“BAAAAA!”
(“Jihadi Spring...manly, yes, but I like it too.”)
Posted on 09/01/2014 6:20:02 PM PDT by Rashputin
The Return of the Arab Spring
By Joe Herring & Dr. Mark Christian
The “Arab Spring” changed seasons with Benghazi. In the eyes of many Americans, the media-hyped chimera of democratic forces seeking freedom from dictatorships vanished with the reported sodomy and murder of our ambassador to Libya.
The reality is, the impetus behind the Arab Spring was never really a desire for self-rule as we understand it, but rather a desire for Islamic rule. Each country that fell to that faux-organic sweep of protest shared a trait in common: aside from being brutal dictatorships, they were also secular governments.
This essential point is missed by our major media, who, due to an irrepressible confirmation bias, assume that the only reason to upending a government is to throw off oppression. Their failure to factor the all-encompassing influence of Islam leads inexorably to an inability to comprehend the willingness among many in the Middle East to replace repressive secular regimes with far more repressive Islamist regimes. Surprising as it appears to the Western mind, this frying pan-to-fire behavior is de rigueur in societies that credit the legitimacy of their governments to the seal of approval of their god.
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history should show Obama as a bloodthirsty tyrant who forced his Arab Spring onto an unsuspecting Muslim countries causing the Muslim Brotherhood, AQ and other Islamic fanatics to take control of an Muslim world with secular governments, though oppressive to one degree or another, killing and dominating. Thanks to Obama’s strategy the world now is in great danger - especially the US and Western countries. Will he be exposed?
There were secular and democratic forces at work in the beginning of the Arab spring, but they are largely deceased now or in hiding.
Coming soon “Arab Spring II”. New. Improved. More death, beheadings, rape, plunder, slavery and the debauchery that you have come to expect from an Arab Spring. Yes, His Arrogance and Moo (the lunch Nazi) will be attending the opening performance in the State Department Crisis room.
This time with “African Spring” thrown in for good measure.
“BAAAAA!”
(“Jihadi Spring...manly, yes, but I like it too.”)
It’s really nutty how we now see John McCain on all the Sunday shows basically saying that Obama should bomb (and if necessary with “boots on the ground”) destroy ISIS, YET he and Obama were the ones just months ago lobbying our Congress to ARM the same “rebels” in Syria against Assad (who though a bad guy-at least protected Christians and did not want immediate war with Israel or the USA).
But the Realists(led by Bob Corker) began to shift so in the spring of 2013 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 to arm the Syrian Rebels. The 3 no votes came from the 2 antiwar dems and the isolationist Rand Paul.
Obama worked up a plan that was approved by a classified committee vote and implemented: CIA picks a rebel group, vets them, trains them, and gives them anti-tank weapons, but no anti-aircraft weapons.
Syrian rebels and NeoCons(led by McCain) complain the process is too slow and the rebels need the anti-aircraft weapons. Congress needs to appropriate more money. But the airliner gets shot down in Ukraine so they all shut up.
Meanwhile, the chem weapons came out in Syria and Obama says we need to bomb Assad, but he won't do it unless Congress approves. A political firestorm erupts in Congress because none of them want to put their name on it. Finally, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes on it and it passes but only on a 10-8 vote, too narrow.
Oslo Journal, Part VII
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391722/oslo-journal-part-vii-jay-nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger
Nov. 4 2014
yad El-Baghdadi, you have met. He’s the Palestinian who was kicked out of the UAE for his democratic agitation, mainly online. And he now gives a speech to the Freedom Forum crowd.
“Three and a half years ago, the Arab Spring generation opened its mouth to speak. But a thousand forces conspired to smother that voice.”
I am paraphrasing (as so often), but closely.
The Arab Spring was attacked, says El-Baghdadi, by a “counterrevolutionary axis.” (Nice phrase.) This axis was “more afraid of the Arab Spring than of a thousand terror groups.” The autocrats knew, says El-Baghdadi, that “democracy tickles the youth.”
He is still a believer in the Arab Spring — even after all the murder and misery and defeat. How can this be? How can he continue to believe? He is asked this a lot, he tells us. And he gives inquirers three reasons in response.
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