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We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East
American Thinker ^ | February 3, 2011 | James Simpson

Posted on 02/03/2011 5:48:40 PM PST by NCjim

If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination of leftist and Islamist forces provoked the protests, and we are likely looking at a ring of radical Islamic states rising up to surround Israel. Once their power is solidified, perhaps in a year or two, they will combine forces to attack Israel. If Israel falls, the United States will stand alone in a sea of virulent enemies and impotent allies.

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama administration favors a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new Egyptian government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed. And while they may have publicly renounced violence as the LA Times article claims, internal documents tell a completely different story.

And if that weren't bad enough, Obama's latest comment to Egypt's leader is that "an orderly transition ... must begin now."

Must begin. Now.

Simply stunning.

Juxtapose Obama's statements toward our allies with his reaction to the genuine uprising that occurred last year in Iran. Tunisia: "Reform or be overthrown." Egypt: "an orderly transition ... must begin now." Iran: "It is not productive ... to be seen as meddling." Meanwhile, candidate Obama claimed that the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezb'allah have "legitimate claims," and we all remember his mindless counterterrorism czar, John Brennan, reaching out to "moderate" Hezb'allah members last spring. Hezb'allah moderates?

The seeming inconsistency is astonishing. Unfortunately, there is a consistency. Obama uniformly sides with our enemies but rarely, if ever, with our friends and allies. His administration is packed with far-left radicals and vicious anti-Semites. And therein lies the rub, because what we are witnessing in reality is this president's un-American, anti-American, treasonous ideology in full play.

Perhaps this is the real reason for Bill Ayers's, Bernardine Dohrn's, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin's and Jody Evans's trips to Egypt in 2009. Following those trips, these same people made multiple visits to the White House.

Obama's breathlessly arrogant answer? Not the same Ayers, Dohrn, Benjamin, and Evans. Sure.

A few years back, I cited a quote by Lynn Stewart, the National Lawyers Guild attorney jailed for helping blind sheikh Omar Adel Raman foment terror from his New York jail cell. One might think that atheistic radical leftists would be foursquare against a political movement that tramples women's rights, murders homosexuals, and enforces strict theocratic mandates. No such luck, Stewart said:

They [radical Islamic movements] are basically forces of national liberation. And I think that we, as persons who are committed to the liberation of oppressed people, should fasten on the need for self-determination. ... My own sense is that, were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries ... to liberate.

" ... movements within their own countries ... to liberate." Given recent developments, Stewart's statement was prescient. But I think it had a special meaning. Because when movement leftists like Stewart talk about "liberation," they are really talking about communism.

It has been my longstanding assertion that Muslim terrorism is simply a false flag operation, managed in the background by our main enemies, Russia and Red China. Almost since the beginning, Muslim terrorist organizations have been supported and nurtured by the Soviet Union or its Middle Eastern surrogates.

Yasser Arafat's PLO is a prime example. Created by the KGB, the PLO was always about providing a Soviet counterweight to Israel in the Middle East. They were uninterested in the Palestinian cause, and they said so! Alexander Litvinenko, the KGB defector poisoned by Polonium 210 in what was assumed to be a KGB hit, claimed in his book, Allegations, that al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was a Soviet agent. And while today Hezb'allah is the de facto ruler of Lebanon, the real power is Ba'athist Syria.

David Horowitz wrote of the alliance between leftists and Muslim terrorists in his seminal book: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. He describes in detail how the left and Muslim radicals work together to achieve their mutual ends: the destruction of America.

It is incomprehensible that President Obama does not recognize the strategic significance of what is happening, and if he does, then his support of Egypt's sham "democracy movement" is a naked betrayal of our Middle Eastern allies and, by extension, our own country.

Unfortunately, his view is shared by some Republicans who are so in love with the idea of "democracy" that it doesn't matter to them that the "democrats" in this case include fanatic mass murderers. At best, it can be seen only as incredibly myopic and ignorant to support Mubarak's enemies. People make the same mistake Carter did with Iran and Nicaragua: they commit the logical error of assuming that just because a country's current leadership is flawed and "undemocratic," that automatically means that someone else would do better. Newsflash: they can do worse, and almost without exception, they do, because people who take power by street riot have no interest in "democracy."

If their street revolutions are successful, these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies. Israel will be the first target, and with Obama's radically anti-Israel orientation, the Israelis will stand alone. We will be next. One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; egyptcrisis; february2011; foreignpolicy; me; mecollapse; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood
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1 posted on 02/03/2011 5:48:45 PM PST by NCjim
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To: NCjim

No we are witnessing the formation of the Middle East region of the New World Order. If they pull it off. This is not a Muzzie uprising. It is orchestrated by the Bilderbergers and CFR. Most Muzzies are scratching their heads wondering what the hell is going on.


