[ April 22, 2024 ]
Check out my latest analysis of the seismic shift in the Middle East:
Obama's Carter Moment Pamela Geller, Big Government.
Story continues below advertisementIn stark, bitter contrast to his indifference to the popular Iranian uprising in the summer of 2009, Barack Obama has almost immediately engaged in events on the ground in Egypt, and it’s not good. Obama took no such action with Iran — a jihadist terrorist state agitating in countries all over the world. That was an historic missed opportunity.
In 2009, his silence about the “You’re Either With Us or With Them.”
And since then also, Obama’s most consistent response to Iran (as well as to North Korea’s hostile moves) has been to ignore them and hope that proven evildoers will behave themselves. Wrong. The good cop is off the beat.
Obama failed, and the consequences of his failure have begun to be made manifest now in Egypt. I cannot understate the importance of Egypt to American interests and Israeli security. Egypt is arguably the second-most important country to the US in the region. Mubarak has been a U.S. ally for decades. We send three billion dollars a year to Egypt. And Egypt made a peace deal with Israel.
But knowing Obama, he will throw another ally under the bus.
Yes, Mubarak needs to institute democratic reform. I pray he doesn’t brutally respond to the uprising like Iran did — they slaughtered their people and crushed the Iranian revolution.
Meanwhile, the more the layers are peeled back, the more we see the hand of Iran behind what is unfolding in Egypt and all over the Middle East.
Who has emerged as a leader for post-Mubarak Egypt? Iran’s man, Mohammad ElBaradei. It is widely acknowledged that, as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ElBaradei ignored and left out of reports evidence that the IAEA had about Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. He did as much as the North Koreans to advance Iran’s nuclear weapons program. For years he provided the cover they needed in the international community to build their annihilationist program.
If Obama had seized the moment in the Iranian freedom uprising, we would not be in this position now. Iran is casting a dark cloud over the free world. The mullahs are conducting a covert war against the West in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has aligned with Venezuela and Brazil, in an Islamic imperialistic advance into Latin America. And now Iran’s bomb man ElBaradei is jockeying for power in Egypt.
Whatever comes after Mubarak will be terrible. Make no mistake.
The disastrous handling of the Iranian hostage crisis by the worst-ever President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, led to the rise of Islamic jihad across the world (that and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan). If we still had an ally in Iran, what a wonderful and different world this would be.
The Islamic takeover in Iran also started out as a secular movement and democratic unrest. Then Khomeini flew in from France and it was game over. Fast forward to 2011 in Egypt, and the same story is playing out again.
The global jihad means to install beachheads in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and in any other state that may succumb, in what appears to a domino effect. There are now rumblings in Syria and Jordan as well. Turkey is switching sides.
And the rest of the Muslim world has its finger on their itchy trigger. I hold little hope that freedom lovers in these countries have any shot against the devout Muslim movements when the leader of the free world has long since abdicated. Egypt is a secular government. The objective for all freedom-loving peoples in the world should be a transition to a new secular government. Will those elements in the protest movement be able to stave off Islamic supremacists? Iranian imperialism? I think not.
Iran has its hooves all over this.
This could be America and the West’s worst nightmare. All that military aid in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood would change everything. The Muslim Brotherhood is the head of the snake in the global violent Islamic supremacist war. They are our mortal enemy and are committed to our destruction. In a captured internal document in the largest Muslim Brotherhood terror funding case in US history, the stated aim of the Muslim Brotherhood is “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabatoging its miserable house.” And they are doing it. The Brotherhood proxies here in the US include CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, MSA, et al. Complete infiltration. Their operatives, notably Grover Norquist, are in key positions of power (on the left and the right), bought and paid for with jihad dollars.
And Obama? That quisling President invited the Muslim Brotherhood to his infamous “speech to the ummah” back in June of 2009. Civilizational surrender.
I am all for political freedom. But will Islamic jihad allow for anything but the sharia? Never. As bad as Mubarak was and is, Islamic law is far worse. The battle in Egypt is between the secularists and Islamic supremacists; they are united only in their hate for Israel, as mandated by the Qur’an. The cries of “Allahu akbar” in the streets do not instill confidence in the outcome.
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18 Comments
13 years ago
The major snag with the political situation in Egypt arises from the fact that decades of authoritarian rule have foreclosed the emergence of a range of political parties and platforms, leading to the ugly de facto dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood as the socio-political movement waiting to step into the vacuum should Mubarak fall. If Mubarak chooses to to put down this revolt a la Tianenmen Square and is successful, this will only delay an inevitable shift in power for a short time.
