| John Bolton: Egyptian Democracy May Be Bad News Forwarded with commentary by Emanuel A. Winston, Freeman Center Mid East Analyst & Commentator Democracy is a good thing when it evolves with the people accepting the real life ways of a democratic state. When predators use the fairness of democracy from within to create laws that benefit themselves, then democracy is turned on itself. Islam, in its many forms cannot ever be a democracy because its life blood is domination, war, forced conversion and certainly killing their women (wives, daughters) for honor or what passes for honor in a primitive culture that wishes to be regarded as superior to all others. Perhaps we have forgotten other cultures who wished to enslave their world. They are now gone: Genghis Khan, Rome of the Caesars, Hitler of the Third Reich, Turkey of the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire where the sun never set. Now a people who have contributed nothing to civilization – (except the “zero”) – has arisen like entitled conquerors of the past, demanding honor, recognition and submission by all others. (Islam means “submission”). Can democracy in our time, unwilling to face the savagery of Islam, possibly survive -within the evolved rules of actual civilized behavior called “Democracy”? I suppose we may see a book sometimes soon in the future entitled: “The Rise and Fall of the Once Democratic Free West.” COMMENTARY BY EMANUEL A. WINSTON ###John Bolton: Egyptian Democracy May Be Bad NewsWASHINGTON - Former U.S. ambassador John Bolton said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday that Americans should be wary of the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, arguing that it could lead to the country falling in the hands of anti-American Muslim extremists. It is the "responsibility of our government to protect our interests and our values and our friends and our allies," Bolton said. Referencing former President Theodore Roosevelt, he added that "first and foremost we must make the world safe for ourselves."Mubarak's fall may end up making America less safe, Bolton said, because in a democracy a radical group like the Muslim Brotherhood may end up in power. He warned of the threat of "rising radicalism in the Middle East" and said Sharia law could soon be imposed on Egypt's citizenry. "We have to have a careful and prudent approach to these developments, because we've seen revolutionary situations go wrong too many times before," said Bolton, pointing to the Nazis, Hamas and Hezbollah. Bolton, who is considering a GOP presidential run, said that democracy is "a way of life," not simply a political system. "We have to acknowledge that a Democratic election can produce illiberal results," he said. The former ambassador argued that allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in Egyptian elections is putting the country on the "road to disaster," and suggested the Obama administration has been "hesitant, inconsistent, confused and just plain wrong" in its handling of the situation in Egypt. To a standing ovation from the conservative activists gathered for the conference, Bolton described President Obama as "weak, indecisive and apologetic." Bolton said he does not believe Mr. Obama cares about foreign policy because it gets in the way of his priority of "nationalizing our health care system." He attacked the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, for suggesting the Muslim Brotherhood is a largely secular organization, saying the reason he opposes Clapper's resignation is because "in this administration, we could get somebody worse to replace him." Bolton also attacked the administration for its handling of Russia and its passage of the New Start missile treaty. John Bolton answers questions from reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Feb. 12, 2011. |
Thursday, 17 February 2011
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