2 posted on 02/03/2011 5:51:52 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: NCjim
It happened before. SSDD and no documentation, still.



3 posted on 02/03/2011 5:52:06 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: NCjim
Must begin. Now.

Obama is TELLING, not asking.

He's a dictator at heart.

4 posted on 02/03/2011 5:52:17 PM PST by SteamShovel (Beware the RINO-VIRUS...It will kill the TEA Party movement.)
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To: NCjim

This is as bad as it gets, folks. And Obama is right there in the thick of things, making it as bad as bad can be.

Our Traitor President (OTP)


5 posted on 02/03/2011 5:53:05 PM PST by samtheman
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To: NCjim

No words can describe the evil of 0bama.


6 posted on 02/03/2011 5:53:44 PM PST by unkus
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Israel might be first but Europe will probably be second,
then latin America, then North America and finally
there will be peace.

Right./s


7 posted on 02/03/2011 5:53:53 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: NCjim
... One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.

Do we have to take bets on the answer to that?

8 posted on 02/03/2011 5:54:29 PM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: NCjim

That democrats and the mainstream media support radical Islamic states shows that democrats/liberals are pure evil. That democrats and their media hate us grass roots, freedom loving tea party people shows that democrats/liberals are pure evil.


9 posted on 02/03/2011 5:55:18 PM PST by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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To: NCjim

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever.”

-George Orwell


10 posted on 02/03/2011 5:55:58 PM PST by Rapscallion (They passed it without reading it; so now rescind it without reading it.)
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To: NCjim

I’m not religious, but if I were, I’d seriously wonder if we aren’t seeing what will eventually lead to Armageddon over there. I believe the author is a bit optimistic in his prediction of this taking a year or two. After the animals take over all of those countries, it won’t be long at all before they all turn their sights on Israel.


11 posted on 02/03/2011 5:56:28 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: NCjim

We are in the end of days.


12 posted on 02/03/2011 5:58:13 PM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: tet68

Israel might be first but Europe will probably be second,
then latin America, then North America and finally
there will be peace.

Of course by the time it gets to that stage we might
in an example of irony, find ourselves allied with
China and Northern Russia who will find out they
have taken an asp to their breast too late.


13 posted on 02/03/2011 5:58:13 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Russia and China will back the Muslims at first. Eventually Russia will come to our side.

It has already been predicted.


14 posted on 02/03/2011 6:02:14 PM PST by Peter from Rutland
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To: NCjim
We are watching histoy repeat itself right before our eyes.



Just swap the Blakans for Spain.

15 posted on 02/03/2011 6:03:04 PM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: screaminsunshine

The Muzzies, under the direction of Iran, are installing the Caliphate and the only thing they’re wondering about is why all of a sudden the US is supporting this.

Islam is a political and economic system that results in poverty and oppression for the majority of the members of Muslim countries, but great wealth for the minority. I think these countries, thanks to oil, have suddenly reached such wealth at their upper levels that they can control much of the world economy.

I think the Muslims always believed that we would hold out till the end. But with a Muslim-Marxist president, suddenly we have switched sides and we are promoting the Islamization of the entire world, not only in terms of religion, but in terms of politics and economy, too.

Islam is a fatalistic, irrational, anti-intellectual and repressive system that prevents its believers from achieving anything.


16 posted on 02/03/2011 6:03:38 PM PST by livius
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To: NCjim

Mecca soon to be a glassed over parking lot.


17 posted on 02/03/2011 6:05:09 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: tet68

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...pVpY&feature=related

Some interesting speculation about the future. Islam knows that the socialist materialism of the American, Canadian, and European left is a self limited problem because demographics are destiny.


18 posted on 02/03/2011 6:07:25 PM PST by Yet_Again
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To: unkus

Tool of the anti-christ...and one day will be in the lowest bowels of hell.


19 posted on 02/03/2011 6:07:30 PM PST by hope
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To: KoRn
I’m not religious, but if I were, I’d seriously wonder if we aren’t seeing what will eventually lead to Armageddon over there.

Keep a Bible handy just in case. Take it a step further and go to the religious section of a bookstore and pick up a book that details the Book of Revelation - that will put the hair on the back of your head - even if you are not religious.

I believe the author is a bit optimistic in his prediction of this taking a year or two. After the animals take over all of those countries, it won’t be long at all before they all turn their sights on Israel.

And Iraq. And Turkey and...

20 posted on 02/03/2011 6:08:12 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (If raising taxes on an activity reduces such an activity, let's tax liberalism to death.)
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