Top 5 under-reported / censored stories of 2012

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Here's my measure for how a political story is covered: I ask myself, "How would it be covered if George W. Bush were president?" If it's the same, then I'm cool with it. If it's different than I call it out.

Benghazi and the complete foreign policy failure of the Arab Spring are the two biggest underreported stories of 2012.
 
Why has Arab Spring failed?

And for whom? :)
 
Well, if it's reported on commondreams.org, it's a non-story so they'll claim it's under-reported.
 
I would have thought the cover up of Lybia and how it is still being pushed away from the whitehouse..and where are all of the pundits looking to see if hillery really is ill..of has she been taken hostage..or is she ducking answering questions or has she been abducted by aliens, oh wait, she is a dem..
 
Why has Arab Spring failed?

And for whom? :)

It's been a massive foreign policy failure for us and a domestic failure for those who wanted more human rights in those countries. Here's something you learn in any undergraduate international relations class: You don't allow a revolution to start without knowing what will replace it. We abandoned Mubarak and allowed Qaddafi to fall knowing the Muslim Brotherhood would take over Egypt (since they were the best organized political party) and knowing that there was a strong Al Qaeda presence in Libya.

Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote about this concept in "Dictatorships and Double Standards". The smart thing to do would have been to support Mubarak and the Egyptian military in the short term while working with them and other pro-democracy (i.e., anti-Islamist) leaders to transition to a less authoritarian Egypt that remained pro-Western. As for Qaddafi, we had neutered him and he was essentially acting as our ally in the War on Terror. Why get rid of him for parties we neither know or control?

The Arab Spring will result in a less pro-Western, less free, more anti-Israeli, more unstable and more Islamist North Africa and Middle East. In other words, we have given a massive victory to the forces we have been fighting since 2001.
 
Maybe it's none of our business to allow or disallow or otherwise involve ourselves in other peoples' revolutions.

OK, not maybe. Definitely.
 
I think I would add to the under-reported list the fact that the US taxpayers will gift the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt a quarter billion dollars worth of Abrams tanks and F16 fighters.

Yay, let's arm our enemies!

Go Blazers
 

Better list.
 
Maybe it's none of our business to allow or disallow or otherwise involve ourselves in other peoples' revolutions.

OK, not maybe. Definitely.

Yep, you and I disagree about foreign policy, just like immigration policy.

It's not like if we withdraw that no one won't step in, and their motives won't be as noble as ours (not that ours are pure, but they're a damn sight better than China's, Russia's or Iran's). Nature abhors a vacuum. The same issue occurs in international relations.
 

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