Not only is the Obama administration, as I’ve written for the last year, favoring radical Islamist forces — despite the fact that these are anti-Western, pro-terrorism, building dictatorships, and openly antisemitic and anti-Christian — but now even the establishment media is admitting it.
A friend of mine said, “Oh, they are probably saying that the Brotherhood is sounding radical publicly but privately reassuring U.S. officials that they are moderate.”
“No,” I replied. “That’s the old way of doing things when it was important to be, or at least to pretend to be, somewhat balanced. Now they say that the Brotherhood sounds moderate both publicly — ignoring all evidence to the contrary — and privately. Those who disagree are merely Republicans trying to defeat Obama in the election, and so should be ignored. The mass media today in such matters is worse than our worst nightmares of a decade ago.”
And so for the first time in U.S. history an American government, to the applause of the vast majority of the mass media, is backing an anti-American authoritarian movement. Here’s how the New York Times explains it:
The Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization [the Muslim Brotherhood] once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests.
Any serious foreign policy analyst should see three red flags in the above sentence.
First, of course the U.S. government must deal with Egypt’s government, but that doesn’t mean it should publicly proclaim that the Brotherhood is a nice group and give what amounts to an unconditional endorsement of it.
Indeed, the Obama administration and media are using a cheap trick. They confuse the proper, responsible policy of dealing with those in power while doing something quite beyond that: a self-destructive policy of rushing to insist that sworn enemies of freedom and the United States are really nice guys and there’s no problem with having them in power.
As I’ve written before, it’s possible to elect a dictatorship. The Egyptian people have a right to do so, but that doesn’t mean the West should like it.
Doesn’t anyone remember that the Obama administration has been apologizing for all the bad regimes America supported in the past? Now Obama is using the exact same argument: claiming that we must be nice to them because they are in power. What’s the difference between that and the historic relationship to the Mubarak regime? At least Mubarak supported U.S. interests. These people don’t. They have openly supported murdering Americans, especially in Iraq!
In 1979, an Islamist revolution occurred in Iran. The United States quickly recognized that new regime and tried to be buddies with it. We all know how that worked out.
Second, why should the burden of reversing “decades of mistrust and hostility” be exclusively on the United States? Doesn’t the Brotherhood, which benefits from U.S. engagement, need to do that also or even beforehand? Why is there no conditionality here, no hint that the Obama administration or New York Times understands how hostile the Brotherhood has been and continues to be? If the U.S. president won’t demand a quid pro quo (something in exchange for his concessions), who is going to look after U.S. interests?
Third, by saying the Brotherhood was “once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests,” the author suggests this is no longer true. We know that the Obama administration thinks the Brotherhood has changed. Yet there is no evidence in terms of deeds, ideology, or statement made in Arabic that the Brotherhood has done so.
Thus, Obama has given away all U.S. leverage and assets beforehand, just as he did by announcing a year ago, during the revolution’s opening days, that he would be happy to accept a Muslim Brotherhood government.
I don’t know why this should come as a surprise to anyone. The soundings from the Obama administration, cajoling the Islamists, has been going on from the beginning of his administration , even before the “Arab Spring.” Just look at Obama’s appointments to national security posts (John Brennan and Samantha Powers, his attempt to appoint Charles Freedman)and who Clinton has as her top aide, a woman with family ties to the MB. Plus the unreal attacks on Israel, trying to equate Israel with Islamists, as if to say “we deal with a “theocratic” Israel so why shouldn’t’ we deal with “theocratic” Arab states. Remember it was the Obama/Clinton State Department that listed Israel as religiously oppressive and Saudi Arabia as religiously “free.” Obama’s actions would be a really bad SNL skit (OK SNL skits are all pretty bad)if it wasn’t real life.
An old Soviet joke said that when Soviet citizens wanted to know the truth they would read Pravda, because they knew that whatever Pravda said – the truth was just the opposite, so they could stay informed by reading Pravda and inverting everything it said. This joke is becoming increasingly relevant to the Western left, including its media organs.
