Posted on 11/26/2012 8:59:46 AM PST by chessplayer
As has so often been the case for nearly four years, one needs to go to the editorial pages of the nation's two leading financial publications, the Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily, to get to the truth behind news developments, especially the ones with potential to cast the Obama administration in a bad light.
There may not be a better example of the press ignoring the obvious than the circumstances surrounding Mohammed Morsi's dictatorial power grab in Egypt. Morsi gained substantial perceived world standing when the U.S. government praised him lavishly (or is it slavishly?) for his involvement in brokering a truce of sorts in the Israel-Hamas conflict. As a Friday IBD editorial pointed out, Morsi is now "using America's stamp of approval to oppress his own people" (bolds are mine throughout this post):
... Morsi has become just as tyrannical as his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak — except Mubarak was a staunch U.S. ally who maintained peace with Israelis and kept the Mideast powder keg stable for decades, while Morsi so reviles the Jewish homeland he won't let the word "Israel" pass his lips.
... don't expect White House press secretary Jay Carney to announce that the Egyptian people's "grievances have reached a boiling point, and they have to be addressed," as his predecessor Robert Gibbs did when Mubarak was on the ropes.
And don't hold your breath for Clinton — or whoever her successor is at the State Department — to call for "an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy.
... It took 24 hours for Morsi to take advantage of the prestige Obama and his secretary of state handed him. Now he's using America's stamp of approval to oppress his own people.
Doesn’t matter to the Amerimoron public. Most Amerimorons couldn’t find Egypt on a map if the countries were labeled. Not only that, it’s shopping season, black Friday, cyber Monday... the Amerimorons are busily accumulating debt because they feel good about the things Obama will bring them.
As for me... stay debt free, and stock up, it’s not going to be pretty.
Within two weeks the Egyptian Army will stage a coup and Morsi will be dead.
Benghazi was a start that Obama was able to keep the lid on with the slavish assistance of the corrupt MSM. Twenty-four hours after the election the Middle East exploded. Cooincidence?
I think Obama leaned heavily on Morsi before the election to keep the lid on things. Then, after the election, Obama heaped praise on Morsi. This cauldren of a mess is going to grow and it’s all Obama’s fault.
Within two weeks the Egyptian Army will stage a coup and Morsi will be dead.
And that is a best case scenario too!
“Within two weeks the Egyptian Army will stage a coup and Morsi will be dead.”
The Generals in Israel and Egypt have been talking for 20 years. They are probably more loyal to Israe then they are to Morsi.
Morsi has already purged most of the generals (and even police officers) who were not loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood or its Islamist agenda. Don’t expect any help from that front.
As for the Egyptian judiciary, they’ll probably be dead in a week or so...or out of the country. But where will they flee? Not here, because I’m sure anybody who opposes Islamism is now an enemy of the United States.
The problem is that those Egyptian generals aren’t there anymore: they’re either not in the land of the living or not in the Egyptian army - or have bowed down and are complicit with the new Islamist regime because they want to keep their jobs and their lives.
The Islamists got rid of secularist generals right off the bat. Barely reported by our press, of course.
It’s worse than that. Obama knew that Morsi was a Muslim terrorist way back when he supported him against Mubarak.
The whole “Muslim Spring,” in which relatively stable and half secularized countries all over North Africa and the Middle East were handed over to Muslim terrorists, would never have happened without Obama’s support—especially his illegal war in Libya. But the handover of Egypt was just as bad, if not worse.
Of course, the French and the Brits also took the lead—as they did earlier in Yugoslavia. But it was Obama who enabled them to commit civilizational suicide in their march toward Eurabia.
And the press eagerly helped, even while these animals were raping members of their own press corps while shouting “Allahu Akhbar!”
More iphones! More big-screens! More circuses!
In the immortal words of Veruca Salt: “I don't care how, I want it now!”
Yes, that was foreseeable, too. The same thing happened earlier to the Generals in Egypt, after they incautiously allowed a Muslim fanatic to become Prime Minister instead of stepping in and removing him, as they had always done before. So, Turkey changed from our ally to our enemy.
I mean Turkey!
Actually they are burning and destroying Muslim Brotherhood offices and installations as we speak with relative impunity. Probably killing the MB stooges as well. I would not be surprised if the current upheaval is being caused by Army regulars in civilian garb as their targets for attack are quite focused. Remember not all coups happen at the commanding general level (i.e. Romania and USSR 1991)but in the lower ranks. It is a simple reality of numbers and guns. The guy with the most of both wins. The Egyptian military rank and file was largely pro-Mubarak and they hold nearly all of the guns. They will kill Morsi’s stooge generals too with extreme prejudice and then get him. It is an inevitability.
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