Posted on 10/19/2018 3:41:17 PM PDT by detective
During the Obama presidency, the U.S. administration was wary of the Muslim Brotherhood, which had come to power in Egypt after the countrys first-ever free elections. Despite his declared support for democracy and change in the Arab world in the wake of the Arab Spring, then-President Barack Obama did not take a strong position and reject the coup against President-elect Mohamed Morsi. The coup, as we know, led to the militarys return to power in the largest Arab country along with tyranny, repression, corruption and mismanagement.
That is the conclusion that David D. Kirkpatrick arrives at in his excellent book Into the Hands of the Soldiers, which was released this month. A former Cairo bureau chief for the New York Times, Kirkpatrick gives a sad account of Egypts 2013 coup that led to the loss of a great opportunity to reform the entire Arab world and allow a historic change that might have freed the region from a thousand years of tyranny.
The United Statess aversion to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is more apparent in the current Trump administration, is the root of a predicament across the entire Arab world. The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes. In turn, this will mean the continuation of the causes behind revolution, extremism and refugees all of which have affected the security of Europe and the rest of the world. Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.
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Don’t forget that the Muslim Brotherhood’s temporary takeover of Egypt was a project that combined GOOGLE, Bill Ayers, the UK’s pro-Arafat twit “Gorgeous George,” Iran’s favorite UN arms inspector who also wanted to be Egypt’s next president, the western media - [one of whom was raped in the process] and some Republican group whose staff was detained by al Sisi after the Morsi gambit failed [at the expense of the Copts, whose churches the Muslim Bro attacked and burned.]
LIEberal Demonrats, for instance?
There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.So all Arab countries are endemically glued to, and must bow to, political Islam? Arabs of other religions are instantaneously marginalized?
I think he was turned into a Turkey sandwich....
Could be worse. Could have been a tongue sandwich. Oh wait, they did make him head cheese.... (I really dont have enough sympathy do I?)
I cant get over how KFI AM news yesterday called him American journalist.
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