Yes, M.Patriot — true, true and true. Obama is and has not been “naive” or anything other than clearly “pro-Islam-ist, pro-Muslim Brotherhood” — it’s been so clear from … from day one. It’s been a continual cause of bewilderment and headache-ment that even some of the best writers/pundits/commenters have been so reluctant to see it.
Now — the new “thing” no one seems to notice (among many others) is that Obama is making massive sales of arms to Islamist states — under the guise that they need to protect themselves against Iran.
For a long, long time, we have refused to sell our excellent military technology to certain states — because, while not necessarily outright enemies, they are not allies — and with a slight change in circumstances (which occurs daily), they could be using that high technologically advanced military equipment against ourselves or one of our allies.
For a long, long time — we, the United States, have chosen to do the “protecting” — rather than sell the arms — for the above reason. It was costly in the short term, but much better in the long run. Costly, but better for us — and, actually, better for everyone (fewer, not none, but fewer, actual wars).
Now, our president — our president — is selling American built military equipment – jet fighters, etc., etc., to potential future enemies.
Is this action worth the “jobs” it will create and the $$ into U.S. coffers? Nah. I don’t think that’s the real motivation.
But what could be the motivation of such obviously — crystal clearly — terrible judgment? What could be the motivation?
The media says — “Nothing to see here.”
The public — those who haven’t time to spend hours doing their own research — who rely on the MSM for information (which they, if it were a sane world — ought to be able to do) — The public is being completely misinformed.
If they could just be led to judge the facts and reality —
The Democrats should run on the “Disempower and Impoverish America Now and in the Future” ticket.
Then there might be a fair chance that people will vote for what they really want. As it is, they are being completely deceived.
Instead of the History Channel doing endless programs about what will happen to the earth if (when) global warming destroys it and us — They ought to try — just at least once — to do a program of what it will be like here at home, and in the world, when the U.S.A. has no more economic, military or political power — and when, instead, Islamists and the Totalitarian Chinese are the only ones with and vying for power.
These arms sales are very very scary from an Israeli perspective. These states are not Israel’s potential enemies, but official enemies. And even if we’d say these regimes will only use them if necessary to defend against Iran, what if there’ll be a revolution? In the Saudi case they’ll most likely be replaced by something like Al Qaida. Good luck to all of us with that.
If it is not crystal clear now, our Muslim-in-Chief has been in bed with Islam since before his election. Our complicit media did not just cover up this fact but refused to vet this bum. If we, as Americans, had been well informed on Islam and its sordid past, we would be up in arms at this ‘partnering’ of our administration with Islam. They have nothing but ill will for the non-muslim world and will be attacking us as the leaders of the free world as soon as they feel strong enough. I, for one, do not want to be enslaved as a dhimmi, doing the will of muslim slavemasters.
It was obvious to me in the 2008 campaign that Obama was no friend of Israel. Anyone who read his Audacity of Hope and was alert would have caught the clue: see http://clarespark.com/2009/09/11/oil-politics-and-obamas-view-of-israeli-history/.
Dear Readers….for your ready reference, pasted here from Captain Google:
“1 The federal impeachment procedure 1.1 The House of Representatives
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Ditto:
Please impeach Obama,
let buckwheat live out his presidency at Gitmo,
this is where buckwheat belongs,
Buckwheat is a criminal,incarcerate him, protect the public from obama
lock him up,
Please lock him up forever!
Results of the Egyptian elections are in and if under Sharia Law the fat lady was allowed to sing in the streets of Cairo, she would be!
As everyone knew (except OBama and his Democrat lansman) the Islamists would be taking over the Egyptian government.
Read the story at The Political Commentator here: http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2012/01/egyptian-arab-spring-they-are-who-we.html
Why can’t people see “who” this guy really is. He’s part of a radical anti American group of leftists founded by Alasky and currently funded by Soros.
“Why can’t people see who this guy really is?”
Maybe they can’t see over the mountain of “free” stuff he gave them.