Mubarak is a very old man, and surely cannot have many years left to live. If he stays and there is no reform, then the Muslim Brotherhood will still be there waiting in the wings to seize power. Unlike in China in 1989 when the protest was firmly rooted in a section of the well-educated younger generation, Egypt’s revolt is more broad-based. Whereas the Chinese Communist Party could effectively buy off discontent thanks to its booming economy with its double-digit growth rate, this is not an option for Mubarak. Egypt is overpopulated; its water resources are overstretched; food prices are spiralling and its overall economy is very shaky. The demographic explosion which underpins this is of course firmly rooted in Muslim patriarchy and a lack of female control over fertility. This is a facto common to many Arab states and as Samuel Huntington predicted a youth bulge is leading to radicalisation and youthful unrest owing to a bottleneck in the jobs market.
Here in the UK, things aren’t so bad of course, but so far as Islam goes, it has spawned its own ugly set of problems. Only today ‘Lord’ Ahmed (a former Rotherham fish and chip shop owner once sentenced for killing a man in a head on collision whilst texting has given an interview in which he defends Muslim paedophile gangs in the UK, turning the blame for their crimes upon English women: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/01/lord-ahmed-defends-muslim-predatory.html
13 years ago
So the big question is does President Obama support Islamic fundamentalism because he’s a Muslim. Or does he react to Soro’s and the NWO directions and is it it part of their plan to maximize Chaos so that the illuminate motto “Out of Chaos Order” is realized. Or could it be both that the NWO in addition to one world government and finance wants Islam to be the one world religion. This would be due to the ability of the Inlams to keep Muslims ignorant and easily swayed. How many other religions can the priest say go out and kill infidels after friday morning prayers and the people do it!
13 years ago
Although economics plays a part in revolutions, it is not the primary factor here, but the people’s need to be “free”. Unfortunately, it might get worse since Muslims-at this stage- do not have the capacity for it, and sharia law might fill the vacuum. The many examples of Africa’s revolutions point to this problem; and our problems in the US, again, is not primarily economics, but the rationality of the citizens.
13 years ago
Mac-101 wrote, “Or could it be both that the NWO in addition to one world government and finance wants Islam to be the one world religion.”
Spot on! The unfolding plan seems to be one world governance under the aegis of the U.N and the one world religion: Islam
Sounds quite familiar to some.
13 years ago
Obama is an opportunist first and an Isalamist second that is why he was installed. He has done all the damage he could and is no longer useful since the November elections. He did enough sabotage in two years however, so they’ve kicked things off in Tunsia and Egypt.
As a brilliant writer penned, “America Alone”. There are a handful now in Congress who still will stand but if America is going to have a chance to fight back we have untie out hands in the 2012 elections. The RNC is already parading out their dhimmie hopefuls to media cheerleading.
Americans will fight and win. Little do they know the enemy is within. Step one is accepting that truth.
13 years ago
I agree with your analysis John. The primary motivation is connected to the desire to bring about a freer society and participatory politics in Egypt. I certainly wouldn’t advocate a Marxisant economic determinist analysis of the situation, but I drew attention to the underlying economic and demographic problems to highlight that Mubarak, unlike the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, won’t be able to trade increased economic affluence for continuing the political status quo.
Revolutions are always risky, and like you I fear that the Muslim Brotherhood is most likely to fill the political vacuum if the Mubarak regime crumbles, which looks an increasing likelihood, as I’ve outlined here: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/01/will-mubarak-go-will-mubarak-stay.html
13 years ago
@ Dagny Taggart “the NWO in addition to one world government and finance wants Islam to be the one world religion”
Huh? What you say makes absolutely no sense!
Look at who rules the global financial system: Dominic Strauss Kahn – IMF chief, Bob Zoellick – World Bank, Ben Shalom Bernanke – US Fed, Jean Claude Trichet – EU Central Bank, Lloyd Blankfiend – Goldman etc etc.
Are you seriously claiming that elite bankers, of Jewish descent mind you, now want Islam to rule??
13 years ago
Great article, Pamela! I quoted from it and linked to at at my blog today where I have an Egyptian Chaos Round-up:
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/01/egyptian-chaos-round-up.html
13 years ago
this pretty well says it all ….. Headlines just off the Drudge Report ;
Muslim Brotherhood: Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States…
Iran Sees Rise of Islamic Hard-Liners in Arab Lands…
Shutdown of Internet first in history…
Thousands protest in Jordan, demand PM step down…
Huge anti-government protest in Albania…
New protests erupt in Yemen…
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OBAMA CONFUSES IRAQ WITH AFGHANISTAN…
Will be out ‘by the end of this year’…
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Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border…
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REFRESH DRUDGE REPORT FOR LATEST…
Muslim Brotherhood Granted ‘Direct Access’ To Taxpayer’s Stimulus Grants By Obama
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/01/30/obamas-september-surprise-islamic-acorn-islam-granted-%e2%80%98direct-access%e2%80%99-to-taxpayers-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/Muslim
Brotherhood’s Terror Training Camps Inside The USA
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/01/30/southern-poverty-law-center-sic-muslim-brotherhoods-terror-training-camps-inside-the-usa/
13 years ago
Yep, time to run off some more copies of the Protocols of the Elders.
