Something odd is going on with United States foreign and defense policy. To begin with it is obvious that the political leverage of the U.S. with Egypt is embarrassingly weak – perhaps even non-existent. Whatever happened to the U.S. Embassy with its extensive collection of political officers and contacts throughout Egypt?
- Red lines in Syria, no mater how pedantically they are now being explained away and refined, are ignored.
- Rules of engagement on Egyptian aid are disregarded.
- NSA operations are authorized and encouraged even when contrary to stated Administration ambitions of transparency.
- White House was unwilling to recognize that radical Islam’s Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt had subverted the democratic process in an effort to turn that country into a Sunni version of Iran.
The Obama Administration has prided itself on the ability to bewilder the press and public with cleverly devised exposition. In fact the president has led his communication troops in irrelevance and non-sequitur to cover what is really happening.
The key to the current Washington administration is its belief that it has the right – historic right – to a public positioning on all issues that presents the presidency in a favorable light, while actually proceeding covertly to accomplish contrary goals that are advantageous to Obama’s political ideology and ambition.
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