If you think Obama dropped the ball in Libya and the Middle East, what would he do with social unrest in China?
Michael Haltman | February 28, 2011
If you thought the Obama response to Libya was painfully slow and painfully impotent, how do you suppose he would deal with a social uprising taking place in China?
The unrest in
Libya was days old and increasingly
violent before
President Obama finally got around to making a public statement. In the eventual speech in which he neglected to name the despot dictator
Gaddafi by name, there was "no
passion in his voice,
no anger in his eyes and
his actual words are (were), unfortunately, the
fodder for the jokes of late-night comedians (TPC).
At the end of the day the excuse given by the administration for the President's reaction was that American's were still in Libya and to respond overtly would have put them in more danger.
Once these Americans were out however, the extent of Obama's response was the imposition of sanctions on a man who the consensus agrees is certifiably insane. Who, along with his son, have said that they will fight to the death. Who have hired mercenaries and have armed loyalists to kill unarmed protesters.
What effect does Obama believe that these sanctions will have on Gaddafi?
Lest I forget, the President also made the following statement, not to Gaddafi but to Angela Merkel of Germany. Again, this is akin to telling Hitler that he needed to step down:
“... when a leader's only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now"
Author's note to President Obama: Your actions to date in the Libyan crisis and around the Middle East have been a national embarrassment.
Speaking of Libya goes I would suggest a Plan B to sanctions as the leader of that country is insane, mad, unhinged, sick, disturbed, demented, crazy, delirious, and unbalanced, rendering sanctions useless.
Middle East style unrest in China?
Now, if you are disgusted by the Obama administration reaction to events in the Middle East, a region that is critical to United States national interests and those of our allies, how do you suppose it will respond in the event social unrest rises to a crisis level in China?
The Middle East is energy. China is everything else. As stated before the United States has been placed, or more accurately placed itself, in a position with China whereby the communist country could potentially bring us to our knees without ever having to fire a shot.
It can only be assumed that the Chinese government will not allow anything that even remotely looks like Middle East style social unrest to foment there, but as we have seen it can sometimes be beyond a governments control to stop it.
Power of the Chinese government on display
"... But a few blocks away the other China – the unreformed police state – was in full view for anyone who happened to spend their Sunday on the popular Wangfujing pedestrian mall near Tiananmen Square.
Spooked by calls for a “jasmine revolution” in China, hundreds of police (and more than 100 police vehicles) were deployed around the expected protest site, checking passports, detaining foreign journalists and locking hundreds of bewildered shoppers inside a McDonald’s restaurant and a nearby mall for half an hour around the time the demonstration was scheduled to begin.
Foreign reporters who made it through the dragnet were chased in circles by orange-jacketed men with brooms, who seemed more intent on whacking people on the ankles than sweeping any dust. Soon there was no dust – and few pedestrians – left on Wangfujing after a row of water trucks drove up and down Beijing's busiest shopping street giving it a lengthy and unnecessary mid-Sunday afternoon spray.
Human rights groups say police have also questioned or detained more than 100 people, since the first calls for a “jasmine revolution” began circulating online last weekend. Five individual are said to be facing subversion or national security charges.
The display of force made any sort of public protest impossible Sunday, and called into question the future of the movement hoping to spark a popular uprising against the Communist Party akin to those sweeping the Middle East. While a crowd of several hundred people gathered at a designated protest site in Shanghai amid a similarly heavy police presence, there were no reports of demonstrations in 25 other cities targeted by the unnamed “jasmine” organizers..."
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If you thought the Obama response to Libya was painfully slow and painfully impotent, how do you suppose he would deal with a social uprising taking place in China?
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