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The U.S. State Department under the leadership of Secretary Hillary Clinton continued a program to embolden foreign, revolutionary, social media activists to agitate for regime change in various parts of the world. The program arguably had major, detrimental consequences for the trajectory of the Middle East.
Recent leaks show a memo that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin sent to her boss stating, “I’m giving you credit for inspiring the ‘peaceful’ protests,” with regard to Egypt, with quotation marks around the word “peaceful.”
The United States government is believed to have utilized a program called the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit, co-founded by a close Hillary Clinton adviser, to provide networking opportunities for an activist plotting to overthrow Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak several years before the “Arab Spring” protests that led to widespread regime change in the Middle East.
From: Huma Abedin To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2012-09-12 22:21 Subject: SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 09/14/I
UNCLASSIFIED STATE DEPT. - PRODUCED TO HOUSE SELECT BENGHAZI COMM. U.S. Department of State SUBJECT TO AGREEMENT ON SENSITIVE INFORMATION & REDACTIONS. NO FOIA WAIVER. Case No. F-2015-04841 Doc No. C05739606 Date: 05/13/2015 RELEASE IN FULL From: Abeclin, Huma Sent: Friday, September 14, 20129:21AM To: Subject: Fw:SITUATIONREPORTNo109/14/1(SBU)
I'm giving you credit for inspiring the "peaceful" protests.
Recent leaks show a memo that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin sent to her boss stating, “I’m giving you credit for inspiring the ‘peaceful’ protests,” with regard to Egypt, with quotation marks around the word “peaceful.”
Hillary Clinton Sponsored Secretive Arab Spring Program that Destabilized Middle East
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This article is only surprising to the naive and those who've never played "Civilizations." lol!
There can be elements of supporting covert operations, including Psyop and other disruptors, in the name of a country's goals. One thinks of the CIA as being the only one's doing this, but from time immemorial, ambassadors and embassies have hosted espionage efforts, as well as other campaigns.
Would you prefer US interests always seek change by means of guns and bombs? Where negotiation is impossible, or fails, or is deemed otherwise inappropriate, do you think we throw up our hands and say, "oh well, I guess that's that!"
A better idea than to be shocked about it, or seek to shock others, is to ask "why?" and "who ordered this?" "How did this further US interests?" And also to know that the answers to this question may be very classified, so that we cannot answer them.
It is the way of the world. There are webs within webs and at least Clinton is aware of them.
originally posted by: stosh64
a reply to: xuenchen
Humas email to Clinton.
From: Huma Abedin To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2012-09-12 22:21 Subject: SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 09/14/I
UNCLASSIFIED STATE DEPT. - PRODUCED TO HOUSE SELECT BENGHAZI COMM. U.S. Department of State SUBJECT TO AGREEMENT ON SENSITIVE INFORMATION & REDACTIONS. NO FOIA WAIVER. Case No. F-2015-04841 Doc No. C05739606 Date: 05/13/2015 RELEASE IN FULL From: Abeclin, Huma Sent: Friday, September 14, 20129:21AM To: Subject: Fw:SITUATIONREPORTNo109/14/1(SBU)
I'm giving you credit for inspiring the "peaceful" protests.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
Breitbart. Right...
The destructive legacy of Arab liberals
In fact, and as the following will show, it has been a new brand of Arab liberals — secularists and Islamists (though the former have been far more dangerous) — who have been and continue to be a most dangerous and destructive political force in the post-1967 Arab world.
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It is with this as background that Arab liberals — secularists and Islamists among them — would emerge during the so-called Arab “Spring” of 2011 as leaders of the revolts of Egypt and Tunisia (and Syria and Libya, Bahrain and Yemen). In the telling case of Tunisia, the liberal Islamists’ (mainly the al-Nahda party) and secularists’ infighting brought about a modus operandi that led to the partial restoration of the ancien régime.
In Egypt, the secularist liberals were transformed into outright fascists overnight and allied themselves openly with the Mubarakist forces, both in government, the military and the business sector against the liberal and neoliberal Muslim Brotherhood, which was only able, during its brief stint in power, to ally itself with the Mubarakist army, which ended up toppling its government.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
December 2010: The Arab Spring
"...was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world... Major insurgencies in Syria, Libya and Yemen resulted along with civil uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain, large street demonstrations in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Oman, and minor protests even in Saudi Arabia. ...The Arab Spring is widely believed to have been instigated by dissatisfaction with the rule of local governments, particularly by youth and unions, though some have speculated that wide gaps in income levels may have had a hand as well. Other analysts pointed to the fourth stage "Toppling the Regimes" of the Al Qaeda strategy for world domination, described in Fouad Hussein's book published in 2005. Numerous factors led to the protests, including issues such as dictatorship or absolute monarchy, human rights violations, political corruption (demonstrated by Wikileaks diplomatic cables), economic decline, unemployment, extreme poverty, and a number of demographic structural factors, such as a large percentage of educated but dissatisfied youth within the entire population." en.wikipedia.org... en.wikipedia.org...
2011: Clinton State Department approved U.S. weapons shipment to Libya despite ban.
"The State Department initially approved a weapons shipment from a California company to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 even though a United Nations arms ban was in place, according to memos recovered from the burned-out compound in Benghazi." www.washingtontimes.com... "Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Debacle: Arming Jihadists in Libya . . . and Syria" www.nationalreview.com...
February 15, 2011: Libyan Civil War begins
...CONTINUED...
Peter Ford the ex High Commissioner in Syria was on BBC this morning saying how disastrous our foreign policy has been and how we should pull back from destroying Syria.
The man in question is Jared Cohen, and he is a CFR member and later became a Google employee !!
True, most of us know that what they tell us is BS and that the real agenda is always hidden.
Does that make it something we shouldn't fight against?
This is a good thing? Especially in other sovereign, Democratic countries?
How about we stay out of others countries business?