2/26/2011

15 Comments

1. Esperamos que sí.

   Comment by carlitos (01d172) — 2/26/2011 @ 4:49 pm

2. Castro

   Comment by sierra (121696) — 2/26/2011 @ 5:19 pm

3. Nah

   Bill Ayers and Sean Penn are part of Obama’s group think.
   Obama would support Chavez and ask the demonstrators to take their ass whupping like they deserve

   Comment by SteveG (cc5dc9) — 2/26/2011 @ 5:20 pm

4. Well, maybe we’ll see.

   Comment by Patterico (c218bd) — 2/26/2011 @ 5:21 pm

5. Chavez…
   It might start a nice wave in Latin America…
   have it roll through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and crash onto the shores of Havana.

   Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (f760ca) — 2/26/2011 @ 5:36 pm

6. Mubarak …

   Qadaffi …

   Obama … ?

   (Just hoping)

   Comment by Alasdair (205079) — 2/26/2011 @ 5:50 pm

7. http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/02/26/report-iranian-democracy-leaders-mousavi-karoubi-taken-to-secret-prison/#comments

   Comment by narciso (bf58f6) — 2/26/2011 @ 6:42 pm

8. UPDATE: King Abdullah?

   Comment by Patterico (c218bd) — 2/26/2011 @ 7:06 pm

9. Keep Chavez . . . lose Penn.

   Comment by Icy Texan (53dae7) — 2/27/2011 @ 2:37 am

10. Re; the King Abdullah link. Check out the picture that tops the story; My God, that’s a creepy looking trio of smiles! I wouldn’t trust any of them with a used camel dealership.

    Comment by C. S. P. Schofield (71781e) — 2/27/2011 @ 6:31 am

11. Egypt, Libya, and anti-American sentiment is emerging in Bahrain, Yemen, and Tunisia. Instead of another Carter who lost a Middle East country, Obama could be the President who lost the bulk of the Arab world.

    Comment by DRJ (fdd243) — 2/27/2011 @ 11:33 am

12. DRJ; the “bulk of the Arab world” was lost over the course of 60 years or more of post colonial diplomacy that punished moderate governments that dealt realistically with fanatics while rewarding extremists. The relatively tolerant cultures of places like Iran and Lebanon got replaced by nut-job dominated chaos.

    I don’t like Obama either, and he isn’t helping, but he didn’t do this one by himself.

    Comment by C. S. P. Schofield (71781e) — 2/27/2011 @ 1:39 pm

13. Deserved or not, Presidents are linked to events that happen on their watch. However, I also believe that a President’s term is defined even more by how he responds to a crisis. Obama’s response has been tentative and aimless, but that can change and I hope it does.

    Comment by DRJ (fdd243) — 2/27/2011 @ 1:53 pm

14. It is an unfortunate fact-of-life that State, and several other institutions central to foreign-policy in DC, have been overcome for decades with “clientitist“, and that the money that the al-Sauds hand-out to the various think-tanks and “schools of diplomacy” in the Ivy’s have created a point-of-view that is detrimental to American democratic interests.

    Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (7c5a79) — 2/27/2011 @ 3:07 pm

15. en,Obama could be the President who lost the bulk of the Arab world.We oppose war.Pray for the Libyan people.

    Comment by portuguese water dog (a42373) — 3/21/2011 @ 6:42 pm

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