Merely Tweeted, “It’s 3am In Cairo…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and genuine shock at the bumbling incoherence of President Obama’s Egypt response, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream:

If Obama wanted to ensure that no Middle East ally would ever trust us again, how would he have handled the Egypt crisis differently?

OK but seriously, could the WH have fucked up its Egypt response any more? Are there any adults in that building? http://is.gd/wBJfBR

Out of fairness shouldn’t Obama have invited Mubarak to a couple of BBQ’s and a summit before trashing him, ala Iran?

The next President will have a lot of work to do – “America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend” http://is.gd/2hI8G1

Smart power! “Other countries are mad as hell, and they’re mad as hell at us” http://is.gd/v7lzRJ

Ma’ariv: “Mubarak would be pleased if he could only receive the same treatment from Obama reserved for Ahmadinejad”

“Deals”… “copes”… “struggles”… etc |T @joshrogin: Obama administration deals with conflicting statements on Egypt http://bit.ly/ibpzyL

Dems are really rolling “Obama played an excellent hand”? Don’t you have to know what your cards are to play a good hand?

For a guy who emphasized a modest foreign policy in the Arab world, Obama sure does throw down a lot of “musts.”

Smart power | RT @MEMRIReports: Egypt FM Abu Al-Gheit Slams U.S. Administration for Interfering in Egypt’s Affairs http://ow.ly/1bgW3P

“The Obama administration has courted Egyptian Islamists from the start” http://is.gd/VZEq8C

Competence AND smart power | RT @joshrogin: Time for another Obama “envoy” to Egypt? http://bit.ly/ho6amu

I have to admit I’m surprised. I thought Turkey would be the first country that Obama would lose to radical Islam.

Having rejected Bush’s freedom agenda – and treating that as the height of sophistication – Obama wasn’t ready for Arabs to disagree

It’s just after 3am in Cairo #metaphor