obama MUST BE A "TERRIBLE" POKER PLAYER. EVERYTHING HE GAMBLES AND BETS ON, IS A TOTAL LOSS AND FAILURE ! ! ! ! ! Secretary of State John Kerry spent the last few weeks believing that U.S. policy in Egypt would best be served by negotiating with Interim Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, the former United Nations diplomat from Vienna who resigned his post after just 30 days, said a senior U.S. State Department official in Cairo. “ElBaradei was the wrong guy to negotiate with, but ‘S’ believed he would be able to convince Mansour and [General] Sisi. State worked almost exclusively through the guy that ended up resigning after 30 days on the job,” said the official, denoting Secretary Kerry with the State Department’s standard, “S” referral. While Kerry instructed State Department officials to focus on appealing to the former UN official-turned-failed-presidential candidate, the U.S. Department of Defense officials dealt with General Sisi, the top military official. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham flew to Egypt and met with Sisi in early August for what one official described to me as “an early attempt to show the U.S. was united.” Following the meeting and in the eight days leading up to the August 14 eruption of sectarian violence, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reportedly called Sisi upwards of 11 times to try and calm the situation while Kerry continued to work ElBaradei. Neither was successful in their efforts. Yet the Obama administration pressed on -- or rather, failed to press on with their diplomatic strategy of going through ElBaradei. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~President Obama and the first family began their eight-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard on August 10 believing the Secretary Kerry-VP ElBaradei gamble would work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Though it was clear by the time Obama finished his first round of golf that Kerry’s strategy was failing, the President decided to stay with the Kerry plan. National Security Adviser Susan Rice, too, waited for Kerry. } } } } The same U.S. official in Cairo said, “DoD was trying to convince General Sisi. I didn’t see the NSC very active. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~They deferred to the Kerry-ElBaradei discussions and that proved to be a huge mistake. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~They blew it by believing in ElBaradei.”
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:01:18 +0000
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