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Posted on 01/29/2011 5:26:54 PM PST by Hojczyk
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.
Trust me, the Obama spin machine is already figuring out how to “Blame Bush”.
Hmmm... I really do not know if we can keep any “boy friend” in Egypt or the Middle East for that matter. So because of special relations with a few we should throw all our weight behind yet another trap?
Can you say foreign aid failure and government throwing more and more money at a black hole?
...and/or Palin.
Presupposing Iranian domination is a stretch. They are Persian and Shiite. Egypt is Arab and Sunni.
Obozo is clueless. Hillary is clueless. Egypt will most likely fall to the MB, and by extension, Iran’s Ahmedinejad. They know he is a pushover, even easier than Carter. The loss of Egypt as an ally, even a poor one, will mean the effective end of the Zero’s presidency....
I loathe this toe-sucking turncoat, but what he writes here makes a lot of sense.
Alas, I expect Obama to be even more clueless about this than Carter was about Iran.
Not lost, but gave it away to his brethren.
Egypt was not lost. The Muslims took back what the Brits thought they conquered in the 19th century.
Only now, the next step will be the conquest of the West.
They already have......
Bush is a damned wimp.
The world’s and the US existence is to important to keep one’s mouth shut at this time.
Life trumps tradition.
Was it Richard M Nixon who said “it isn’t an issue of Diem or someone better, it is Diem or someone worse” back in the 60’s?
It was interesting to watch Gibbsey at the presser yesterday.
Instead of his usual snarky self, he looked pale and nervous as hell.
The Baraqqis are in deep squattin’ doo doo on this one.
Nah, Obuttocks is too stupid to be a covert operative for the Muslim Brotherhood: he’s nothing more than a two-bit, second-rate Chicago thug, more at home shaking down local businesses for “protection” money - aka minority set-asides and the like - than actually governing, or playing the role of a sleeper or mole against the U.S.
Who lost Egypt?....MuBarack Hussein Obama. By design.
He is not stupid - he is a muslim and this is by design. His job is also to destroy America. The media and TV keep spinning 24x7 pro Obama propaganda as drooling TV viewers sit there in their pampers.
It’s Caroline, not Carolyn Glick.
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