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Obama Circumvents Senate to Appoint Bryza as Ambassador to Azerbaijan
White House Uses Recess Appointment to Send Envoy to Baku Without Senate Confirmation
WASHINGTON—Despite Senate opposition, driven by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), President Barack Obama today announced that he is making a recess appointment of Matt Bryza as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The president’s action, in the final days of the 111th Congress, comes despite serious concerns
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Hye, Obama evidently is limited in the quantity and the quality of men/women to select as his choices for representing the USA nation as Ambassadors throughout the world. Bryza, whose bumbling and mis-spoken responses, obviously, indicate and qualify him to be ineligible to represent the USA ANYWHERE!
Obama, if you must place a Bryza, place him where he is least harmful to the image of the USA before the civilized world… Bryza,,, who is mentally too “small” to be representing the our nation – before the world. Is the USA State Department under staffed, that such as a Bryza is still in your consideratons for placement as an Ambassador representing the USA – ANYWHERE!! Manooshag
Actually we need to look at the bright side of this appointment. I rather have Bryza in this position than someone else. Bryza and his biases are well known. This reputation will make him totally useless and incapable of saying anything or doing anything with credibility. All of his words and actions are going to be suspect by all even the State Department. Wouldn’t you rather have someone who is discredited in that position rather than a credible diplomat?
Fredrick, I hope you are right. I agree that, at least, he is a known evil. He may also try harder to be objective knowing that his actions are going to be under scrutiny.
Manooshag,
You accuse Ambassador Bryza of being “mentally small”. Really! Have you read your own post, with all of the grammatical errors! I ask you, can you even come close to matching his vast accomplishments? Can ANY of you? I thought not!
Fredrick, I like your reasoning.
Accomplishments, Steve. Really?! Being thoroughly discredited for cozying up to a dictatorial regime precariously perched on dwindling oil revenues? If this constitutes “vast,” then former Ambassador Evans’ accomplishments were gargantuan.
It matters very little as who is the ambassador to Baku. The fact of the matter is that we have re-gained the Karabagh and it will not be returned to Azeri control, regardless of who is in charge. Levon Ter-Petrosyan tried to find a way to return it to Azerbaijan, he was pushed out properly. Kocharyan didn’t do it. Sargsyan cannot and will not do it.
Bryza is appointed to facilitate larger and perhaps more lucrative oil / gas deals with Aliyev. The more corrupt the Azeri government, the less its troops will be motivated to fight, as observed during 1992-1994.
Vacheh,
I have to agree with you. I think way too much resources were devoted to the issue of this guy, Bryza, becoming the ambassador.
Steve..
Really??? You are using spelling errors as grounds to discredit our sister? Really? is that all you can do?
At least Manooshag has a brain, do you? Obviously not because if one knows this monster in desguise will not talk about his accomplishments.. maybe accomplishments for stupid errors yes…but as a humanitarian accomplishments, he is worst than the devil.. so please spare me with your high and mighty “i know how to spell and Bryza too” BS and get with the program here..such arrogance..
Gayane
Frederick.. you may have a point.. but we shall live and see.. i just hope this idiot Bryza makes so many mistakes that not only he will look like an idiot but he will make Obama look like an idiot for nominating him in the first place…
But these poiticians are foxes, they know how to cover their sticky sh****$***@*@#T…so we will see how it goes.. but i hope you are right.
Gayane
Bryza seems like the person who follows his wife’s orders very closely.. as I was watching his interview with Boxer and Menendez, he looked sooo sheepish but his wife who was seating behind him looked like she would jump and cut someone’s throat… i am not surprised though…
it is sad that Obama is putting himself in the ranks of “govt officials without a brain” but what would you expect from someone who in my opinion kisses the muslim countries you know what soooo much that his lips will start getting ugly blisters….
Alex, thanks, abrees. Manooshag
HYe Gayane, thank you, abrees. Manooshag
Hye, an Obama, via his persistent choice of an inept and incapable representative of the USA State Department to return as the Ambassador Bryza to the Azeris merely displays his own ineptness… As the leader of the greatest republic the world has known has again shown that the issue of Genocides shall continue on our planet earth – his stance allows Genocides to continue.
Obama today, again, concurs that the politics of the issue of Genocides is more to be sought during his adminisntration than to seek the MORALITY in his pursuit of ending the cycle of Genocides, – the inhumanity of humans to humans – slaughters, tortures, rapes, violations, lands stolen and worse… all these continue in Obama’s term of office – even though, lying, he said he would be the president of the USA who would address/recognize the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation. Too, if he had the courage to accomplish this – morally – he should have been recognized more as the USA leader who would recognize the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation. He, the leader whose efforts would then too, be recognized for seeking to end the cycle of Genocides, of innocents, on the planet earth – forever!
For then, President Obama of the USA, would be entered in our world history books as the stalwart American leader who stood up and addressed the Turkish leaderships for denying their centuries of abuse of the Armenians – thus ending the cycles of Genocides. Too, persistent efforts of the Armenians – these nearly 100 years – historically would be recognized as well – for Armenian persistence in having the Ottoman Turks and their subsequent Turk leaderships brought to justice for their crimes against humanity, for their reparations due and owing to Armenians. Then, and only when the gullty are brought to face justice will any despots realize that the cycle of Genocides against humanity, against innocents shall never again appear anywhere, ever again, on the planet earth. IMAGINE! the cycle of Genocides ended forever! Manooshag