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applegrove

(118,600 posts)
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 12:26 AM Jun 2013

On Real Time with Bill Maher tonight Niall Ferguson made a statement

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that since Obama's speech in Cairo Obama has no foreign policy to deal with the Middle East. He gave the specific example of the Green Revolution in Iran, four years ago, where there was no Obama policy. Well Obama did have a policy then. It was to not visibly support the demonstrators in Iran so that the Iranian Regime could not claim it was the Great Satan that was behind the democracy movement there. Did it work? No. The Iranian Regime attacked peaceful, independent demonstrators and the Green Revolution came to an end. Niall Ferguson is a historian. He would know this. Obama did have successful policy in both the Egyptian Spring and the Libyan independence. If you see this "Obama has no Middle East strategy" meme in the weeks to come...shoot it down. LIARS.

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On Real Time with Bill Maher tonight Niall Ferguson made a statement (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2013 OP
Niall Ferguson is the biggest fuckin Liar BootinUp Jun 2013 #1
...and he interrupts people mid-sentence to Roselma Jun 2013 #2
Niall.. as far as "historian" .. I can only imagine what his fucking rewriting of history is about. Cha Jun 2013 #3

Roselma

(540 posts)
2. ...and he interrupts people mid-sentence to
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 01:42 AM
Jun 2013

talk over them. Plus, he married liar, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Together they lie to suit whatever the American Enterprise Institute decides is the correct policy.

Cha

(297,120 posts)
3. Niall.. as far as "historian" .. I can only imagine what his fucking rewriting of history is about.
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 04:42 AM
Jun 2013
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