Barry Rubin provides valuable insight into what one day soon may be a major problem for the U.S., Israel and the free world. I agree that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a ‘moderate’ organization. Egypt will feel its grip in the near future. Tourism will be affected as Sharia law is gradually enforced with increasing strictness. And Israel’s treaty with Egypt will cease to bind the parties in peace.
Obama’s efforts to soothe Muslim sensibilities is leading his administration down a wayward path. Unfortunately, I don’t see Obama altering his position. A troublesome future lies ahead.
Even with a slight majority in Parliament, the MB isn’t going to amount to a dictatorship and I don’t understand why this is so often portrayed. It’s strange to see people acknowledge they were elected and then act as if that is utter power for the MB to simply do whatever they wish.
And then there is the army and their lucrative franchises which would be threatened which would include the bikini and beer beach resorts. Moderate or not, the MB is not going to be able to unilaterally impose their will and it should be added that even within the MB there is disagreement as to that will.
Bless your little heart! The MB is islamic jihadist and has made it plain that they intend to take over the world by whatever means necessary.That means that they are the Bad Guys. Ask a Big Person and perhaps he/she will ‘splain it all to you!
The Obama administration has begun to implement it’s 1930′s style of military disarmament, international isolation, and a willingness to ignore or deny the military aggression and diplomatic aggression of America’s enemies.
This is a direct outgrowth of Obama’s Democratic parties Leftist ideology which holds the US responsible for most of the world’s problems.
The Obama Doctrine has been and is becoming increasingly problematic. That is the Obama policy of betraying America’s allies and remaining harmful or even supportive of America’s enemies is starting to endanger even the US.
Excellent article. But although Obama’s support of the Brotherhood is only slightly harmful to the United States, it will be devastating to Israel.
Can you tell me why the vast majority of American Jews support Obama and will continue to support him during the next election?
it’s because they’re stupid, my fellow jews are, totally stupid
Anyone brainwashed ends up totally stupid. I had a friend who was born into a far left family. From what I gathered they weren’t extremely socialist, or at least the economy wasn’t the focus, but they were very anti-Israel. At one point, seeing what came out of the Oslo Peace War, it started a process whereby she became a moderate. But it wasn’t an easy process since she was brought up to believe leftists are morally and intelectually superior and everyone else is stupid, ignorant and evil, so it’s very difficult to cross that line. First you have to admit to yourself that something is wrong with your worldview. Then you have to change it, thereby also giving up your superiority fantasy. Then you might decide to tell your family and friends, which is like coming out of the closet for a gay person in a devout catholic family. They will treat you like a sinner and a stupid one at that. Today she’s 40 something and she says she was brainwashed. She compared changing her mind to getting a pair of eye glasses. At first you deny you have a problem. You try to adjust the distance of the newspaper from you eyes to make it fit your vision and convince yourself you’re seeing well. But it takes more and more effort and things still remain blurry. Only when you finally admit there’s a problem with your vision and get eye glasses to fix it everything becomes clear and you don’t need to adjust the newspaper anymore to make it fit your vision. For now the leftists are adjusting the newspaper to fit their vision, otherwise they will have to adjust their vision to fit the news, which might be unbearable.
Most American Jews are born to leftist families, grow up in a leftist social environment, and go to a leftist university (there are no other kinds of universities). The arguments on the other side don’t get half as much exposure, and if the other side is stupid, ignorant and evil why listen to their arguments anyway?
It might have to do with this silly idea of being Americans first and Jews second.
Bunk! If leftist jews put their Jewishness before their US citizenship they would support Israel, which they don’t.
you called this one right.
It’s more than slightly harmful to the US. First off the US has lost one of its two most important Arab allies. Second, any resulting instability in the Middle East will likely be bad for oil prices. Third, the Muslim Brotherhood threatens the rule of other US’ Arab allies, so by supporting this movement the US is signaling to all its Arab allies that it is no ally and can’t be trusted, and also that it’s really really dumb. That doesn’t give much incentive to your other Arab allies to cooperate with you at the same level they did before. The US, being a democracy, was always considered a somewhat unstable and unpredictable ally because different administrations have different foreign policies, but it never went as far as supporting so many of your enemies against so many of your allies. Alongside this backstabbing behavior, we also learned the American president doesn’t need the congress approval to go to, ahm, kinetic activity, so there are practically no constrains on his kinetic activities. And that the POTUS doesn’t even necessarily bother to check in advance if his kinetic activity doesn’t end up replacing a radical crazy anti-American dictator with an even more radical, crazy and anti-American regime. Since the POTOS doesn’t like your allies, wants to appease your haters, and doesn’t need the congress approval we don’t know against whom he might direct some kinetic activities next. It could be anyone.
