White House sticking to Yemen success
With the country spinning out of control. The White House still thinks they have a successful strategy. The democracy they tried to set up there has collapsed. The president fled the country and the place is lawless. Just more rhetoric from the press secretary.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-obama-still-calls-yemen-a-success/article/2562059
Re: White House sticking to Yemen success
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
With the country spinning out of control. The White House still thinks they have a successful strategy. The democracy they tried to set up there has collapsed. The president fled the country and the place is lawless. Just more rhetoric from the press secretary.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-obama-still-calls-yemen-a-success/article/2562059
Originally posted by Omega Vision
What exactly do you think a Republican president would have done in his position?
Who gives a fck what the Republican's are doing. How many times have I told you, I'm not republican. You keep saying the saying thing "THE REPUBLICANS!!!"
That's like your go to argument every time.
Your answer to everything is blame republicans because you can't take accountability for what our own party is doing.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Who gives a fck what the Republican's are doing. How many times have I told you, I'm not republican. You keep saying the saying thing "THE REPUBLICANS!!!"That's like your go to argument every time.
Your answer to everything is blame republicans because you can't take accountability for what our own party is doing.
Let's remove "Republican" from the equation. Let's say you, a non-partisan president who ran as an independent, are in Obama's place. What do you do about Yemen? What's your strategy when the revolution starts?
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'm not blaming Republicans for anything lol, I'm asking a hypothetical question that you're apparently scared of answering.Let's remove "Republican" from the equation. Let's say you, a non-partisan president who ran as an independent, are in Obama's place. What do you do about Yemen? What's your strategy when the revolution starts?
I would quit claiming it as a success, and either say it was a failure, or an administration oversight, or just withdraw from talking about it, and talking it up to something its not.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
I would quit claiming it as a success, and either say it was a failure, or an administration oversight, or just withdraw from talking about it, and talking it up to something its not.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Considering the hands off policy of the administration, prolly nothing.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Oh your asking what would I have done?I would not have messed with it at all, all Obama did was de stabalize it.
From what I understand, the revolution was an internal matter, and all America did was put diplomatic pressure on Saleh to leave, but that was after the country was already falling apart and armed factions developing.
So, yes, maybe if Obama hadn't leaned on Saleh to leave, he'd still be president and there'd be a slim chance that the revolution would be quietly squashed, but think about the implications of that. Wouldn't you be disgusted if our president said and did nothing while a dictator crushed dissent? I don't think you're being fair at all to Obama here, and from what I know about you, I don't think you'd have sat quietly and watched Saleh crush his opposition.
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
He had a prime example.. Bush. Which he campaigned he was massively different from. Turns out. Not so much.
Libya's a better example, but this time there actually were people in that country begging for American intervention, the Western Europeans were 100% behind Obama, and Obama's fear of getting into a quagmire like Iraq actually shaped his policy of "light touch," which ended up being a long term disaster for a lot of reasons. Obama's made mistakes, some really big ones, but not for lack of learning from Bush's.