President Obama and the Cell-Phone Wars (by Chet Nagle)

Tomorrow, the President will give a foreign policy speech urging MidEast rulers to be tolerant of cell-phone activists. But will he have a coherent foreign policy for the region? Click here to comment. Do you have an immediate Media Request? If so, please contact our Director of Operations at: Nancy@FamilySecurityMatters.org Chet Nagle is a Naval Academy graduate, a Georgetown Law School graduate, and Cold War carrier pilot who flew in the Cuban Missile Crisis. After a stint as a Navy research project officer, he joined International Security Affairs as a Pentagon civilian involved in defense and intelligence work. Afterwards, he lived abroad for 12 years working with Aeromaritime, Inc. and as an agent for the CIA, spending time in Iran, Oman, and many other countries. Along the way, he was founding publisher of a geo-political magazine, The Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, read in over 20 countries. At the end of his work in the Middle East, he was awarded the Order of Oman for his role in Oman's victory in a guerilla war fomented by communist Yemen. Nagle's first book is a fact-based novel about Iran's nuclear weapons program, IRAN COVENANT, available on Amazon. His second novel, THE WOOLSORTER'S PLAGUE, will be published in 2010 and describes an attack on Washington by terrorists using a biological weapon. He and his wife Dorothy live in Virginia. President Obama and the Cell-Phone Wars by Chet Nagle Trying to hang on to a bump in his approval ratings, President Obama will give a foreign policy victory speech on Thursday. His Press Secretary, Jay Carney, says the speech will urge Middle East leaders to be kind to cell-phone users who organize riots. He did not say the president might ask the rioters to explain exactly what they want from their social network civil wars, but he did promise us the speech will be "sweeping." So, after platitudes and media buzzwords like "Arab Spring," and "Arab Awakening," and "pro-democracy," will the president surprise the world with a coherent foreign policy for the region? Will he deliver a clear case-by-case basis for an American posture toward events in each country? In a word, no... CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE CLICK HERE TO COMMENT Click here to sign up for FSM's e-mail updates!