Friday, January 28, 2011
MUBARAK RESISTS US PRESSURE, PROMISING REFORM BUT REFUSING TO ALLOW ANARCHY
CLINTON CONDEMNS EGYPT POLICE VIOLENCE
EGYPT EXPLODES; IRAN CHEERS
Egypt on Edge as Muslim Brotherhood and Iran Plot and Plan Islamist Revolution in Tunisia's Wake
Saudis, Syria Secretly Terrified by Arab Revolt
S. Korean Officials Clash Over N. Korea
China Promises Continued Currency Reform
Global Warming Litigation Heats Up as US Freezes
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Ex-CIA Spy Echoes China Confidential: Obama's Iran Policy Fails to Stop Atomic Ayatollah's Advance
China Fascinated by Jews, Judaism, Israel
HEZBOLLAH TRAINING HAMAS IN GAZA
EGYPT ARRESTS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADERS
Will Obama Lose Egypt the Way Carter Lost Iran?
Saturday, 29 January 2011
EGYPTIAN ALLY WON'T CAPITULATE
Related: Ex-CIA officer Michael Scheuer, who led the agency's Osama Bin Laden unit, tells The Washington Post:
"The agency's work is pretty much over, as no part of the U.S. government can do much to influence the situation, unless [Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton makes things worse by continuing to speak as if we are supporting the demonstrators.
"Ditto for Yemen.
"I would think that all of our officers across the Near East are spending a good amount of time on the streets trying to gauge the public mood and [assess] the chances of any more dominoes.
"For myself, I hope that each [CIA chief of station] and/or the ambassador are writing commentaries for Washington to disabuse them of the idea that any of this unrest is going to lead to secular democracies in the region. We are either going to get either more ruthless dictatorships or--if they fall--a year or two of chaotic governments with patinas of democracy' until the Islamists take over."
Also related:
PREPARED STATEMENT SEEMS TO SIDE WITH DEMONSTRATORS
AGAINST GOVERNMENT, CALLING FOR RESTRAINT AND REFORM
SAYS US UNDERSTANDS 'DEEP GRIEVANCES' DRIVING DEMONSTRATIONS
China Confidential said--in June 2009--that Obama's overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood were undermining Mubarak's government in ways that recalled Jimmy Carter's craven abandonment of an American ally. Click here to read the archived analysis.
Click here for a must-read analysis as Egypt's fateful day dawns.
Predictions: (1) liberal idiots of appeasement, confusing the trappings of parliamentary democracy with real democracy, will increasingly make the case for oxymoronic, "moderate" or "progressive" Islamism, praising pro-Iran, Islamizing Turkey as a model for Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen; (2) it is only a matter of time (hours maybe) before Islamist supporters, sympathizers, and apologists blame U.S. foreign policy--meaning, traditional U.S. support for democratic Israel and for pro-Western Middle Eastern regimes--for the current crisis; (3) any attempts to draw a logical line, from the Carter administration's complicity in the overthrow of Iran's Shah--a modernizing, pro-Western monarch--to the Obama administration's emboldening of the Muslim Brotherhood and the ensuing Egyptian eruption, will be roundly condemned or completely ignored by U.S. mainstream media outlets.
Regarding Israel, the administration can be counted on to use the crisis--i.e. the threat of Islamist takeovers of Egypt and Jordan, which are formally at peace with Israel--as a club for intimidating the Jewish State into withdrawing to indefensible borders in order to make possible the creation of a Palestinian state consisting of Gaza, already under Iran-backed Islamist rule, and the disputed lands of the so-called West Bank (areas west of the Jordan river that Israel captured during its defensive war of June, 1967). In the White House and in the State Department ... and in the news rooms and editorial offices of the fawning liberal media ... there will be linkage!You can bet on that.
Related:
"Cautious" yuan liberalization and increased imports--China's Commerce Minister speaks at Davos--over here.
Click here for the story. If only the fascination would translate into teaming with Israel and the United States to stop Islamist Iran from acquiring atomic arms....
Will the US Abandon Mubarak in an Attempt to
Jump Aboard Muslim Brotherhood Bandwagon?
Regime Appeals for US Help
as Egypt's Fateful Day Nears
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