Them Jooos are at it again.
Hey buddy, you’re on the highway to hell if you promote that g.d. stuff.
There IS an affiliation of academics, think tank and media people who see Islam as a useful tool to incite chaos and help neutralize what’s left of traditional values and institutions in Europe and America. It has no more to do with Jews than it does with Anglicans, Catholics, Baptists or Hindus and everything to do with Utopian socialism. It remains to be seen who will be the greater fool, Islam or the academics. Anybody want to put odds?
(I just have a sick feeling that the scenes of looting and anarchy in Cairo are a foretaste of L.A. or Chicago when gasoline hits $8 or $10 / gal.)
13 years ago
Pamela, you have succinctly summed up what is going on in Egypt, and how those events relate to the bigger picture now, and to history. I can’t decide if 0bama has done more damage at home or abroad? If he’s as smart as his followers say he is than there MUST be willful intent in his every decision (and indecision). Unfortunately, we ALL are reaping the consequences of his choices. I fear global chess pieces are being put in place that we cannot even BEGIN to fathom yet, and history will bear out 0bama’s direct responsibility. How could he just look the other way when brave Iranians were crying out for freedom? and now he’s taking his hands off the wheel in Egypt. What kind of man IS HE???? How does he sleep at night????????/
13 years ago
Mubarak is as good as it gets. Everything else will be worse, far worse.
Just like the Shah in Iran. It was the best Iran could ever be under the circumstances.
It is the ultimate folly to apply western standards of “democracy & freedom” to countries where such concepts are totally rejected.
The religious ideology that perverts all Islamic countries makes it impossible to create a civil society.
13 years ago
These BANKSTERS who are raping America are no more Jewish at heart than Soros. Their allegence is to the golden Calf and their Social utopia which will end up be a corporate facist state with the ELITES with almost ALL the money and ALL the power! Hello 1984!
The only otehr senario I can think of is that the NWO wants Israel to get wipped off the face of the earth, retaliatte putting a major hurtin on Muslim population centers, and then they rebuild Israel as teh head of Government, finance and religion! Look up Mechaim Begin 1962 March interview.
13 years ago
Pam don’t pray too hard for Mubarak to not respond brutally to this uprising. If he survives this and holds on to power that will be the only way he will be able to do it. Mubarak now has the opportunity
to destroy the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood. If he is smart he will send in death squads and kill all of them and claim it was the work anyone number of rival groups. He then tells the people that this why he must stay in power, to save and protect the people from extremist groups. Everyone in the Arab world will know what happened and it will send a clear message to all. This is how you hang on to power in the Middle East. Its the only way.
13 years ago
When Obama lectured Mubarak on reforms, left him tow options, fight or flee.
How is one of the most powerful leaders in the Arab world going to look if he follows direct orders from the President of the US.
I assume the people of the Obama administration came to the same conclusion.
13 years ago
The theme that I keep seeing in nearly every Obama proposal, response to an uprising or legislation,is EMANCIPATION, also called “Hope and Change” in his campaign rhetoric. From the Black Panthers to healthcare,from open borders to political appointees, Obama trends to support the “protest-to-reform” venue. In this way, he still lives in the 1960’s on the streets of the deep south, which is really quite something for a boy raised in a Muslim school in Kenya. It is no wonder,then, that he chooses Abraham Lincoln as a favorite American President. Lincoln’s political loyalty was to “saving the Union” superseding any slavery/race issues. “As the Civil War raged, Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley, influential editor of the New York Tribune: “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. [If] I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” Obama is no Lincoln.
13 years ago
Interesting! I didn’t know Lincoln said that. Ya learn something new everyday. As for 0bama, the bumper sticker with Jimmy Carter waving and saying “You miss me yet??” comes to mind. My gawd, we have a Carter on Steroids with this one. What a disaster.
13 years ago
To think that this mob in Middle East could create freedoms relative to western norms can only be seen though western ethnocentrism. It is ingrained in us to believe that people will always chose liberty as we know it. As such a belief such as this can only be explained through the fiat of ignorance, or the clouded vision of irrational emotive compassion.
