ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: World Tribune
24February2011 4:00pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In a region noted for miracles — Israel’s prosperous if beleaguered survival, despite attempts to mobilize 360-million Arab enemies, is a recent example — prayer could 
be a way to make U.S. policy. Although she now contributes only by inheritance, former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice voiced that possibility, woefully, recently: “…We have only one choice: to trust that in the long arc of history those shared beliefs will matter more than the immediate disruptions that lie ahead and that, ultimately, our interests and ideals will be well served.“
To quote John Maynard Milord Keynes, in the long run we will all be dead.
Reality is the Obama Administration cannot continue to abdicate America’s responsibility, leaving a worldwide vacuum to be filled by every would-be amateur Metternich. Obviously, policy is made with many unanswered questions. But leadership requires sorting possibilities, and decision-making, usually accepting the best of poor alternatives.
In all the uncertainties facing Egypt’s future, and indeed, the whole Arab world, by encroaching poverty poised against rising expectations, none is so mysterious as current U.S. policy. (read full report)
