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Sen. McCain: ‘We Cannot Afford a Tiananmen Square in Cairo’
- Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:19am by
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Comments (109)
Whostolemypig
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:15pmJohn would that be the right side of history according to the big money elite?
Report Post »BacktotheFounders
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:13pmWould all who are saying, “Let’s be neutral,” please take a look at a map showing the location of Egypt. Note particularly the Suez Canal and learn about its strategic location. Ask yourselves if you’d like for militant Islamists to gain control of it.
Report Post »ragnar
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:11pmsure glad the U.N. has assembled an going to vote on size of table or something,let”s put more tax dollars into U.N.troops an cut SSI after all they made Korea,Vietam and Chavzea ? a footnote in history,Hillary&Bill can always find another state to run in There’s still other states that kneed their help or pick into Van Jones Jar Of Destiny. I Guess this is My Wait a Global Moment
Report Post »Rob
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:11pmThis RINO and his bovine daughter need to shut the hell up about EVERYTHING.
Report Post »Via Dolorosa
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:10pmLuke 9:
60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but
go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
===========================
Egypt is 80% muslim – let them bury their own dead.
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:08pmI would imagine John that the average Egyptian does not give a rats ass what America can afford. When America finally realizes that these are sovereign nations and do not require our approval and we learn to mind our own business America and the world will be a much better place.
Report Post »Oraclevoiceofreason
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:01pmI am constantly amazed at those who have nothing to say continue to say nothing. I frankly think we should just leave Egypt to it’s own demise
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:56amJohn “Wayne” McCain – a day late and a dollar short, yet again.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:56amOne more thing. John McCain always wants to be on the right side of every situation and that’s why he continually straddles the fence.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:03pmDarn!! Now I know why he’s allus picking splinters out his, well, whatever.
Report Post »BRAVEHEART
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:54amAnywhere the muslims have influence and power there will be bloodshed. The middle East Region is heading towards terminal melt down. With no diliberate restraining influence from the U.S. the inclination for violence and aggression is amplified. The muslims will try to capitalize on every unstable situation that presents itself and spread their brand of sheria peace and love as far as possible.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:53amIf we get more involved, isn’t that American imperialism, according to the Left?
I got a kick to hear we cut off funds to Egypt for democratization. Why are we doing that? I don’t mind foreign aid, within reason, to feed hungry people and clothe them. Plus the Peace Corps (does that still exist?) to build schools, help dig wells, and teach responsible farming techniques. And some military aid to support a pro-US stance in places where we might need a temporary base for operations in our national interest. Anything else seems to be meddling, in my view. We also tend to do it in places that have no history or concept of our ideas about liberty, human dignity, and inalienable rights. Culturally, in many such places, the very people we‘re trying to ’help’ are hostile to our values.
George Washington was right. We should be very careful where we make treaties and agreements.
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:53amOur founding fathers wanted us to be neutral. Over the years we have meddled into foreign affairs and often created more problems. We have supported this thug in Egypt for years. We have gotten him to do our dirty work. This cycle has been repeated in country after country. We need to let Egypt work out its own problems. We need to focus on the radical communist within our own country and government who want to turn us into Mother-Country-loving-commies with no voice.
Report Post »sjohn70037
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:52amWho cares what this RINO piece-of-crap has to say about anything. Go away John McCain with your head hung in shame.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:51amNow, of course we are going to have to spend billions of dollars to make sure who we want to be in power is in power. I love our Republic but who says every country has to have one?
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:01pmWe are a Republic?
Report Post »Damn!! It’s been so long that I had forgoten to remember about that.
fishstx777
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:50amright now that crazy president from iran is dancing in the street, Wont be long before he sends terrorist armed with iranian weapons into this region .Al queda and iran will take over this region and in fact will take over egypt.this is another Iraq, no win situation. egyptian citizens will fight the terrorist for a while because this is not what they want for a government but there only so much you can do with rocks and matches and some hand guns. the hatred in this region has hit its apex .this is the time I wish we had reagan as president I would not want to be the person making the next decision .We can not let this area explode if we do Egypt will become Iran.And israel will become the next target then us.
Report Post »wilmo
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:49amJohn McCain has become the poster RINO for term limits.
