In attempting satire, it seems appropriate to get temporarily into the mindsets of those being satirized. I could, I suppose, have referred to Obama as a god, or as my Jewish friends might prefer, as a g_d. I did think, briefly, about doing that but decided against it.
[T]here’s a huge difference between current U.S. policy towards Egypt and its policy during the Mubarak era. Before, the foreign policy quid pro quo of a “blind eye” from the U.S. was the willingness to serve as a bulwark of U.S. interests in the region, including our interest in the security of Israel. But Morsi gets the same favorable treatment while tilting Egypt towards Iran and reordering Egypt’s relationship with Israel.Here's another from the same source yesterday:One can only assume that Morsi’s policies with respect to Iran and Israel, like his moves towards authoritarian rule, are fine with Obama. Indeed, it’s doubtful that, for Obama, the Arab Spring that he welcomed was ever about the triumph of democracy. More likely, it was always about the triumph of radicalism — the wave of the future.
To Obama, the perception that something is “the wave of the future” goes a long way. Like most hard-core leftists, Obama craves to ride the wave of the future and possesses the intellectual arrogance to believe he can unerringly discern that wave.But we shouldn’t overlook the strong possibility that Obama wants the Muslim Brotherhood to be the wave of the future in the Middle East. Perhaps it is that wish that causes him to conclude, for example, that Morsi’s rather unimpressive electoral victory in Egypt is evidence of a wave that will sweep away more moderate, pro-democratic, and pro-American elements.