all written up like this.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article%20pdfs/Shariah%20-%20The%20Threat%20to%20America%20(Team%20B%20Report)%2009142010.pdf
dave in dallas commented:
Poor schmucks in the CIA.. they spent all that time trying to trip up Bush and ruin his running of the wars… they established that their bureaucracy was from top to bottom completely riddled with leftists.. and what’s their reward? Thrown under the bus by Obama for convenience.
They wasted all their betraying on the wrong president.
donh commented:
Egypt is one of the few Islamic countries we could count on to work with our CIA to keep an eye on Muslim Brotherhood activities and provide tips for pending terrorist attacks. This source will be completely lost if Obama gets his way in turning Egypt over to the pro Iranian Islamo fascists. Terror strikes will grow more numerous and deadly .
mcc commented:
#15, Muffin —
Bill O. ought to read that report you linked and then grill the heck out of BO on Sunday.
I can dream.
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