Well, Mookie, maybe you should have thought this through a little better when you rammed Sharia onto a population that didn’t want it, and ignored the fact that 80 million people have a different set of priorities, like food and jobs.
Independence Day .... On the Fourth!
And the Arab Spring begins its new season....
This will continue to be a feature of most Islamic countries for perhaps decades to come, and the United States can be a player one way or another on this, or take the role of disinterested observer (?). One way to take part would be to support one faction or another of this bloody internecine combat, shifting support to the side that is for the moment getting short shrift of the battle, or to clandestinely support BOTH (or if more, ALL) sides in the conflict, being their supplier of arms and war material, or by mounting our own expeditionary force. The last is the very worst of options. All the factions would forget their animosities with each other and turn on the Americans with a ferocity unmatched by wild beasts.
But if the US were to withdraw and simply form a perimeter around the kill zone, to keep the battle from spreading to uninvolved bystanders, perhaps this is the better option all around. Meanwhile, the rest of the world’s economy is adjusted to not NEED the diminished flow of crude oil from that region, which cuts the fighting factions double - both in cutting off their funds to continue the fight, and eventually depletes their twisted desire to build a Worldwide Caliphate, as they sink back into truly Third World conditions.
There is a way to play this smart. But do not count upon the Current Regime in the White Hut to pursue that course, or even recognize what that course is.
So our newly installed resident goes to the University of Cairo in his first official overseas trip and dictates to Mubarek to release Morsi from jail.
Morsi is released and all heel ensues. Then blitzartig elections are held and the only political party that is organized well enough is the islamist MB.
Then they write a new constitution guaranteeing control of the party in future elections and control over the entire society.
Looks as though Obama’s foreign policy is up in flames. And John Kerry will not save Obama’s ass from this disaster.
Didn’t Obama threaten to withhold arms sold to Egypt’s military if they did this? LOL.
Is our military taking notes?
I hate living in a banana republic.
Hosni Mubarak must be looking as good to the Egyptians at this point as George W. Bush is looking to Americans.
And who knows what Egypt’s new kinder, gentler secular dictator will be like?
If the Egyptians still had any money left, someone could make a fortune selling Hosni Mubarak ‘’Miss Me Yet?’’ tee-shirts in Tahrir Square.
NBC? This story is one of those “sun rising in the east” type of stories. Was going to occur, just a question of when...
Still, NBC....anyone heard this from a more reliable source, like DEBKA?