Posted on 09/16/2012 12:08:00 AM PDT by mojito
Ungovernable?
I think the government is Egypt is doing exactly what its citizens want.
“After 60 years of feckless military rule, Egypt's economy simply can't get there from here. The country imports half its caloric consumption, although three-fifths of its people are engaged in agriculture. Its university system can't train a competent civil engineer (President Morsi, like almost all of Egypt's prominent engineers, studied abroad). Forty-five percent of its people are functionally illiterate. Nine-tenths of its women suffer genital mutilation, and nearly a third of Egyptians marry cousins.”
Sounds like another Islamic success story.
This makes no sense, Egypt is being governed exactly as it is intended to be governed, these are islamist after all.
Winston says it all in this quote made more than a century ago.
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the infence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
/johnny
If you have a whip, a kitten can pull a plow.
Egypt is in for a hard time, they will live or they will die.
/johnny
BTTT
The economic collapse under these incompetent Islamic governments will enrage the mob. The new leaders will focus the rage of the mob on the usual suspects (Israel and America-West). These nations are going into perpetual riot because they have pretty much destroyed their credit and they are burning up their cash reserves. The behavior we are witnessing now will make it far more difficult for them to obtain “loans” from the world. There is no investment in these nations either foreign or domestic. There is not enough remaining economic activity in the majority of these nations to provide enough revenue for the governments to fund the welfare of the citizens.
They are on borrowed time and know it - this is why war is coming. I really don’t see how it will be avoided. Egypt is in really bad shape right now and the Muslim Brotherhood miscalculated by winning the election. It’s easier to critique from outside the government than it is to be responsible. Our betrayal of the Egyptian military was just as stupid and wrong as our betrayal of the previous regime. The previous regime locked up more jihad johnnies each year than we kill. Those radical inmates have been released into Egyptian society like a bucket of flaming kerosene. Obama built this and betrayed an imperfect man who had kept peace in the most populous Muslim nation and honored his treaties.
IMHO, it needs another “rinse cycle”.
From the article....
“Even Islamists have to eat. Some senior Israeli policy analysts believe that Morsi will do everything possible to distract the Egyptian people from the growing misery of their material circumstances. Morsi may attempt to justify an Egyptian annexation of oil-rich Libya, and might fight Sudan for control of the Nile’s limited water supply. And he may encourage Islamist extremists to vent their frustrations against the United States.”
I’m beginning to wonder whether the protests were planned and staged by Morsi to:
1. distract the population from their misery
2. deflect criticism of himself and the brothers to the US and the west
3. blackmail the US and the west into giving him more foreign aid
My guess is we’re being played like fools.
If you want free food and oil then you will have to join the DNC Brotherhood or starve.
An amazing article on scanning - will read it properly tomorrow. Thank you for posting it.
If you want free food and oil then you will have to join the DNC Brotherhood or starve.
Yep. Morsi is not too smart though... he is finding out that leading and governing is far more difficult than agitating. He made his career on tearing down the man who now faces him in the mirror.
Well, Mubarek seemed able to govern it. Until, of course he was undermined by his “allies”.
Now why does that sound familiar??
Throw a couple of billion their way.
They'll burn our embassy when they're ready for a couple of billion more.
The mid-east Muslims have virtually all proven they’re incapable of governing themselves. They’re too stupid to govern themselves but still dangerous because any lunatic idiot. can set off a bomb. Forty-five percetn illiteracy and 1/3 marrying their cousins says it all about their intelligence. These countries should be cordoned and no one allowed to leave except Coptic Christians and the like.
Not every Muslim is a violent idiot, but Islam appeals to the stupidest most violent peoples of the world.
Now the ‘west’ must decide if they will be ally or foe to a terrorist state.
We had the same issue when the Palestinians chose Hamas.
You see, this is why I reject the ‘extremist’ lie from our government. This is why I reject the statements that these factions are uncontrolled. These foot soldiers, these islamic militias are extensions of the islamic government.
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