Posted on 01/30/2011 7:38:32 PM PST by MindBender26
In the 1950s, the accusation “who lost China” resonated throughout American politics and led to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1952. Unless President Obama reverses field and strongly opposes letting the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit with the modern equivalent of the 1952 question: Who Lost Egypt?
The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall. The Obama Administration, in failing to throw its weight against an Islamic takeover, is guilty of the same mistake that led President Carter to fail to support the Shah, opening the door for the Ayatollah Khomeini to take over Iran.
The United States has enormous leverage in Egypt – far more than it had in Iran. We provide Egypt with upwards of $2 billion a year in foreign aid under the provisos of the Camp David Accords orchestrated by Carter. The Egyptian military, in particular, receives $1.3 billion of this money. The United States, as the pay master, needs to send a signal to the military that it will be supportive of its efforts to keep Egypt out of the hands of the Islamic fundamentalists. Instead, Obama has put our military aid to Egypt “under review” to pressure Mubarak to mute his response to the demonstrators and has given top priority to “preventing the loss of human life.”
President Obama should say that Egypt has always been a friend of the United States. He should point out that it was the first Arab country to make peace with Israel. He should recall that President Sadat, who signed the peace accords, paid for doing so with his life and that President Mubarak has carried on in his footsteps. He should condemn the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood extremists to take over the country and indicate that America stands by her longtime ally. He should address the need for reform and urge Mubarak to enact needed changes. But his emphasis should be on standing with our ally.
The return of Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has to Egypt as the presumptive heir to Mubarak tells us where this revolution is headed. Carolyn Glick, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, explains how dangerous ElBaradei is. “As IAEA head,” she writes, “Elbaradei shielded Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the Security Council. He [has] continued to lobby against significant UN Security Council sanctions or other actions against Iran…Last week, he dismissed the threat of a nuclear armed Iran [saying] ‘there is a lot of hype in this debate’.”
As for the Muslim Brotherhood, Glick notes that “it forms the largest and best organized opposition to the Mubarak regime and [is] the progenitor of Hamas and al Qaidi. It seeks Egypt’s transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the forefront of the global jihad.”
Now is the time for Republicans and conservatives to start asking the question: Who is losing Egypt? We need to debunk the starry eyed idealistic yearning for reform and the fantasy that a liberal democracy will come from these demonstrations. It won’t. Iranian domination will.
Egypt, with 80 million people, is the largest country in the Middle East or North Africa. Combined with Iran’s 75 million (the second largest) they have 155 million people. By contrast the entire rest of the region — Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, UAE, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar combined– have only 200 million.
We must not let the two most populous and powerful nations in the region fall under the sway of Muslim extremism, the one through the weakness of Jimmy Carter and the other through the weakness of Barack Obama.
Right, when it was in their interest and we paid them enough.
Welcome to the wide wide world of reality.
PS, anyone want them helping the Islamic Jihadists instead?
if you’re a ‘progressive’ and your goal is to bring America to her knees, you’re off to a pretty good start.
oil prices rising in winter makes alot of folks desperate.
PPS: We were supplying Egyptian-made AK-47s to anti-Soviet Afghans for $23 per rifle.
Not a bad deal.
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They'll be coming across our southern border within a month.
Egypt is a Muslim Country and inevitably will be lead by Islamic Jihadists. To think otherwise is naive. There are no "moderate" Muslim countries only some that temporarily appear so because of the strength of their dictators whose power and wealth depend on other countries. These will all eventually fail and the zealots will gain control. Anyone who does not believe it is the Muslims, all of the Muslims, against everyone else, is not facing up to reality.
LOL! I have what you are smoking!
ElBaradei is an opportunist and has always been a skunk. Now
watch him get the catbird seat.
“I am interested in where his puppet masters, like Soros, stand”
Mohammed El Baradei is a trustee of the “International Crisis Group” an “independent” non-profit group run by bankers to incite revolutions and profit from them. His fellow trustee is none other than the ubiquitous Rothschild front man, George Soros.
Think that’s all we need to know about what is going on in the ME. Soros is making his play to destroy America. Think about it. The gulf provided us with a good chunk of our oil. Obama sits on his hands for 56 days and when it is all said and done, Salazar throws a moratorium on drilling in the gulf.
A week later all the rigs headed off to South America to drill for a company where Soros has a major interest.
” JERUSALEM – Weatherman terrorists Williams Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn – close associates for years of President Obama – were involved in provoking chaos on the streets of Egypt this week in an attempt to enter the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to join in solidarity with the territory’s population and leadership.
The protests were led in large part by Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, a far-left activist organization formed in 2002 to protest America’s war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with leaders of the Taliban. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama’s presidential campaign.”
So what does this have to do with Soros?
” Among the individuals who were part of the controversial JournoList e-mail group were activists who served on an editorial board alongside Weather Underground terror group founders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, WND has learned.
Also, it has emerged that other members of JournoList were activists from a far-left think tank with close ties to a Marxist-founded, George-Soros-funded group that petitions for more government control of the Internet.”
This is the biggest move by the left to take down America. And after seeing the signs of the protestors at the UN today; The group at the forefront of the recent anti-war rallies, International A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is in reality a front organization designed to further the radical agenda of several extremist movements from the political Left. Despite the media’s assertions to the contrary, present incarnation of the peace movement, led by ANSWER, is anything but representative of mainstream America.
So ANSWER is involved, Soros is involved, Ayers is involved, El Baradei is involved.
Sorry, there is a 600 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the Congresional gallery. Tomorrow whoever the leader of the house intel committee is, better call someone up to Washington to explain why this happened.
Not to mention that Soros paid for the defense of Blind Sheikh Abdurahman’s “secret dove” pal Lynne Stewart, who facilitated communications between the sheikh and his minions in Egypt, some of who were involved in the assassination of anti-Taliban Afghan NA leader Massod on Sept 9, 2001.
I fear that you might be right. Any other muslim country, say Yemen, I am sure you are right. Egypt though is a special case. I pray that we see post-islamicism at long last. Then end to autocratic dictator, bringing participatory freedom. In Egypt it is possible with credible military army guiding parties to a civil discourse and government creation, and a basic parliamentary infrastructure in place. I lived there 3 years and think this is a viable outcome.
pardon my keyboard- Massoud,not Massod.
America is not and has not been on a war time footing since 9/11, while our enemies have and continue to relentlessly and ruthlessly pursue their goal of the destruction of America and the west.
This is a fight to the death and most Americans irregardless of their political persuasion simply refuse to come to grips with that lethal fact.
We haven"t even faced up to who are enemy is. We are fighting, and dying, on the side of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. The enemy has actually gotten us to fight on their side.
We must wake up.
are = our
We are fighting in aghanistan to ensure the continuation of man-boy love by tha pashtuns.
Thank God the US military will now be able to participate in these kind of relations.
We are so screwed.
Maybe the Westboro’s are right?
Hillary sure flip-flopped from one day to the next.
Golfing
Partying
Shopping
Bribing Michelle to shut up
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