Prestige: American Hostages Taken Captive By Former Ally We Toppled
January 26th, 2012 at 9:17 pm by BrianThis is apparently a feature and not a bug of Smart Diplomacy.
Come on, feel the hopenchange. After years of Bush’s go it alone unilateralism and disrespect for The Little People, the international love has finally lifted us up where we belong. Oh, wait.
CAIRO — Egypt has banned the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and at least five other Americans from leaving the country, officials said Thursday, heightening tensions over an Egyptian investigation into groups that promote democracy and human rights.
The State Department’s highest human rights official, Michael Posner, said the move raised concerns about Egypt’s transition to democracy after Hosni Mubarak‘s ouster and could jeopardize badly needed American aid.
Other American organizations raided include Freedom House and the National Democratic Institute, which also monitored Egypt’s recent elections.
LaHood said his lawyer has been told that four of the group’s employees, three Americans and one European, are on the list.
A spokeswoman for Freedom House, Mary McGuire, said she was unaware of any change in the employees’ status.
Lisa Hughes, director of the Egypt office of the National Democratic Institute, said Egyptian authorities have said that six staffers are on the list, three Americans and three Serbs. All have been interrogated about the group’s activities.
Hughes, who is on the list, was planning fly home to the U.S. next month, she said. Her organization was also raided in December.
“I think we would be silly not to be concerned,” she said. “We were concerned the moment armed men showed up at our office door, and this has done nothing to calm those concerns.”
I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. This is all thanks to Obama. High fives, bro.
Americans should only fear armed American agents showing up at their door for downloading music not some bunch of falafel-eating, fundamentalist Allahphiles seeking to throttle the infant of Egyptian Freedom made possible by the gift of Little Oral Obama’s magical throat muscles.
I think I speak for the Muslim Brotherhood when I say “thank god we have Obama as President”. We’ll truly know that we’re sitting at the cool kids table again when our Transportation Secretary’s son is dropped down an Egyptian elevator shaft.










February 21st, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Since when do we have to put up with other countries taking Americans hostage? We still have the Marines don’t we? When hostages are involved, diplomacy should be off the table.