On Saturday, John Hinderaker posted an article at Power Line about how the Obama Administration is handling recent events in the Middle East.
In a speech to a group of Jewish donors in Miami on Friday, President Obama stated:
"All the forces that we see building in Egypt are the forces that should be naturally aligned with the US, [and] should be aligned with Israel."
Wow. That is an amazing statement when you consider the recent events in Egypt. Let's look at two of those events:
Egyptian protesters shouted "Jew, Jew" as they stripped Lara Logan naked and beat her with poles.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi returned to Egypt after having been exiled for almost 30 years. Al-Qardawi supports suicide bombings and has stated, "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the (Jews) people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler." On February 18th al-Qardawi addressed the crowd at Tahrir Square.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see these statements or actions as an indication of friendship toward Israel.
The article at Power Line points out:
"Paul Pillar, a longtime CIA analyst who now teaches at Georgetown University, said, "Most of the people in the intelligence community would see things on this topic very similarly to the president - that is, political Islam as a very diverse series of ideologies, all of which use a similar vocabulary, but all quite different.""
John Hinderaker draws a very logical conclusion from that comment:
"One is left speechless. Turmoil in the Middle East promises a set of new regimes; the optimistic scenario, apparently, is that they will be dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood rather than al Qaeda. And the main problem this will pose for the President will come from the Republicans! And, of course--but why?--those pesky Israelis. We can describe this charitably as a remarkably Washington-centric view.
"All of this reinforces the sense that the Obama administration and the foreign policy establishment are without a clue and without a plan as they watch events unfold."
Unfortunately, the events will not wait for the Obama Administration to 'get a clue.' We may be in for a very rough ride.
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