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WHO LOST EGYPT?
Dick Morris .com ^ | January 29,2011 | Dick Morris

Posted on 01/29/2011 5:26:54 PM PST by Hojczyk

In the 1950s, the accusation "who lost China" resonated throughout American politics and led to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1952. Unless President Obama reverses field and strongly opposes letting the Muslim brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit with the modern equivalent of the 1952 question: Who Lost Egypt?

The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall. The Obama Administration, in failing to throw its weight against an Islamic takeover, is guilty of the same mistake that led President Carter to fail to support the Shah, opening the door for the Ayatollah Khomeini to take over Iran.

The United States has enormous leverage in Egypt - far more than it had in Iran. We provide Egypt with upwards of $2 billion a year in foreign aid under the provisos of the Camp David Accords orchestrated by Carter. The Egyptian military, in particular, receives $1.3 billion of this money. The United States, as the pay master, needs to send a signal to the military that it will be supportive of its efforts to keep Egypt out of the hands of the Islamic fundamentalists. Instead, Obama has put our military aid to Egypt "under review" to pressure Mubarak to mute his response to the demonstrators and has given top priority to "preventing the loss of human life."

President Obama should say that Egypt has always been a friend of the United States. He should point out that it was the first Arab country to make peace with Israel. He should recall that President Sadat, who signed the peace accords, paid for doing so with his life and that President Mubarak has carried on in his footsteps. He should condemn the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood extremists to take over the country and indicate that America stands by her longtime ally. He should address the need for reform and urge Mubarak to enact needed changes. But his emphasis should be on standing with our ally.

The return of Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has to Egypt as the presumptive heir to Mubarak tells us where this revolution is headed. Carolyn Glick, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, explains how dangerous ElBaradei is. "As IAEA head," she writes, "Elbaradei shielded Iran's nuclear weapons program from the Security Council. He [has] continued to lobby against significant UN Security Council sanctions or other actions against Iran...Last week, he dismissed the threat of a nuclear armed Iran [saying] 'there is a lot of hype in this debate'."

As for the Muslim Brotherhood, Glick notes that "it forms the largest and best organized opposition to the Mubarak regime and [is] the progenitor of Hamas and al Qaidi. It seeks Egypt's transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the forefront of the global jihad."

Now is the time for Republicans and conservatives to start asking the question: Who is losing Egypt? We need to debunk the starry eyed idealistic yearning for reform and the fantasy that a liberal democracy will come from these demonstrations. It won't. Iranian domination will.

Egypt, with 80 million people, is the largest country in the Middle East or North Africa. Combined with Iran's 75 million (the second largest) they have 155 million people. By contrast the entire rest of the region -- Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, UAE, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar combined-- have only 200 million.

We must not let the two most populous and powerful nations in the region fall under the sway of Muslim extremism, the one through the weakness of Jimmy Carter and the other through the weakness of Barack Obama.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dickmorris; egypt; egyptcrisis; islam; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood; notaboutpalin; obama; wot
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To: Frantzie

He is one of the stupider people I’ve seen in a long time, he just happens to be one of those special sorts of stupid people: the well-educated pseudo-academic who has spent years learning to ape what they read in books, and regurgitate it to their professors in the way that they already know the professor wants to hear it, but who has neither true intelligence nor wisdom. Go to any university campus and you’ll see enough of them to make you violently ill.


21 posted on 01/29/2011 5:50:45 PM PST by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: gusty
I think most Americans feel very conflicted. Our hearts empathize with all those seeking freedom and identify with the best of the youthful idealism we see in the streets, but our heads tell us that revolutions are almost always bloody affairs with unpredictable consequences that frequently lead to even more virulent totalitarianism. Like the Shah before him, Mubarak is a dictator by our standards, but what may follow him, as in Iran, may be far more repressive for Egyptians. If an Islamist government comes to power in Egypt we will rue this revolution.
22 posted on 01/29/2011 5:51:13 PM PST by americanophile ("The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." - George Washington)
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To: Oceander

himno thug.... more informed than you imagine...No Clue???

I dont think so. His mantra is “Death to America”

For Obama? Its the ..current policy from the white house.....the marginalization and destruction of America.

Obama , culturally never was an American as he carries many chips on his shoulder and as we see from his old culture at many levels. He feels for his Kenyan identity, he feels for his muslim identity, and he feels his angst against white and America....

Its all about death to America....death to the great satan!
from a previous posting, see second last paragraph...

His drive against America is demonstrated in his unfettered support of the OIC driven “UN”.