And the worst part of it is that most Americans don’t seem bothered by it at all, or don’t understand it, so we can never know who the Americans might elect next. I mean, if the American people had been deceived by one presidential candidate and then were outraged by his behavior and determined to replace him in the end of his first term, then your allies might have been able to see it as a one-time mistake that won’t repeat itself. But the American people don’t seem to even get that the new American policy amounts to a major earthquake. Everything is changing in the Middle East now. Your president better be right that the Muslim Brotherhood will be your next best buddy because if it won’t, and if Obama is reelected, thereby alienating your remaining allies, it’ll mark the end of American influence in the region.
Ah, Pnina — You’re very correct, but it’ll be worse than just a loss of US influence in the region.
Yeah … if … the American people re-elect him. But there’s a very good chance they will.
That’s the job of the 4th Estate — and they have totally failed the people. My guess is that it’s the fault of the “journalism professors” neglecting to teach the vital importance of real objectivity in reporting — and actually instead promoting their own political (and completely mistaken) viewpoints. The Internet has brought some sanity, but it still doesn’t get to enough people.
If you mean Saudi Arabia, then there is no Arab ally of America, really.
Seems to me Obama’s been signaling America’s enemies, whoever and wherever they are, that he is in a unique position to be of significant help to them. They spit in his face anyway, as a matter of principle, despise him for the traitor he is to his own, but pocket everything he gives them gladly all the same, why not?
Like most American Jews are stupid, a majority of Americans in general are just as you describe them.
Although many disingenuously use the word “support” in regard to Obama and the MB, not one iota of evidence has been presented that the President or the Democratic Party actively support the MB. Instead “support” is parsed out to mean “useful idiots,” “unwitting,” “naive” and all the rest. If one has a point that is true and just there is no need to dress up a pig.
Where do I begin?
Obama invited memebers of the Muslim Brotherhood to his Cairo speech in June 2009, long before there were any signs of a revolution and the rise of the MB to power:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/-brotherhood-invited-to-obama-speech-by-us/18693/
You can’t say that at that time there was some diplomatic need to recognize and associate with this group that was formally banned in Egypt.
BTW, the revolution wasn’t a total surprise to the US as was portrayed in the media – the American government had supportive contacts with the revolutionaries (the April 6 Youth, not the MB, but it was made clear the MB is also on board) and there was a summit in New York of activists from different countries before the multiple Mid-East revolutions:
hxxp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289698/Egypt-protests-secret-US-document-discloses-support-for-protesters.html
The American governement shifted the traditional American policy of maintaining a distance from the MB to forming closer ties with them before the Egyptian elections:
hxxp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/us-usa-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE75T0GD20110630
The State Department helped political parties in Egypt prepare for the elections, including Islamist parties:
hxxp://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/03/state_department_training_islamic_political_parties_in_egypt
William Taylor, US’ special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, said that if the Muslim Brotherhood wins the elections the US would be satisfied:
hxxp://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=244427
He added that the parties in the Middle East will be judged based “on what they do, and not what they’re called”. How about judging them based on their ideology and statements? Political parties are not blank slates and their policies aren’t entirely unpredictable – sometimes they do what they say. People fear the Muslim Brotherhood not because they have the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘brotherhood’ in their name, but because of their ideology and statements (in Arabic). If they were called the Muslim Brotherhood and their ideology aspired for liberal democracy, freedom of religion, equal rights under the law for Muslims and non-Muslims, peaceful coexsistence with all their neighbors, and friendly relations with countries worldwide, including the West, people wouldn’t fear them.
