As Egypt continues to burn... Islamic radicals escaped from prison, the Muslim Brotherhood joined Elbaradei on the street, and socialists continued to mobilize protests in Cairo... Barack Obama watched basketball and partied on Saturday.
As thirty years of United States Middle East strategy teeters on collapse, Barack Obama spent Saturday night at a going away party for David Axelrod who is leaving the administration to set up Obama's reelection campaign in Chicago.
But didn't Obama go around the Middle East bowing to Arab leaders?
And didn't he give a speech to the Muslim world in Cairo in June, 2009? That should have taken care of everything right?
Barack Obama's mention of "nearly seven million American Muslims" in the course of his rambling and complex six-thousand-word speech to the Muslim world from Cairo symbolized the whole message.
Jimmy Carter has gone down in history as the President who lost Iran.
Barack Obama will go down in history as the President who lost Egypt.
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