On top of it, Obama is a Muslim wanabe or Wahabe, I call him a ghazi.

“One of the prettiest sounds on earth” is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset.
Barack Hussein Obama as quoted by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times - March 6, 2007

• The FIRST thing Obama did as a newly elected Illinois State Senator was to attempt to declare a Muslim holiday. Obama sponsored Bill SR0110 in the 90th General Assembly to declare November 1, 1997 to be Islamic Community Center Day. It did not pass.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/srgroups/sr/900SR0110LV.html

• His biological father was a Muslim.
http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/?title=Barack_Obama%2C_Sr.&src=abop&qpvt=barack+obama+seniot&q=barack+obama+senior&fwd=1

• Because his biological father was a Muslim the Islam world thinks he is a Muslim.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/08/obama_is_a_muslim_18_24_or.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• His stepfather was a Muslim.
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia. An Indonesian Madrasa.
• Barack Hussein Obama’s first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.
Barack was the name for Mohammad’s horse. Husein, enough said.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700246419/Barack-Muhammads-horse.html
http://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/will-be-obama-with-us-muslims-as-the-meaning-of-his-name-in-persian-language/

• Obama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07 (***this one is a gottcha moment***)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3413/pub_detail.asp
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11679

• On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth.”
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
http://caosblog.com/archives/7373

• Obama belonged to Rev. Wright’s (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
http://endtimes.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/289

• Obama’s said that the U.S. is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/obama_america_one_of_the_large_1.asp

• Obama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1724544/obama_cancels_national_day_of_prayer.html?cat=9
http://www.exposeobama.com/

• President Obama’s religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States “the ideal place for the renewal of Islam.”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

• Obama does not give gifts on Christmas.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12035.html

• Obama doesn’t celebrate his birthday.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/a-tough-birthday-for-obama/

• Obama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7041/pub_detail.asp

• Obama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.
http://blog.acton.org/archives/9843-notre-dame-georgetown-and-president-obama.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/11/opinion/main5006203.shtml
http://dougpowers.com/2009/04/17/obamas-jesus-coverup/

• Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech
http://myfaithspace.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-covers-christ-and-cross
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667

• Obama’s first major speech in office was a “Muslim outreach” speech in Cairo Egypt.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8083171.stm

• “The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bombshell-egyptian-foreign-minister-ahmed-aboul-gheit-says-on-egyptian-tv-%e2%80%9cthe-american-president-told-me-in-confidence-that-he-is-still-a-muslim-%e2%80%9d/
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=166905

• Obama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day’s end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492?ncid=webmail

• Obama tasked NASA with a mission of “Muslim outreach.”
http://technology.newsplurk.com/2010/07/nasa-and-islam.html

• Obama referred to his faith as “my Muslim faith” gaffe in an interview with George Stephanopolous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I

• Pushes Islamic freedom of religion but not Jewish or Christian freedoms. Several weeks ago he told Israel NOT to build settlements in East Jerusalem. But OK to build that Mosque at Ground Zero.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7514285/Israel-spits-in-Obamas-eye-by-announcing-new-settlements-in-east-Jerusalem.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/24/barack-obama-israel-settlement-plan

All this brings on a interesting question... how can America have any struggle against Islam, or protect herself with the most powerful muslim in the world sitting in the White House?

Be wary, wary aware ....and wary, wary afraid...get prepared for more creeping sharia...more than what is coming out of the White House today


23 posted on 01/29/2011 5:51:29 PM PST by himno hero
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To: Hojczyk

MSM:

Ask me again if I believe Obama is trying to harm America.


24 posted on 01/29/2011 5:52:15 PM PST by NoLibZone (Five time DNC backed candidate Fred Phelps: "God sent the shooter".)
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To: Hojczyk

**** WHO LOST EGYPT? ****

Not part of the states, never was.

Not interested in another “war fever” to bailout the Beltway and the banking carpetbagger scam.


25 posted on 01/29/2011 5:52:53 PM PST by Varsity Flight
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To: himno hero

If that makes you happy.


26 posted on 01/29/2011 5:54:23 PM PST by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: Hojczyk

OBLs 2nd in command al zahwahiri is Egyptian Muslim brotherhood.


27 posted on 01/29/2011 5:55:38 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: nascarnation

Gibbs is nervous because the Muslim Brotherhood leaders that were arrested in Egypt on Friday night are now getting the electrodes on the testicles treatment by the new Egyptian VP and are ratting out Obama these very minute.


