Trump responded, “The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place.” That is exactly correct.
Yes, it is. It's nice to see General Hayden putting a face to the clown car of "experts" who have managed to turn out Middle East policies into a toxic brew of larceny, mendacity, and murder. If I had anything to say about it that list of 50 would be at the top of the people fired by the incoming Trump administration.
But honest to God, I was floored by this:
Hayden explained. “We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage.”
Nice. The citizens of Egypt were, in effect, a test population for the idiot notion that the Muslim Brotherhood would either act responsibly or take responsibility for the outcome, this hopeful illusion predicated on precisely no evidence visible to anyone with the slightest acquaintance of their history. They were, recall, quite prominent in Egyptian history before, being the assassins of Sadat, one of which assassins then became the co-founder of al Qaeda, a fellow named Zawahiri, who still resides somewhere in Pakistan. How that leopard changed its spots in the intervening years is a thing I should like to hear Gen. Hayden explain, and why he imagined it would be a fun thing to turn over Egypt's citizens to them just to see what would happen. We saw what happened. They managed to trash the country in weeks. And nobody in the current administration has shown the slightest sign of regret for our lamentable role in that debacle. They'd like to try it again in Syria. I'd like to fire the lot of them.
“The citizens of Egypt were, in effect, a test population for the idiot notion that the Muslim Brotherhood would either act responsibly or take responsibility...”
Think they regard American citizens with any more respect? I don’t.