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Losing Egypt?
Front Page magazine ^ | January 28, 2010

Posted on 01/28/2011 9:50:28 AM PST by La Lydia

“An earthquake has shaken the region" - The above headline from an Israeli newspaper describes with unfailing accuracy the pivotal events now taking place in the Middle East. In Egypt, the Arab world’s largest and most populous country of more than 80 million, massive demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people began on Tuesday in what was billed as a “Day of Anger” and are continuing despite a ban by a very rattled government. Smaller protests are likewise occurring in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Algeria. The domino effect so feared by Middle Eastern strongmen after Tunisian protesters chased their president from power earlier this month after a 24-year rule may soon become reality in Egypt....

The disappearance of Arab strongmen like Tunisia’s ruler, and now possibly Mubarak, opens up the ominous and dangerous potential for a Khomeini-style 1979 Islamist victory befalling Egypt — which would be a catastrophic development not only for American and Israeli security interests, but for the Egyptian people themselves. One need only recall Khomeini’s killing fields and his Islamic Republic’s vicious history, continued to this day, to understand the horrifying consequences of Islamists succeeding in exploiting the current strife in Egypt to their benefit.

However corrupt Egypt’s regime may have been or continues to be, Mubarak succeeded in keeping the Islamists and the religious radicals in check. The Muslim Brotherhood, a major fundamentalist Egyptian opposition group that Mubarak had banned, will definitely try to take advantage of any further economic frustration or breakdown to set up the longed-for Islamic state, probably by promising those who have nothing that they will create a Muslim utopia of social justice, patterned after the Prophet Mohammad’s rule. That is the bait to hijack the revolution, like the Bolsheviks promised “peace, land and bread” to the uneducated, downtrodden Russian masses to get their support, only to bring in the Red Terror in return.

As history warns, the Islamists, if successful in seizing power, will internally perpetrate a Khmer Rouge/Khomeini-type bloodbath the likes of which Egypt has never seen before. The first victims will most likely be the country’s religious minorities. Externally, they will involve Egypt in a jihad/war against Israel, Europe or the Shiites and, like Iran, strive to build nuclear weapons.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhomiddleeast; egypt; izlam; mubarak; terror; violence
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There is no way this is going to end well. And the US government is clueless, on a Jimmy Carter level.
1 posted on 01/28/2011 9:50:33 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
There is no way this is going to end well.

They (and we) will go right from the frying pan into the fire.

2 posted on 01/28/2011 9:52:15 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: La Lydia

“We” never “HAd’ Egypt...


3 posted on 01/28/2011 9:52:34 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: La Lydia

Yup. The radical-islamists know that they have a friend in the white house so now is the best time to go for the gusto, made easier w/Iranian backing.

Don’t forget Turkey too.


4 posted on 01/28/2011 9:52:51 AM PST by fruser1
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To: La Lydia

Yes, The Brotherhood knows they have a short window to accomplish as much as possible while there is a Muslim as US president who will sit idly by.


5 posted on 01/28/2011 9:56:21 AM PST by MissMack99 (Being held up at gun point since Obama took office.)
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To: La Lydia
And the US government is clueless, on a Jimmy Carter level.

And what exactly do you expect the U.S. government to do?

6 posted on 01/28/2011 9:56:49 AM PST by K-Stater
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To: fruser1
Don't forget Turkey too.

Yeap. Turkey will collapse. And there is no way Obamy will be able to talk to them. They hate the US. What a mess we'll have on our hands.

7 posted on 01/28/2011 9:57:28 AM PST by ExtremeUnction
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To: La Lydia
So are we too believe that these are Freedom Loving Islamists? Fighting for democratic rights or fanatics wanting to establish a caliphate from which to kill everybody else that does not bend their ass in the air, to Mohammed's face?
8 posted on 01/28/2011 9:58:44 AM PST by gitmogrunt
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To: fruser1
I haven't forgotten Turkey. Turkey is already going Islamist by ballots rather than bullets.

Lebanon is now going to be run by Hezbollah. Who knows how Tunisia turns out? Jordan is feeling the heat.

There probably is an unhappy ending here. And the Obama Administration will most likely come off the worst for it. And who knows what will happen with oil prices?

I now think that Mubarak is toast. And if the Muslim Brotherhood gains power, it's "Katie bar the door." We will be talking about another Arab-Israeli war in short order.

9 posted on 01/28/2011 9:59:55 AM PST by Lysandru
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To: gitmogrunt

I’ll take the “caliphate from which to kill everybody else who does not bend their ass in the air” for $1,000, Alex.


10 posted on 01/28/2011 10:00:42 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: K-Stater

Well, for starters, Hillary could shut up and not enrage the misogynists even more.


11 posted on 01/28/2011 10:05:16 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

Clueless?
Heck, Obama and Hillary could be backing this to put pressure on Israel.
Fools.


12 posted on 01/28/2011 10:06:34 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: K-Stater

You would be surprised. Zero is facing the utter and complete failure of his Administration. He would not be the first President to see WAR as a way out.

However, if as is believed by his overtures to the Islamofascist he is in line with their ideology, we are facing a full scale attack that will threaten our very survival.
Sound alarmist? It is meant to be. Wake up.


13 posted on 01/28/2011 10:06:59 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: La Lydia
Well, for starters, Hillary could shut up and not enrage the misogynists even more.

No, seriously.

14 posted on 01/28/2011 10:07:26 AM PST by K-Stater
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To: Marty62

Once again. What should the US do?


15 posted on 01/28/2011 10:08:05 AM PST by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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To: La Lydia

“There is no way this is going to end well. And the US government is clueless, on a Jimmy Carter level. “

As with Jimmmy Carter, nothing is getting done in this country on major issues. Persistently high unemployment continues, immigration has not been addressed, tax reform is needed, the staggering debt load is threatening to crush the economy, a steadily declining housing market. With Obama it’s not a question of being clueless, it’s a matter of deiberate neglect combined with massive incompetence.


16 posted on 01/28/2011 10:08:59 AM PST by Starboard
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To: La Lydia

Egypt is lost already. Military is out with tanks and joining the protesters. The muslim brotherhood is taking over, which means AQ taking over - which is in Obama’s job description. Now there will ba an AQ war machine capable of producing M1 tanks.

Tunisia is long gone, Yemen is following, and Jordan. This will all be over by March.


17 posted on 01/28/2011 10:09:19 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Marty62
You would be surprised.

Then surprise me. What could Obama have done to prevent what's happening in Tunisia and Egypt? What should he be doing now?

18 posted on 01/28/2011 10:09:59 AM PST by K-Stater
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To: La Lydia

Horowitz should show more humility . He and his fellow neocons helped to create this blowback through their support of these dictators (courtesy of our hard-earned tax dollars). Ron Paul was right.


19 posted on 01/28/2011 10:10:31 AM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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To: ExtremeUnction

Perhaps, but the military is very secular and won’t hesitate to intervene. The spirit of Atturk lives on in Turkey, especially the military.


20 posted on 01/28/2011 10:10:49 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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