Note to any stray nobama voter who might read this thread: Please place your head in a vice. Turn slowly until you hear a cracking sound. Thank you.
He might even get away with it if its ONLY Egypt.
If it takes down Jordan, Yemen, Albania and Saudi Arabia it might be a bit iffy to say its a good thing.
Especially when these islamic radicals take power and show their true colors. Once the massive oppression and bloodletting begins in these countries maybe the people will get a clue.
It is time to end the charade that we can deal diplomatically with these countries as if they were civilized western nations.
Oh, I can hear it now: “Bush’s fault”.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
A bad outcome should be the probable result for forced changes in Middle East governments. Islamic state leaders have traditionally followed malevolent roads to power energized with lethal political intrigues and religious heresies.
About 1100 AD Hassan bin Sabah, who inherited the Assassins Guild, enlightened Islamist societies to terrorism as foundational statecraft for political prosperity. Philosophical and religious lawyers retained their lives, and obtained support for dictators by backwards engineering the Koran into useful totalitarian heterodoxies. Concurrently, foundational thought including Jews, Christians and Muslims as People of the Book became hazardous. Concurrently, Saladins Sufism stressing individual relationship with God, and exalting individuals in society became marginalized. Concurrently, extraordinary Arab achievements in mathematics, philosophy, science, and medicine submerged within authoritarian and feral societies. Omar Khayyam, Ibn al-Haytham, and Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Sina had no successors for uncompromising, independent thought.
The bloody electioneering among aspiring Islamic totalitarians causes them to grasp and retain their power by crafting superior alliances of human cunning and animal brutality. For them an internal/external continuum exists where politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. Why abandon strategies proven throughout a millennium?
Into such an environment Obama brings his shiny new Nobel Peace Prize, with all the comforting assurances he received from the awarding committee. However, those he must deal with share the perception of Greg Lewis in American Thinker who painted the picture of Obama as displaying classic beta male behavior. The alpha male dog approaches directly, while the beta male displays acquiescent gestures signaling uncompromising submission. Lewis saw submissiveness in offering conciliatory gestures to Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in sending John Kerry to meet Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, in bowing to King Abdullah, in airy discussions with Hugo Chavez and David Ortega, and in generally ridiculing U.S. past actions whenever he appears on an international stage.
Of course these actions were constructive within the worldview continually vetted by the liberal constituencies Obama cherishes. Here the best approaches to diplomacy reside within modern game theory for which John Nash and others received Nobel prizes. Supposedly, if we simply talk to these people, they will realize the brilliance of Western conflict resolution. Such childishness does not recognize the Colonial Period has ended, and Oriental leaders seldom face effective armed coercion.
BO/BS won’t see it as losing Egypt if he considers it good for America. He will consider it a victory.
The puppet masters are orchestrating some startling things . . . as we knew they would and do all the time—just some with more overt evidence at times than others.
Will see how it plays out.
Thankfully, they are silly putty in God’s hands.
Obama is Jimmy Carter on Steroids!