Just a few weeks ago Defense Department Secretary Leon Panetta was in Cairo saying that Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, was “his own man” and that Morsi was committed to democratic reforms.
The crushing reality displayed in the weeks since Panetta’s praise of Morsi puts the lie to the Obama administration’s catastrophic foreign policy hinged on the Muslim Brotherhood’s supposed “moderation”.
Just two days after Panetta’s appearance with the Egyptian president, Morsi announced his cabinet that included three Islamists, including one appointed to the sensitive post of education minister. One of his Islamist allies was appointed the sole vice president, breaking Morsi’s promise prior to the election that he would appoint a Christian and a woman to vice president positions.
Leaders of the Christian community immediately denounced the appointments, with only a solitary Christian Copt to receiving one of the 35 ministry appointments to represent that minority community that comprises ten percent of the Egyptian population.
Then on August 12th, Morsi surprised the world (no doubt including Panetta and State Department Secretary Hillary Clinton) by unilaterally firing Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi and the head of the Egyptian armed forces (the only check on Morsi’s power), cancelling addenda to the provisional constitution that had limited the presidents power (and that he was elected under), and establishing new presidential powers, which were roundly denounced by Egyptian constitutional experts from all quarters as powers that rested solely with the parliament.
Then this past Saturday Morsi’s prime minister announced that the drafting of the new constitution would be completed by the end of September – even before a new parliament can be seated to help shape and define the new constitution. Members of the committee drafting the constitution have openly complained that the Muslim Brotherhood majority faction of the 100-member drafting committee were monopolizing the process and working to increase the role of Islamic law over the Egyptian people.
And then yesterday Morsi announced his new team of presidential assistants and advisers, with many of the positions going to Muslim Brotherhood members, the even-more hardline Islamist Al-Nour Party, and “independents” aligned with the Islamists.
So the overwhelming evidence shows that contrary to Panetta, Morsi is not his own man as seen in virtually every decision he has made since the Defense Secretary’s pronouncement in Cairo just a few weeks ago, showing that Panetta is either a liar or a fool. Or possibly both.
Much as it did with Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, no matter how much the political and media establishment wants to paint the Muslim Brotherhood and “moderate” and “democratic”, it will never make them so.
So much for ‘two steps forward, one step back’. These guys are going full tilt toward confrontation with Israel, the West, and the rest of the civilized world.
Leon Panetta is a big surprise here with his public statements which obviously raise eyebrows.
Why? Because Leon Panetta is a long, long, long time Washington surviving “insider” who has probably forgotten more “deals” than most of the other “survivors” of Washington politics.
Something within me says that these seemingly off-the-mark comments may be a disguise for what he’s saying behind closed doors.
Let’s not take what the media say about Leon Panetta too seriously. He’s nobody’s fool.
If he truly is ‘his own man’, and is not simply carrying water for this embarrassingly incompetent administration, then why does he continue to make these glaringly ignorant comments? I cannot believe that he is actually that stupid, so the answer is probably that he is being a good little democrat and supporting our man-child president as he repeats the mistakes of historical appeasers past such as Chamberlain in 1939-1940.
Recent events (mooslimification of our government – 2 hours of moonbat prayer prior to the DNC opening is the latest development) suggest that our American Ayatollah may be fully aware of Morsi’s mooslim bruthahood affiliation and their true intent to subjugate the Middle East with sharia law and include designs for a world-wide caliphate (like a big moonbat ‘love in’ except then they would stone the women and children for fornication). If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….its probably a damn duck – Boys and girls…if you do not believe that barak hussein obama is a moonbat muslim to one degree or another, you are either blind, ignorant, or both.