Report Post »Tonio
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:43pmWilmo I couldn’t have said it better
Report Post »shock and awe
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:49amWhat does he mean by, “We can’t afford another Tiananmen Square?” Does he mean the grassroots freedom desire against any odds that is held in high esteem by freedom lovers everywhere? Or does he mean the deadly authoritarian response to it that the Chinese reacted with? I think Senator McCain is so enamored with the fact that this journalist appears to think favorably of him that he loses track of his own train of thought and whatever convictions he has take a back seat to media admiration.
Report Post »StrangernFiction
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:28pmI think you’ve pretty much summed up this trait….err maverick, with that last sentence.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 8:51pmI think you hit it right on the head with that comment.
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:42amJohn you lost me when you tried to legalize all the illegals….Go change your depends.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:42amShoot Mac. Tiananmen Square Was Good for Comunist China..hey!! just look at them now. Government Motors is now numero uno over there.Everything US buy is made there.Cept our TP for now. But soon we’ll only get permission to use one square/sheet. Shucks, Mz Sheryl Crow is already using one square. 1 1/2 when she gets a case O da diarrhea. gotta save the trees ya know.
Report Post »Mobarak may say to himself, darn, look what Tiananmen Square did for the communist.They pracitally own ameriKa now.Their DICK-tata even got a State dinna where a commie Chinko pianist disparge America rat in front of Ol’ Hawaiian born Baaaaarrrak .
Now Mac. If you can only CON-vince,nay, Insist to your ameriKan daughter it’s America that makes it possible for her to have 2 million $$ as her pocket change.
Mebbe you and her maw may want to cut-off her Beer “munny” until she realize it’s Capitalism that gives her the pocket change,and not Socialism.that she’s madly in love with.
Outside Looking In
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:36amMcCain?
Report Post »Isn’t he like, uh, gone?
What’s he doing still around – and why does CNN think his opinion matters?
MrButcher
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:33amAljazeera’a coverage has been spot-on and very informative.
I suggest all tune in and follow…
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:37amYou mean the network that support muslim terrorists ? no thanks .
Report Post »Angelacw
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:47amWhat exactly should we have done differently with Tiananmen Square? Invade China? I think Sen. McCain has lost all credibility, which is so sad considering all that he has given for his country. Sir if you’d like to be on the right side of history, have a chat with your idiot daughter. She’s just embarrassing.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:13pm@MrButcher
I think we are thinking on the same lines; something is coming down and very soon. When it arrives, it will be quick, and hopefully not bloody in nature. Indeed we need to watch and listen, and hope.
Report Post »BiteMePETA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:25amWho cares what McCain says about anything? He’s been in WA too long and is so weak minded that he actually lets his liberal wife and liberal daughter influence the way he thinks…
Where is a real man when you need him?
Report Post »CitizenVetUSA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:09pmMcCain’s opinion is no longer valued as his vision is skewed by radical liberals in his own home.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:55pmYet he was the GOP presidential nominee in 2008.
Maybe some people should go rewatch the 2008 debates and see who would have been the better candidate. There was only 1.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:23amControl you house first = control Meghan .
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:23amWhy can’t we just let them work things out on their own?
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:55am@ Iron……Got to disagree with you on this one. Look what happened in Iran
Report Post »when good’ol Jimmy shut the green back tap off. Would you like to have that one back?
EnlightenedinGA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:53pmI agree. I wish the US government would just stay out of EVERYONE’s business, foreigners and Americans.
Report Post »millefiore
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:29pmGas will go sky high. We have to keep the shipping route open for trade…OIL-OIL-OIL….
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:14amI agree. We do not understand Arab people. Everytime we try the experiment the results are the same. Why in the world would anyone think the result will be differet this time. Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives lost and we have learned nothing. 9% unemplyment and centuries of energy under our own land. Get the hell out and stay out. Its a rigged game and the young people in uniform are the pawns. Its criminal.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:23amMaybe John ought to send, like, Meagin, over there to negotiate peace. Like, afterall, she’s the art history major from Columbia who thinks it qualifies her, like, to put her spin on politicians. Like, maybe Mubarak will take her advice.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:35amCouldn’t have said it better myself. Thank You.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:38amTotally, like she could maybe highlight Mubaraks hair because the whole problem is like appearance ya know.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:39amMcCain is ex-Navy but appears to have as little grasp of the issue as ex-Navy Carter did when the Ayatollah Khomeini challenged the Shah
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:43amAs George W Bush always said,if given the choice,people will choose to live in a free society.History will show that the decisions made by President Bush were the first stepping stones toward democracy in the middle east.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:49amSeems to me we afforded to let one happen in Iran not to long ago.
