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How Obama Got It Wrong in Egypt

How Obama Got It Wrong in Egypt

August 19, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

President Obama has just made a fateful choice in Egypt. He has chosen a side in the violent confrontation between supporters of the nation’s first elected president and the army generals who deposed him in a coup six weeks ago….

New York Times: Complicit in the destruction of Egyptian democracy

New York Times: Complicit in the destruction of Egyptian democracy

August 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

U.S. policy is clear: No democracy for Islamic majorities. Why does the media parrot Obama’s Orwellian double talk? We finish a tragic, fateful week in Egypt. There seems no turning back from its flows of blood and its political reversals,…

Why the U.S. Is Crashing in the Middle East

Why the U.S. Is Crashing in the Middle East

August 5, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Is it too soon to suggest that the Obama administration’s Middle East policy is collapsing? An unusual spurt of news from across the region points to failed US policies: (1) The U.S. has been outpaced in the region since the Arab…

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

They still hate us: No one wants to be America, anymore

July 18, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Forget the standard lunacy that emerging nations “hate our freedoms.” They just don’t want to be Westernized It is common enough, and true, to say that what happens in Egypt as it stumbles through its political dawn or dusk —…

The Coup in Egypt: A Failure Greater than Morsi

The Coup in Egypt: A Failure Greater than Morsi

July 8, 2013 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The removal from power of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s duly elected president will never change one irrefutable truth: If you applaud or support military coups in democracies—even young, wrongheaded democracies—you aid in the making of a very messy world. Only a…

The Diminishing Role of the U.S. in the Middle East

The Diminishing Role of the U.S. in the Middle East

December 3, 2012 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

You knew something important was afoot when Israel and Hamas, the group that governs the Gaza Strip, agreed to a ceasefire in their missile-trading conflict ten days ago. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not broker this deal, as an…

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