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 are hopelessly naive if you think that Egypt will become a free and democratic state. This is just the beginning of a total Islamo-Marxist Middle East that will soon turn its attention to Europe. And this time there will be no Charles Martel to come to the rescue.