Obama's Treatment Of Our Allies: The Way He Abandons Mubarak Is Consistent

Say what you want about Mubarak--he is an ally of the US, who has not made a peep publicly about what kind of leader he is until now.

But at least Obama is consistent
The first clue may have been Obama's insistence that the Honduras coup was illegal and President Zelaya had to be put back into power.


As a matter of fact, Rick Richman has written about how much patience Obama has shown for our enemies:

If you can’t get Iran or North Korea to talk to you, if Russia has not exactly pushed the reset button you sent them, if China is not a country you can antagonize (if you want to continue to sell Treasury bonds), the next best thing may be to land on Honduras.

...while on the other hand, Walter Russell Mead gave a rundown last April about how the Obama administration has abused its allies:

[T]he pattern of poor relations with close allies is disturbing. Currently embroiled in a quarrel with Israel over Jewish housing construction in East Jerusalem, the administration recently angered the EU by refusing to attend a summit in Madrid, embarrassed Britain by seeming to side with Argentina over negotiations over the Falklands Islands, canceled an invitation to Afghanistan’s President Karzai, and cheesed off Brazil when President Obama made his last minute, ill-fated dash to Copenhagen to snatch the 2016 Olympics from Rio.

Obama pressed Abbas to oppose the Goldstone Report--embarrassing him in front of the Arab world.
Obama is also the one who put Abbas into a corner by insisting on making Israel issues into an issue--thus forcing Abbas to follow suit.

Now Obama is insisting that Mubarak must leave--embarrassing him in front of the Arab world.
This puts Mubarak into a corner, putting him into a position where he just leaving is thus not an option.

This is a losing foreign policy.
But at least Obama is consistent.

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