With all due respect for the know how of Mr Barry Rubin i think he’s wrong or is afraid to face the fact that the Obama Administration is willfully engaging in this cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
How deep is this ‘admin’ infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood?
What exactly is the role and influence of Huma Abedin in the Hillary Clinton her Admin?
Why doesn’t anyone concentrate on Huma’s brother’s role and connection to Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi?
Quariawi who now suddenly is the go between between the Taliban and the Obama admin.
Does the word treason still excist in America?
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2011/06/dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma.html
Did you even bother to read Barry’s article?
Oddly, the real fight is being waged here in the U.S. by clueless morons like Soledad (the Racist Hunter) O’Brien and her stupid and non-existent “Islamophobia.” Such politically correct considerations within the American media considering the bald fact of 9/11 are extraordinary and seek to shut down debate by demonizing plain facts. It is then taken for granted in some circles that criticizing the MB is merely more “racism” from “racist” Americans.
It is a bad time in American history to have a President who sees the world through a racial lens that doles out innocence and morality by skin color. Thus Islam can occupy a role of freedom fighters where they don’t in fact fight for freedom and those who do are portrayed as racists. The MB wouldn’t fight for a U.S. style Constitution in a thousand years as they have no desire to ever have a Christian, woman or gay President if they have anything to say about it.
When President Obama became president, he returned the bust of Winston Churchill to Great Britain which had been given to then-President Bush on the occasion of 9/11, and he visited Saudi Arabia, from where the terrorists of 9/11 had come, and bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. How did the Democratic Party even nominate such a man for president? And why is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin, with family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Add to this list of President Obama’s support of Mohammedanism everywhere, his speech in Cairo. Why did he make a speech in Cairo?
We elected the president we deserve. God help us. We can’t afford to slam them and we can’t ignore them now. I can only think of a few ways to fix this mess, domestically. Internationally well we have seen what happens when you meddle in the affairs of other states, you create the things you fear.
Well, at least we can take some cold comfort in the fact that the administration is relying on John Kerry, AKA “The Worthless Tw@t” to help their little plan along. Everything he touches turns to crap, so maybe the Admin will be stymied….
By their words, the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate to the US and violent to Israel. They have also renounced the use of violence inside of Egypt; although that will be ended once they have state power and are in charge of the police.
If you can’t go in and overthrow the pigs, you have to be diplomatic. If you are going to go in and overthrow the pigs, you have to be diplomatic to lull them to sleep.
But I’m sure the military could have been persuaded to keep the MB out of power. The US could “Protest” but keep the aid flowing. That’s what I would have done. Maybe the Egyptian military wasn’t up to it?
Well, it’s a pretty big leap from having a slim majority in parliament to having state power and control of the police. Mind telling us just a teeny weeny bit about the in between and how the army disappeared or were overwhelmed?
Let me guess: Iran, 1979.
obama…………… my best friend’s sister-in-law makes $81 an hour on the computer. She has been fired for 9 months but last month her income was $8170 just working on the computer for a few hours. Here’s the site to read more… m a k e c a s h 4 . com
First Amendment. If this isn’t the measure for our “support” of any regime then we really have met the enemy and it really is us. Trade all you want. Aid, of any kind, not at all unless the belly up to the freedom bar.
The Moslem Brotherhood is the modern day Islamic Nazi Party.
As is Hamas.
In a clearer day we would have the clarity to say “you wish us dead?, that is your right, when you say “surrender” we shall cease destroying you.
Engage Nazis? Hold respectful talks? Be respectful to them?
Nonsense. But a bounty on their asses.
I suggest 500 bucks for any Hamas or Moslem Brotherhood member dead or alive.
Now dont get me wrong, until I see their white flag a waving and them a crawling on their bellies?
No AID, No assistance, No mercy, No quarter.
Did I come across to strong?
If I did I am so sorry.
How about this “Death to the Moslem Brotherhood, Death to Hamas, Death to the Mullahs that advocate death to the USA and Israel”
Is that more loving and PC?
I guess it aint…
OK, How about this?
