Posted on 02/11/2011 9:47:18 AM PST by Stayfree
This should be a wakeup call to our own Fedzilla (Congress and the rest of the federal government in Washington, D.C.) that the American people are also sick and tired of our own version of an oppressive government as evidenced by the American Tea Party movement.
Egypt is an ally. The protesters are radical Muslims.
Muslim Brotherhood = American Tea Party???
Now, let’s not get carried away and make the Egyptian protesters akin to the Tea Party.
A majority of Egyptians would welcome Sharia Law. Tea Partiers are more constitutionalists.
THE DIFFERENCES OUTWEIGHT ANY SMALL SIMILARITIES.
Mubarak was another in our history having the best dictators in our pocket that borrowed from China money can buy. We could have bought Saddam off too if he would have played his cards right and saved a trillion or so and thousands of our young servicemen.
Does anyone think Americans of 2011 would ever take time off from the blitz of the NFL and Hollywood entertainment propaganda to rise up to demand our freedoms and government back, as these Egyptians have? We Americans of 2011 would still be saluting the King of England, if not for the patriotic gutsy Americans of 1776.
I understand the overthrow idea, but the idea of public stonings in Manhattan are not appealing.
[Wake up all you people of the mideast, it is time for you to join the Egyptian people]
You are a nutcase. If you think there will be a brave new world after the Muslim Brotherhood takes over, you should move there.
What part of Muslims Want You Dead don’t you get?
One guy is not the government.
Are you serious? They just handed Egypt to the wolves! I have no doubt that there are honest people protesting in Egypt, but they have no basis for political power and no organizational structure. In other words there is a political vacuum. And do you know what steps into a political vacuum? The most organized and fanatical group...in this case it’s the MB.
The lofty ideals of democratic revolution are inspiring to be sure, but the problem here is that there is no history of democratic intellectual dissent or any hint of an organized democratic political structure behind this “revolution”. This may be a bunch of people who want democracy, but they are being covertly encouraged by extremists...the people may be honest but their handlers are not. Ask yourself this question...if this is so good then why is Iran encouraging it? Could it be that they know something that the Obama Administration doesn’t or chooses to ignore?
This will not end well.
The really tricky bit is what comes next.
This was no Tea party. I resent this. These were lefties who started this.
That does not exclude Mubarek from shame, but he may have been better than what they knowingly, or unknowingly are setting themselves up for.
"Hosni Mubarak resigns: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails 'a new Middle East' Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday claimed the uprising in Egypt and removal of Hosni Mubarak heralded a new Middle East without the "satanic" influence of the West and that will doom Israel."
“”This was no Tea party. I resent this. These were lefties who started this.””
Are you saying only lefties have the chutzpah to sacrifice and take down an oppressive government? I respectfully disagree.
Mubarak may have been better, but that’s for them to decide and for them to live with the results. I sure as hxll don’t want Mexico or England or Saudis telling us how to run our country.
Hosni Mubarak resigns: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails 'a new Middle East'
"In spite of all the (West's) complicated and satanic designs ... a new Middle East is emerging without the Zionist regime and US interference..."
Do you really think the people of Egypt are going to be better off? Do you think we will be better off? I don’t know how you get to there from here. As for throwing off oppressive government in the US, there is a system for it called elections. Do you think a government resulting from an overthrow would be better than one resulting from an election?
Time will tell. You wait. An Islamic sharia government may be in the offing.
It worked out so well for the Iranians, didn’t it? /sarc
I agree. I think it is a good thing that the people are taking back their country (Egypt). If we can’t support that even if it means a more complex dynamic there then we aren’t fit for liberty. There is a lot of talk about the “Muslim brotherhood” but a lot of it is hysteria. The Muslim brotherhood if they had the influence or numbers to take control would have years ago. They are going to represent a problem but it isn’t like they have been in suspended animation under the Mubarak regime. It is not like Egypt was a secular Islamist state. Mubarak was just a thug that decided it was better to be a soft rich thug than an over the top tyrant.
It disgusts me that people who claim to be patriots would not support a free Egypt. So what if there is chaos in the Middle East. This will embolden movements in Iran as well as Yemen & Saudi Arabia and that is a good thing for us.
It will keep energy, economy, foreign policy, & out of control govt debt at the forefront going into 2012. That is a good thing for us. I know there are plenty even here that would like to see a return to the status quo, where the tea party fervor dies down, where we go back to electing establishment Republicans and where we just go on our merry way providing international welfare to oil rich nations at tax payers expense.
Let’s embrace change. It will be good for us in the long run. More domestic oil production, smaller govt, stronger leaner more domestic oriented military. What we have been doing has been just a slow bleed. We need to take away the book of blank checks on issues like education, energy, health care, and yes national security. We need to start asking what are we getting in return for our money and whether we can produce the same results in more direct less expensive ways. It seems that since 9-11 the intelligence bureaucracy has only grown and is even less agile. We have had several situations where it was only by luck that disasters were avoided all the while little old ladies with hip replacements face embarrassing indignity because we know how very dangerous little old ladies are. We have been ‘had’ and we conservatives need to stop having one track minds on this stuff. I was the same after 9-11. I still support deposing Saddam and the Taliban however I think the scope of both of those involvements got way out of hand.
You post a vanity post and then run away from the debate.
You are living in la la land if u think democracy is coming to Egypt. There are many reasons I could mention why, but I will stick with the main one. Their religion depresses freedom, not encourages it.
Don't be so freaking naive.
This was a coup d’etat, engineered by Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Nothing to celebrate. It’s a day of shame for our country.
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