Posted on 02/01/2012 10:12:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
All hail the wondrous Arab Spring!
It is one year ago today that the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square began, ending in the fall of the Mubarak regime. It was fitting that President Obama mentioned it at the State of the Union, since he had a major role in that "wave of change," calling for Mubarak's ouster and signaling to the Egyptian military who now control the country which way to turn. It's well worth examining how things are going.
The parliamentary elections have been held, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the hardcore Salafist al-Nour Party won -- surprise! -- over 75% of the seats. The Facebook and Twitter liberals in places like Cairo and Alexandria -- the people whom everyone in the West was so in love with -- proved to be a negligible political force, and Egypt is likely headed towards an Islamic Republic as soon as the proper arrangements are made with the Army.
The Army originally had ideas of a government that had little civilian control over the military or its budget, à la the old Turkish model. In response, Islamists played their cards quite cleverly, gradually fomenting discontent against military rule and instigating violent riots after Friday prayers over the military's refusal to turn over power to a civilian government.
The riots resulted in a harsh series of crackdowns that effectively turned the military from the people's heroes during the Revolution into oppressors and the chief villains opposing "democracy." Between September and the end of December, something like a hundred demonstrators were killed by the Army and police, while hundreds were injured and arrested.
The military junta's tactics also turned the Brotherhood and the Salafis into heroes, and the election results show how effective the latter groups' tactics were.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
They’re still getting $1.1 billion a year from us, almost entirely for weapons. No doubt Obama is smiling about that. But do the American people really want to subsidize a gang of Islamist America haters?
No doubt Obama will continue to fund them if he is re-elected. And Mitt Romney’s record suggests that he’d do the same thing. Yet another reason, among thousands of others, why we need to shovel the current regime out, Democrat AND Republican, or sink all the way into the sewer.
Soon, the Egyptian population will be hungry as well as disillusioned.
I guess their Saudi Salafist pals will pony up the billions required for immediate wheat imports...or not.
Of course the Obama administration is looking to accelerate aid to Egypt in order to prop up what is likely to be a future enemy of America. So clueless.
If they were smart, they would start selling Egyptian antiquities as fast as possible, before the mobs finish what they started with the library at the Egyptian Scientific Institute.
So clueless?
Intentional.
....... Parading and masked as clueless, that’s the guise for the American Christian following.
What we have is a Ghazi operating in OUR White House.
Our TIC (Traitor in Chief) is now in the final stage of undermining the remaining regimes which have made peace with the only democracy in that part of the world.
I wonder why?
Could it be that he is really a Muslim?
No way..........
Food prices were one of the reasons for the “uprising” in the first place.
Without tourism, Egypt has no money. They produce nothing else. When they finish tearing down and destroying all those things not made by Islam, they will become another Islamic basket case.
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