Dear Moslem Brotherhood, Hamas and others that share their Jihadists insanity,
I wish you to live and prosper far away from us.
If you continue to fund, train and support terrorists that come to our shores and murder our or our friends children we will erase your sorry punk asses from the planet…
Is that better?
When Egypt and Israel go to war, which must eventually occur in order to employ millions of jobless Egyptian men, it is unclear whether the US would support Israel or Egypt. In fact, a Triple Alliance of Egypt, Turkey, and Iran is not unthinkable, with official US neutrality, should be occupying the thoughts of Israeli military planners
If half of all Egyptian men are illiterate, of what use would they be in modern warfare? And the idea of a triumvirate of Iran, Turkey and Egypt is unthinkable. Why in the world would Turkey risk its position in Europe, and Egypt its prominence in the Arab world for Turks? And why would either of them ally themselves with Shi’ites who disown Sunni Islam? Add to that an utter inability to combine disparate weapons systems. If war comes to this area, it’ll be the U.S. and Israel calling the shots and not decrepit nations using the fumes of former empire to try and fuel operations, logistics, materiel, strategy and tactics.
This idea that the simple answer is that Islamic states are so stupid and suicidal that they don’t think of risk/reward is not persuasive. There is political gain for an Islamic regime to discomfit Israel but in real terms the dissolution of Israel would not change a single thing in the Middle East and Islam knows it. They also know it would amount to a kind of suicide to attempt it.
In line with Obama’s ’09 speech in Egypt,["just call me Hussien"]this is or was predictable. Recall after the attempted airliner bombing over Detroit this administration and Obama could hardly use the word muslim. Really no surprise, it’s where his heart is and Normal People haveknown it for a while, as well as plenty on this fine site. The bizarre part is why so many, almost all, in the media go along with it, the writing on the wall being plain. Granted they’re trash, but even so does being Democrat mean that much to these ignorant degenerates?
Yeah, I’m sure Obama and company will enforce the Egyptian Israel peace treaty when the Muslim Brothers’ tear it up; yeah, I can just see the Egyptians giving back the Sinai to Israel. I can just see the democrats foreign policy slogan justifying the American intervention to give the Sinai back to Israel: No peace, no justice, no land. And of course, everything is on the table when it comes to Iran and nuclear proliferation. We have our red lines, lines that only apply to domestic banks providing sub-prime loans to the brothers.
In many ways Obama has been blocked. What was the greatest fear? He would make a Grand Bargain with Iran. That he would leave Afghanistan to the Taliban. He could have left Gaddafi alone and been silent over Assad.
I’m not saying Obama is brilliant, but he hasn’t completely gone off the reservation. What many are angry about here is how Obama who would not find support for embracing the Muslim Brotherhood by simply declaring it aloud, nor support for Islamists in Syria or Libya, shook the pin ball machine and helped cause a “tilt” to American foreign policy. Such “tilts” play to chaos and domestically have enabled Obama to blame the economy for the decline of defense spending.
So Obama saw the criticism even while running for office and like his rather “clean” time in Chicago, is a master of deflection to reach policy goals. He will point to OBL and Libya, but the real damage being done is happening on a deeper level. This is in large part helped by poor signals, absurd assumptions and a weak economy worsened by the ideology driving Obama’s economic team.
We all saw Obama gesture to Chavez. Only now as election comes and this attitude has been a joke, does he get angry: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/09/2581605/iran-venezuela-call-us-a-global.html
I’m getting the feeling there is a Wag the Dog coming our way. I am amazed that Obama did not have to reach even the bar Bush did in moving militarily. It is shocking Americans watch as sacrifice in Iraq is threatened (By AQ and Iran). By now McCain would have been blasted over the economic climate if his results were the same. We have Raptors grounded, F-35s a joke and the Navy and Air Force Obama has bungled are now the back-bone of his leaner military.
How much crap can the public take? As much as the crap Media turns into reasonable.
Nothing was said by the administration over serious claims the Muslim Brotherhood delivered Grads on jeeps from Libya to Gaza. Very little is being reported about the 38th Syrian Brigade that mutinied. No troops in Libya has led to thousands of weapons loose and Assad has so many more.
