[Tarkus2040]

Zer0 should be warning the Egyptian people about the dangers of mob rule and promoting the democratic process as the best way to solve their problems. A coup d’état born out of anarchy no road to success. Our president should be promoting the best way out of Egypt’s crisis. And he should have known in advance what was going to happen in Egypt so that the Muslim Brotherhood did not wrestle control away from the democratic will of the Egyptian people.

Just finished watching the Super Bowl softball O'reilly interview, and the Obamunist would NOT condemn Muslim Brotherhood. No surprise there, of course. Like the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi), Mubarak is a moderate dictator, which is exactly what the Middle East needs to keep the Muslim populace in control.

For example, didn't the Iranian populace scream for freedom and democracy in 1979? Yet they allowed the hardline (Sharia) mullahs to steal control like dictators from the democratic process. As it has been stated many times, the Muslim world will NEVER adopt freedom and democracy; a moderate dictator who is friendly to the Western world is the best we can ever hope for.

[jonrick46]

You open up a good question: Why does the Muslim religion have a cultural antagonism to Capitalism and Democracy?

I have my own theories, but here is one observation I will make now: This antipathy to Capitalism and Democracy puts nations ruled by Muslim theocracies at a disadvantage economically. In order to reduce that disadvantage, very unsavory methods, including blackmail and terrorist activity, are employed to limit their competitors. It is the savage against the scientific/technologic world. The West moved away from this thinking when it discovered that putting men to death for promoting a heliocentric universe served no useful purpose.