A Comment About

Egypt: Three Possible Outcomes

January 29, 2011 - 3:29 pm - by Barry Rubin
DavidMac
2011-01-30 05:30:41

I agree. Obama, though, truly believes he is the erudite intellectual and will back the overthrow of Mubarak. That will, of course, create a political vacuum and the Muslim Brotherhood (backed by Iran) will step in (IF the army allows it). After that, the purges/executions start and the new Egyptian government will blame Israel and the USA for all the trouble.

Obama and Clinton are died-in-the-wool leftists and only see utopian sugarplums dancing in their heads. They see a populist uprising and (because they are not realists) think everything will be peaceful when the people take over.