Musings on a delicate situation

[hootinholler]

I really feel for the President. I wouldn't want to have to make the choices he's having to make right now, or perhaps I would but they would be vastly different.

He is faced with the deposing of a dictatorial puppet with 30 years of dirt on the Christians In Action's black rendition sites. He was the go to guy when they needed someone roughed up at arms length, but bet your ass they had at least remote observation capability if not skin in the game on site. Most likely both.

So what happens if a democratically elected government in Egypt goes after Mubarak for his own torture program?

Do we bust him for coke like Noriega? Does he have a convenient accident? Pretty high profile for that. Could a trial lead to investigations of the nature of covert relations? Will more CIA agents be tried in absentia? Could it lead to charges against former cabinet level position holders?

I'm sort of a little surprised that I've not heard anything out of the UN on Egypt.

One can hope this is an opportunity for some actual justice and the progress of humanity. Until these sorts of practices are ended worldwide, there is no hope for actual peace.

Oh, I think Mr. ElBaradei would make an excellent investigator.

In Solidarity with the humane of the world,
-Hoot


Edit for spelling and
P.S.: Send energy my way I had a second interview yesterday and really, really, seriously need the job.

[hootinholler]

1. Gratutious self-kick - I would like to hear your opinions on this. n/t

[gratuitous]

4. Ain't no kick like a gratuitous kick

Four out of five doctors agree that you might get better, but you never get well.

Anyway, the situation in Egypt is quite ticklish for the U.S. We are, however, past masters at the art of forgetting our own past, and we have the military and nuclear capability to make sure that no one else remembers too may inconvenient facts about us. No, the real ticklishness comes from the fact that we aren't controlling events. This caught the intelligence apparatus totally unaware, and the scramble is on to catch up or to try to run around to the front to make it look like we're leading things.

[hootinholler]

5. Made me smile.

It could be they were caught off guard, I think htey missed the boat to seem like we are leading it.

-Hoot

[Fumesucker]

2. Break a leg, Hoot..

I hope you get the job..

And yeah, I bet there's people in the black ops sections that are sweating bullets right now..

[hootinholler]

3. Thanks, Shoulda gone for a sexier headline. n/t

[Tsiyu]

6. The UN has spoken out

but can't get links here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=un+statement+on+mubarek&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wn

BBC Coverage


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[hootinholler]

7. Perhaps I worded that poorly

I simply meant that what the UN has said isn't really getting widespread coverage and that I hadn't heard about it. Thanks for the links.

-Hoot