tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264148977155820969.post7693621895288179519..comments2024-01-28T15:51:01.643-05:00Comments on Spirit of a Progressive: Barack Obama’s Precarious DancePeter Feganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10949239024795435039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264148977155820969.post-28325072608708393602011-02-04T12:33:20.274-05:002011-02-04T12:33:20.274-05:00good points, Steve.
the US is very good at pickin...good points, Steve.<br /><br />the US is very good at picking the scabs, whether or not we're consciously aware of it - whether or not we're deliberate about it. Obama has been playing the game of propping up dictators as well (cf, Pakistan) for our benefit.<br /><br />It'd be nice if we really did stay out of it, or come together with the UN or a true coalition to help ease the transition - at least for the people's sake. but generally, we should stay out of civil fights unless invited by all partitions.jasdyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17492591447246532970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264148977155820969.post-68448644375274360032011-02-02T10:26:39.575-05:002011-02-02T10:26:39.575-05:00It has been really interesting and pathetically co...It has been really interesting and pathetically comical watching our govt. dance over this. The situation in Egypt exposes who we really are as a nation: a republic acting like an empire pretending to be a democracy. I was in the car yesterday when I heard the Admin's suggestion that Mubarak not run in the fall election. I laughed so hard I almost drove off the road. Rather too late for that, isn't it? Like Hitler promising to give back the Sudetenland with the Russians 3 miles from Berlin. Kennedy said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." I also laughed at Obama's remark that the US has no right to dictate who will rule other governments. I hope people all over the world heard that one, especially the people of Haiti; they could use a laugh just now. If this revolution goes sour, we will have only ourselves to blame.stevenoreply@blogger.com