Troop cut? So we CAN’T intervene anymore. Tough on China? Just look at Huntsman’s Mandarin answer to Romney. After all, he served in China.
So this web of chaos runs pretty deep. If one stays just at the surface level, Obama hasn’t done that poorly so far, but if you examine the deeper levels and where this mess in the ME is headed, his subtle and not so subtle nudges and signals, gestures and questionable threats do not look promising.
I do think he fears the judgment of history, but if he can’t win another term, he’ll blame incompleteness. If he wins, I don’t expect he can reverse what he has already helped to bring about. The Muslim Brotherhood is big trouble. Afghanistan and Pakistan are even more serious threats. Assad will not go quietly likely sitting in the mountains between Latikia and Tartus. Iran will advance their bomb. Erdogan is a tug with a broken rudder. His FM needs a therapist.
Vacuums love chaos…and as Obama might think.
Chaos is fair….
Well, that’s true if you’re the Joker.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
- Omar Ahmad, chairman and co-founder of CAIR – 1998
Muslim Brotherhood manifesto:
4- Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in 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 and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
Muslims are our enemy,
nuke them,
never trust them, remember 9/11
obama is a filthy muslim,
Pnina, thank you for your valuable insights and links. Barry Rubin’s article should be in the MSM, and what we are facing beside the obvious ME debacle, to any thinking informed person, is the abject failure to inform the public. However, we face within this country such a divide based on ideology, that rational debate almost has no room to exist. Many Americans suffer a sort of blindness to the consequences of progressive/socialist/Marxist thought. Mere adherence to “progressivism” is to reject the past and deny the lessons of history. History doesn’t hold any weight because “we’ve moved beyond that, and are more advanced and trying something new,” seems to be the credo. Relying on that naiveté has left plenty of room for corrupt forces to maneuver. And that they have done. I trust in those that know better, refuse to be brainwashed, understand the value of knowledge, and exercise their First Amendment right to speak up. Intellectual honesty, self reliance, and standing for moral, ethical and informed principals transcend ideological bilge, hopefully in the long run.
The obama administration is morally and politically bankrupt. Its policies are appeasement on steroids. Its intent is no different than trying to cultivate good relationships with nazis and communists. islamists are no different and are, if anything, a bigger threat to democracy than their totalitarian cousins. They seek to destroy democracy, western civilization, and human dignity. They must be resisted and there is no good reason for a free society to tolerate doctrines that want to end freedom. Justice Robert Jackson said many years ago that the Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact. There cannot be accommodation with or concessions to evil.
John Kerry is driven, by his own self-conception, to make himself relevant.
He made the North Vietnamese “Hall of Fame,” now his goal is the “Muslim Brotherhood Hall of Fame.”
If there’s a Chavez or Castro “Hall,” Kerry will be there vying for recognition.
The voters of MA no longer surprise me, in the past they have. Since MA was the scene of the first American battle against the occupation army of King George III, I had always concluded that the state of MA was a bastion of liberty.
IT WAS!
Today,it’s the bastion of Socialism and other worse agendas of the Left.
common sense—it doesn’t do any good to point fingers and name call or simply respond in this forum or one like it. what we need to do is to figure out a way to get the truth to the people who will vote. i haven’t a clue how to begin, but i do know that if each person can open the eyes of just one other person—it is a start!
i am not politically savvy, but even i know that if obama is reelected, the world will be so much the worse for it.
—-HE IS DANGEROUS!!!!!—
why do so few people understand that?
WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP HIM?????????
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN: No, no, no my dear Mr Western-Type and/or Jewish man! I’m not going to shoot you or terrorise you or something awful like that! I’m a Moderate!
GULLIBLE WESTERN &/or JEWISH GUY: You mean, you DON’T want to shoot me or kill me or attack me with horrible bombs and guns!?!
