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| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Kevin, as a foreigner, I can see why Obama has not said anything yet. If he says a word, it'll be easy to blame the US for the riots, and Anti-American sentiments are so strong in the area that they may see his well-intended interference as an unnecessary meddling with their own affairs.
Believe me, if it happened in Brazil (back when we had our very own dictatorship... which the US supported, by the way) that's exactly what would've happened. Nationalism is that stupid. |
yeah... I hear you man. what you're saying makes sense. it's just that, in the past, our presidents would stand up and immediately denounce that behavior by a government against its people and back the people.
Check out what Libya's ambassador to the US just said:
| quote: | “I want the U.S. to tell the world and to work with the countries who love peace…they have to stop this,” Ambassador Ali Ojli said, suggesting that he had resigned his post, in an interview with Al Jazeera English.
“I would never ask us to intervene physically in Libya,” he said, but called on the Obama Administration to “take a strong position that what’s happening in libya must be stopped now… and to avoid giving the impression to the Arab world that the West “has only a materialist mind — they don’t care about human rights… except when it comes to their own interest.”
“You see them raising their voices about iran … because they have some interest in in Iran…. When it comes to other countries they don’t raise their voice,” he said, adding that the Arab and Muslim world won’t “trust america or the west if they behave that way.” |
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