Dante Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Obama has Middle East "adventures"? Can you even name one? Maybe I should have said misadventures. I'm thinking of the apology tour he engaged in when he first took office. Backing a bunch anarchist's muslims in Egypt. The latest cover up in Libya. Leaking sensitive info to the press on US covert missions just to enhance the perception of his handling of the mid east.
DC Tom Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Maybe I should have said misadventures. I'm thinking of the apology tour he engaged in when he first took office. Backing a bunch anarchist's muslims in Egypt. The latest cover up in Libya. Leaking sensitive info to the press on US covert missions just to enhance the perception of his handling of the mid east. He backed somebody in Egypt? I thought he just didn't back Mubarak. I suppose, in that case, a complete lack of action qualifies as an "adventure". Maybe.
TakeYouToTasker Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Maybe I should have said misadventures. I'm thinking of the apology tour he engaged in when he first took office. Backing a bunch anarchist's muslims in Egypt. The latest cover up in Libya. Leaking sensitive info to the press on US covert missions just to enhance the perception of his handling of the mid east. Libya is not technically part of the Middle East.
DC Tom Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Libya is not technically part of the Middle East. Technically, yeah. But culturally, at this point in time, one could make the argument. DOD puts Libya in AFRICOM'S responsibility, not CENTCOM (which commands in the Middle East). State lumps them with the Middle East under the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau. So even the government's inconsistent on it (which actually seems kind-of stupid, given the current international environment).
TakeYouToTasker Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Meh... it's all post-colonial Euro-centric bull **** anyway. All that really matters is that they have more sand, oil, camelidae, figs, and burkas than I do.
DC Tom Posted October 19, 2012 Posted October 19, 2012 Meh... it's all post-colonial Euro-centric bull **** anyway. In other words...Hitler did it. [/godwin]
TakeYouToTasker Posted October 19, 2012 Posted October 19, 2012 In other words...Hitler did it. [/godwin] Oddly enough, the whole **** storm started with the actions of a Turkish revolutionary named Enver Pasha in the early 1900's.
DC Tom Posted October 19, 2012 Posted October 19, 2012 Oddly enough, the whole **** storm started with the actions of a Turkish revolutionary named Enver Pasha in the early 1900's. Well, if you really want to pick nits that badly, you may as well blame it on Lord Palmerston.
TakeYouToTasker Posted October 19, 2012 Posted October 19, 2012 Well, if you really want to pick nits that badly, you may as well blame it on Lord Palmerston. I'd go back as far as Cromwell, but !@#$ that bastard Palmerston anyway.
DC Tom Posted October 19, 2012 Posted October 19, 2012 I'd go back as far as Cromwell, but !@#$ that bastard Palmerston anyway. Really. **** just started going downhill when John signed the Magna Carta, that !@#$.
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