Sunday, August 18, 2013
Now is the Time to Increase Aid to Egypt
EDITORIAL
The bipartisan U.S. drive to suspend and/or reduce or even eliminate aid to Egypt's popular interim government is illogical and contrary to the national interest of the United States and the security of its most important Middle Eastern allies--Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia--all of which strongly oppose suspension of U.S. aid to Egypt.
The choice in Egypt, plainly put, is between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. The military is supported by an overwhelming majority of Egyptians, including practically all secular Muslims and Christians. The Muslim Brotherhood is supported by Islamists, including Al Qaeda and its affiliates and sympathizers.
The cynical strategy of trying to ride the Muslim Brotherhood/Islamist tiger without being eaten, dating to the 1950s, when the Eisenhower administration covertly backed the Muslim Brotherhood against the Nasser regime, is bound to fail. In this regard, the catastrophic blowback from the Carter administration's craven betrayal and abandonment of Iran's Shah, a pro-Western, modernizing monarch, should guide Washington's thinking and policymaking.
That and the suicidal idiocy of the unnecessary "humanitarian intervention" in Libya and the incredibly stupid stirring up of an Islamist insurrection in Syria in order to counter Iran and Hezbollah. Islamism is clerical fascism--a menace to civilized humanity. There is no such thing as moderate Islamism, just as there was no such thing as moderate Nazism. The antidote for the deadly poison of Shiite Islamism isn't another deadly poison--Sunni Islamism--regardless of how it is labeled or who is peddling or administering it. Poison is poison. It must not be swallowed.
Egyptis' secular Muslims and Christians have voted--in the streets--for their interim government. Washington should stand with them in their hour of need and national emergency.
Copyright © 2013 Foreign Confidential
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Egyptian Socialist Party Backs Ban of Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt's Socialist Popular Alliance Party is urging the country's interim government to ban the clerical fascist Muslim Brotherhood.
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Egypt Blasts Biased Foreign Press Coverage of Islamist Revolt
Egypt's information agency, echoing the mood of millions of Egyptians, has condemned the blatant pro-Islamist slant of foreign press coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood's uprising.
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In related news, the EU is making utterances clearly aimed at supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies. Craven European politicians are in a panic over events in Egypt as their policy has been to appease and collaborate with (engage) the MB.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
US Desperately Tried to Save Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Eleventh hour attempts by the Obama administration and its Republican supporters to save the Islamist cause in Egypt failed miserably.
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In related news, Egypt's interim government, which is overwhelmingly supported by the Egyptian people, is considering legal prohibition of the Muslim Brotherhood. Click here for the story.
Banning the MB is a most positive, long overdue development. As the fountainhead of Islamic extremism and clerical fascism, the MB spawned Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
The MB's fascist roots should be recalled. In order to support Nazi Germany during World War II, the MB organized an intelligence agency and a terrorist group, called the Secret Apparatus. The Secret Apparatus was never really dismantled; in fact, it tried to assassinate Egypt's iconic president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and has been tied to the assassination of the country's pro-Western, peacemaking president, Anwar Sadat.
Foreign Confidential intelligence experts say the Secret Apparatus is leading the Islamist insurrection that today threatens to plunge Egypt into an abyss of anarchy and endless chaos.
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