tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post1233825051338600027..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: America's future role in the Middle EastDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-68938295955393059302011-02-12T13:54:51.845+01:002011-02-12T13:54:51.845+01:00The US role in the Middle East is that of a client...The US role in the Middle East is that of a client state of Israel and will remain so, given MuBarak Obama's lecturing Egyptians on the necessity of maintaining the 30 year peace accord with Israel as his immediate response to their astounding, peaceful overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. The mere fact that Obama could not simply congratulate the Egyptian people on their amazing achievement, or express humble stupefaction in regards to their non-violent insistence to be heard without sullying his response with the standard US pro-Israeli line says nothing is to be expected from the US in relation to "peace" in the Middle East. Would that he practiced a tad of the non-violent force for change that he gave lip-service to in his shallow response to Egypt's huge accomplishment (regardless of how it will now play out) in his approach to Afghanistan. For American media, the Egyptian uprising was almost soley presented through an Israeli lens and the usual fear-mongering about radical Islam takeover. It seems, as someone pointed out, that for Americans to support democracy, we have to bring it through military intervention; brown people can't do it on their own. Their is no role for a country so lost in its own delusions or that of its client state, Israel.stuntednoreply@blogger.com