EDITORIAL: The next Mideast war--Obama policies are pushing volatile region to the brink

The Washington Times ^ | February 4, 2011 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

The Obama administration is pressing a reset button to return the Middle East to the bad old days of open Arab-Israeli warfare. The White House is requiring participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in any prospective new Egyptian government, while the brothers themselves are telling their countrymen to “prepare for war.” The current crisis in Egypt and the Obama administration’s maladroit response are forcing strategists to consider conflict scenarios that had been mothballed since the 1970s.

The Camp David Accords have formed the bedrock of U.S. security policy in the Mideast region since they were signed in 1978. The strategic logic behind the accords was that no coalition of Arab states could have a chance of waging a successful conventional conflict against Israel without including powerful Egypt. Subtracting Cairo from the equation would mean no new Arab-Israeli wars.

The possibility now looms that Egypt could be back on the bad side of the ledger. Rather than reaching out to progressive, secular, Western-oriented dissident groups, who are more sympathetic to the United States and not virulently anti-Israel, President Obama is inexplicably placing his weight behind “important non-secular actors” such as the America-hating Muslim Brotherhood. A new government dominated by these Islamic extremists would almost certainly seek another round of conflict. The brothers have not only threatened war against Israel but also have a long term objective of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated...

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Mr. Obama is in over his head with this crisis and may end up helping dismantle the only positive and lasting achievement of Jimmy Carter’s administration. The Obama team could not have better orchestrated a looming existential crisis for Israel and the Mideast if they had tried.

[jazusamo]

That's a fair question and being we can't get in his head we must go by his actions.

In the article linked below regarding the mess in the middle east some say he knows exactly what he's doing while others contend he's clueless. If indeed he does know exactly what he's doing I would call that insane because siding with the Muslim Brotherhood will be perilous to both us and Israel.

I personally think he's also insane if he doesn't have a clue because of his actions and the lives involved but I guess that wouldn't make him clinically insane.

Obama Well Knows What Chaos He Has Unleashed