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN: Goodness gracious me, no! What do you think we are, barbarians!? We only want to encourage free debate in universities and media throughout your countries. In time, everyone will see how fatuous your culture is; How directionless and cowardly your leaders are; How unjustifiably angry, vulgar and vain those magazines and movies have made your women to be; How gormless and insipid your men have become by decades of feminism and misandry; How consumerism and postmodernist relativistic ethics have made your children irresponsible and self-indulgent…
My, my! We don’t need to attack you with bullets and bombs!
Words are much more powerful.
With no faith in your culture and utter distrust of all your leaders and insitutions, why…! The very fabric of your entire nation will fall apart within two or three generations.
GULLIBLE WESTERN &/or JEWISH GUY: But.. but… can’t we all just be nice and get along and … you know… tolerate each other… and see the other guy’s opinion and…
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN: What the hell makes you think a totally emasculated culture like yours has anything to offer mine? The future is Islam!
The New York Times has never met an anti-American movement it has not supported. During the Soviet era, the New York Times Style Book (the policy manual for its writers) stated: “It is not the policy of the New York Times to criticize the Soviet Union.” The Times went on to enthusiastically support the anti-Vietnam-war protestors and to consistently portray the United States as the “bad guys.” It has done so, at every opportunity, ever since. This latest
is hardly surprising, just sad.
Impeach Obama.
Imprison Holder and H. Clinton (who voted for US disarmament recently in the UN).
Elect Ron Paul.
Withdraw our financial and military support from current “entangling alliances.”
Keep our money here at home, develop our own energy and food supplies, etc..
Refuse to deal with inhumane countries; stop giving them arms and technology (per Dennis Prager today, Russians and Chinese are in Las Vegas this week soaking up our newest technological innovations at big conference there).
Common sense, people. Stand up and just say No.
RPaul simplified.
Proof that Educated, Classless People Can Become President
Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t stipulate that a president has to give a damn for and understand his country, be honest with voters, or have more class than an Occupy Wall Streeter.
College and law school grad, Chicago community organizer, absentee Illinois state senator, constitutional scholar, brief United States senator, current commander-in-chief of our armed forces, and leader of the Free World, Barack Hussein Obama, is devoid of any of those attributes.
He has been acclaimed as the most brilliant chief executive to ever establish residence in the White House despite the fact he is frequently reduced to a gaffe-prone, inarticulate gasbag when his trusty teleprompters aren’t around and he considers it panache to discuss dog droppings.
Go figure.
President George W. Bush was also known to put his foot in his mouth and his “Bushisms” are still lame comic fodder for Leno and Letterman but Bush’s gaffes don’t compare with Obama’s.
Leno, Letterman, and their liberal coterie dare not ridicule The Anointed One, the man Michelle Malkin aptly labeled “the Gaffe Machine” and whose mainstream media customarily ignores or soon buries Obama’s factual mistakes, dumb solecisms, and expressions of outright ignorance.
The president’s frequent excursions into foolery and foolishness have often been documented here and in the rest of the conservative blogosphere even if the MSM pretends they never happened.
There is no need to elaborate on Obama’s 57 states, his reference to “corpsemen,” his inability to speak Austrian, his confusing Jews with janitors and living versus dead Medal of Honors winners, his “intellectual stammering,” or the whole host of his other foul-ups.
They have become the stuff of legend, legendary gaffery which future liberal historians will someday discover and dismiss as vile, misleading partisan claptrap just as Mrs. Obama has dismissed the unflattering revelations of Jodi Kantor in The Obamas.
Two new examples of “misleading partisan claptrap” have recently emerged.
Neither is of monumental significance in the greater scheme of presidential politics although both provide great insight into our beloved leader.
One reveals a heretofore-unknown and shocking facet of Barack Obama’s life, the other displays what most Obamian critics have long known–that he sorely lacks both discretion and class.
The American public has been misled as to the extent of the Obama family. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12142.)
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“By, of and for the people” …. “… with liberty and justice for all”…
NOT just the white Republicans & their sheeple…. I KNOW that angers Republicans…. but the USA is NOT just their Country…. try as hard as
they have to steal it all for themselves.
What’s up, how’s it going? Just shared this post with a colleague, we had a good laugh.