Report Post »The BIG-O kept his mouth shut then also. He don’t want no stink’n democracy.
What the hell he’s trying to get rid of ours.
mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:52amJohn needs to go hang out with that dumb ass daughter of his
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:18pmI talked to John this morning…he said “I’m the type of republican who can reach across the ocean and compromise with brutal dictators…say, that would make some good ad copy for my 2012 campaign for president!” He then had his cookies & milk & laid down for nappy time.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:20pmOMG, like, you know, Meaghan could just like totally relate to the harsh and strict conditions that the people of like Egypt can totally like relate to. I mean, like totally, she knows that when she went like shopping to a ridiculously expensive store to like buy a really ragin’ pair of like totally awesome shoes and like her dad, or something, wouldn’t let her spend that much money on them. Like totally unfair! Meaghan could like take some shoes on a plane and like fly over to Egypt and give them to somebody, who like wanted some shoes and she could just kinda tell them like “Dude, I like totally relate to you. Want to see a revealling picture of my boobies?”. She should be like, totally nominated for an ambassordship or something for that region over there…..wherever it is…..
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:35pmGod bless you Grandma, you made my day!
Report Post »jeffdubya
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:57pmOMG, brilliant. Anything to get rid of that little prog bubblehead.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:11pm@Grandmaof5
Morning, hope the cats are well.
Sending John McCain over to the area would have little or no good effect; America is honestly not very welcome in the region lately, and we should just stay out of this one. Obama will do nothing of any value, and any peacefull changes or results he will claim all credits and victories for.
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:28pmJohn McCain….Well the right also has its morons. When are we going to have serious adults making decisions and leading this country rather than Political Lawyerly Hacks? Look at the mess all of the “professional career” politicians have made. There is a reckoning coming. I think sooner than later. Be prepared.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:42pmLet the people of Egypt take care of their own affairs the last thing we need to do is get involved with another countries problems! And we keep hearing about how we need to cut spending but want to spend billions more in foreign affairs around the world. How about we give some TLC to our own people and within our own borders for a few decades!
Report Post »EnlightenedinGA
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:49pmHey Grandma. I’m also the grandma of five. Just got the fifth one on Jan 13th. I like love your comment. RINO Juan McCain and the illustrious Meghan need to like ride into the Arizona sunset.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:50pmSNOW, things are good here today, thanks. Hope all is well. Had a thought as I was cleaning cat boxes (think the subconscience found a correlation), can anyone imagine if John McCain were president, what a nightmare it would be with little Megan out there running her “art history degree from Columbia” mouth. I shudder to think.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:54pmENLIGHTENEDINGA, congratulations, don’t you just love being a grandmother. Hugs, kisses, spoil them and send them home so you can recover. Life’s great!
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 2:06pmSPOT_OF_TEA
“As George W Bush always said,if given the choice,people will choose to live in a free society.”
I wish this were the case. Throughout history people have chosen autocracies and plutocracies, sometimes violent, oppressive regimes, knowing full well what they are choosing. History shows three important factors that we must understand: we don’t learn from history, freedom is not a universal value, and power is a universal value. These factors have been played out thousands of times over the last ten-thousand years.
Since our auspicious beginnings, Americans have always enjoyed National, Political, and Personal Liberty. We are pretty much where the citizens of the Roman Empire were when they made a choice to surrender their freedoms to the Caesar’s.
Lastly, the Middle East has always been the crucible of conflict and the graveyard of Empires.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 3:17pmbyehlik
Report Post »Two words: “Herman Cain”.
jburke4
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:11amhehe
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 4:16pmHey, John? Since you voted for the STIMULUS BILL, and NOBAMACARE, uh, why don’t you just SHUT UP!!!!!
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 5:52pmWhat can I say you said it all.
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