28 posted on 01/29/2011 5:57:14 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Hojczyk

Who lost Egypt? The anti-war democrats lost Egypt. If W did not face a firestorm over the Iraq war, tyrants like Mubarak would have had to reform their rule many years ago. But because the democrats and the media cut the legs from under W with their never ending attacks, the Mubaraks of the Middle East knew Bush did not have the domestic support to fully implement his ideas to democratize the Middle East. Now it is too late and the Muslim Brotherhood will benefit from the unrest occurring in the Middle East today.


29 posted on 01/29/2011 6:00:18 PM PST by gusty
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To: Hojczyk
First I'd heard of Shi'ite Iranian fundamentalists being in league with the Sunni Egyptian/Arab fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

I do worry about the sort of “amateur hour” foreign affairs farce that always seems to occur when Democrat administrations take office. The comparison of Obama’s ineptitude with Carter's ... “Often wrong, never in doubt” ... is both apt and central to our problem. What's worse today is that we have a Secretary of State who is more about managing her career and legacy than managing American foreign policy.

30 posted on 01/29/2011 6:05:13 PM PST by Mobties (Let the markets work! Reduce the government footprint!)
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To: Hojczyk
"The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall"

I didn't know Morris was this dumb about international affairs.

The MB would rot in the gutters of hell before they did Iran's bidding. They are mortal enemies.

That doesn't mean the MB is benign, or doesn't hate the West and Israel. It just means they hate Persians/Shiites more.

31 posted on 01/29/2011 6:14:39 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: himno hero

Just wait for Sharia law to kick Rachel Maddow off TV, put Hollywood out of business, and begin to have beheadings of gays and outspoken actors....this WILL happen in this country. Islamist fundamentals are willing and believe they are commanded to kill the infidel and we are all infidels to them. Women will have to cover up (of course that hides Hillary’s face which is a good thing), they will lose all the freedoms they bandy around just so they can claim the right to abortion which will now result in the death of the unborn child and the mother. It will be ironic on all fronts (and I do not hope it happens) but those who have been so outspoken against our country and vulgar in their behavior will find themselves under the threat of beheadings. Scary times. Be afraid, be very afraid.


32 posted on 01/29/2011 6:22:24 PM PST by Semperfiwife (Mama always said "Stupid is as Stupid does". Mama was talking about the Congress.)
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To: blasater1960

FuBarack Hussein Obama......I think you’re on to something there. ;)


33 posted on 01/29/2011 6:23:44 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: Hojczyk

the pudgy toe-sucker has a point.


34 posted on 01/29/2011 6:23:52 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: gusty
"Without the military involved in the next government, the moderate leaders of the demonstrations will end up before the Brotherhoods firing squads in one years time."

The Army is and has always been the government of Egypt. They hate the MB and kill them whenever they can get away with it.

35 posted on 01/29/2011 6:26:42 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner

Really, you must have missed this part:

“The return of Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has to Egypt as the presumptive heir to Mubarak tells us where this revolution is headed”

More info:

Dr. Yasser Najib Abdel Mabboud, has accused Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, former Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency and a candidate in the Egyptian presidential elections, of covertly receiving over $7 million from Iran’s regime as support for ‘political reform in Egypt’.

http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2010/09/ex-iaea-head-el-baradi-got-7m-from-iran.html


36 posted on 01/29/2011 6:27:53 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: gusty; Just A Nobody

Very asute observations, gusty.


37 posted on 01/29/2011 6:30:47 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: Electric Graffiti
"Mohamed El Baradei"

Is not now nor has he ever been important in Egypt. Even if he has $7mil, the generals will take it from him before the connect the electrodes to his balls.

38 posted on 01/29/2011 6:33:32 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner
I didn't know Morris was this dumb about international affairs.

The MB would rot in the gutters of hell before they did Iran's bidding. They are mortal enemies.

That statement by Morris struck me as odd, since the MB are Sunnis and the Iranians are Shiite.

One of the reasons Lebanon is taking so long to fall into the hands of majority Shiite Hezbolla, is there is a large minority of Sunnis who don't want an Iranian backed Shiite success there.

If the Muslims in Lebanon were either all Shi'ite or all Sunni, the Christians would be long gone by now. - tom

39 posted on 01/29/2011 6:45:24 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Mariner

“Is not now nor has he ever been important in Egypt. Even if he has $7mil, the generals will take it from him before they connect the electrodes to his balls. “

I’m sorry Mariner, maybe I’m just tired or something but I haven’t been able to stop laughing hysterically at this post of yours. LOL


40 posted on 01/29/2011 6:48:07 PM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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