..by recognizing the Brotherhood and having contacts with it, the Obama administration also makes a unilateral concession encouraging the Brotherhood. People who know the Middle East understand how this works: Soon many Egyptians will say (as they said in Iran and as they now say in Turkey) that the United States wants the Islamists to win.
What a comprehensive disaster this administration is, on almost all policy fronts. And as usual, Al Reuters doesn’t cover itself in glory, either.
[Update a few minutes later]
This comment is interesting:
The comparisons of Egypt to Nazi Germany are increasingly appropriate. First comes the overthrow of the government (mission accomplished). Next comes the “cleansing” of the state of “undesirables” (in this case Coptic Christians and any other identifiable non-Muslim minorities in the country) and then comes the war of aggression (against Israel). Egypt is in Phase II right now. It’s unclear how long it will take for Phase II to be completed. But when it is completed and there’s nobody left in Egypt to oppose it, then will come the war. Of course the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t have to wait for Phase II to be completed to attack Israel. They’re already doing it by supporting anti-Israeli Islamist terrorism as well as the anti-Israeli agenda of the Left.
The good news is that, unlike German, they have no industry to speak of. But that by itself won’t stop them from acquiring the weapons they need.
There’s also the fact that if they do try to go against Israel, they’re going to get their asses handed to them yet again.
They don’t have an industrial base to mass produce state of the art weaponry but they do have a lot of countries that are willing to sell them arms and in the mean time they have all the weaponry that we have sold them.
No industry to speak of? I wish that were true. Egypt has 1005 M1 Abrams tanks. And, they MAKE them, in a co-production deal with the US.
That’s not the only heavy weapon they make, either. Tank recovery and mine clearance vehicles (same ones we sue, in co-production).
HAWK missiles are another I remember.
Egypt’s munitions industry is by far the largest in the Arab world, and guess who paid for it? The US, part of the billion-plus a year in military aid we give them. How very clever of us. UGh.
Good catch Arizona CJ.
Israel should open its borders to the Coptics. Welcome them in with open arms. The Left would have kittens trying to figure out how to condemn them without sounding like complete idio–
Oh. Wait.
I think I’ve finally figured out what happened in 2008. We’re all living the ultimate reality TV show. Obama is the hapless boob – think The Truman Show or An Idiot Abroad – with no job experience and nothing to show for his life except for two autobiographies written by age 45 (and it isn’t even certain he wrote them). The pitch for the show must’ve gone something like this:
Pitchman: Hey, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s push to elect someone totally unqualified to be the next president of the United States! We’ll be guaranteed at least a 4 year run as we watch him blunder from one stupid thing to another.
Media Exec: Won’t that be hard?
Pitchman: No, I’ve got it figured out. First, we’ll push a black guy as our dupe and call anyone who doesn’t support him a racist. Second, we’ll get the news department to push every negative story we can find or invent to get the country in a bad mood like we did in 1992. Third, we’ll tell everyone how brillant the guy is and expect everyone to believe it without a shred of evidence. Finally, we’ll point out how “cool” he is to get the young and stupid vote.
Media Exec: Sounds like a plan. What’s in it for us?
Pitchman: We’ll be more influential than ever before!
Media Exec: Who will be the boob?
Pitchman: We’ve found the idea candidate. His name is Obama and he’s the junior senator from Illinois. He reads well from a teleprompter and has a nice looking family but the guy is a total idiot when it comes to economics, history, or actually accomplishing anything. He spent years hanging around radicals and marxists. He’ll run the country into the ground in no time.
Media Exec: Go for it!