We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East

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We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East

By James Simpson

If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination of leftist and Islamist forces provoked the protests, and we are likely looking at a ring of radical Islamic states rising up to surround Israel. Once their power is solidified, perhaps in a year or two, they will combine forces to attack Israel. If Israel falls, the United States will stand alone in a sea of virulent enemies and impotent allies.

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama Administration Favors a Role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a New Egyptian Government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed. And while they may have publicly renounced violence as the LA Times article claims, internal documents tell a completely different story.

And if that weren't bad enough, Obama's latest comment to Egypt's leader is that "an orderly transition ... must begin now."

Must begin. Now.

Simply stunning.

Juxtapose Obama's statements toward our allies with his reaction to the genuine uprising that occurred last year in Iran. Tunisia: "Reform or be overthrown." Egypt: "an orderly transition ... must begin now." Iran: "It is not productive ... to be seen as meddling." Meanwhile, candidate Obama claimed that the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezb'allah have "legitimate claims," and we all remember his mindless counterterrorism czar, John Brennan, reaching out to "moderate" Hezb'allah members last spring. Hezb'allah moderates?

The seeming inconsistency is astonishing. Unfortunately, there is a consistency. Obama uniformly sides with our enemies but rarely, if ever, with our friends and allies. His administration is packed with far-left radicals and vicious anti-Semites. And therein lies the rub, because what we are witnessing in reality is this president's un-American, anti-American, treasonous ideology in full play.

Perhaps this is the real reason for Bill Ayers's, Bernardine Dohrn's, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin's and Jody Evans's trips to Egypt in 2009. Following those trips, these same people made multiple visits to the White House.

Obama's breathlessly arrogant answer? Not the same Ayers, Dohrn, Benjamin, and Evans. Sure.

A few years back, I cited a quote by Lynn Stewart, the National Lawyers Guild attorney jailed for helping blind sheikh Omar Adel Raman foment terror from his New York jail cell. One might think that atheistic radical leftists would be foursquare against a political movement that tramples women's rights, murders homosexuals, and enforces strict theocratic mandates. No such luck, Stewart said:

They [radical Islamic movements] are basically forces of national liberation. And I think that we, as persons who are committed to the liberation of oppressed people, should fasten on the need for self-determination. ... My own sense is that, were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries ... to liberate.

" ... movements within their own countries ... to liberate." Given recent developments, Stewart's statement was prescient. But I think it had a special meaning. Because when movement leftists like Stewart talk about "liberation," they are really talking about communism.

It has been my longstanding assertion that Muslim terrorism is simply a false flag operation, managed in the background by our main enemies, Russia and Red China. Almost since the beginning, Muslim terrorist organizations have been supported and nurtured by the Soviet Union or its Middle Eastern surrogates.

Yasser Arafat's PLO is a prime example. Created by the KGB, the PLO was always about providing a Soviet counterweight to Israel in the Middle East. They were uninterested in the Palestinian cause, and they said so! Alexander Litvinenko, the KGB defector poisoned by Polonium 210 in what was assumed to be a KGB hit, claimed in his book, Allegations, that al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was a Soviet agent. And while today Hezb'allah is the de facto ruler of Lebanon, the real power is Ba'athist Syria.

David Horowitz wrote of the alliance between leftists and Muslim terrorists in his seminal book: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. He describes in detail how the left and Muslim radicals work together to achieve their mutual ends: the destruction of America.

It is incomprehensible that President Obama does not recognize the strategic significance of what is happening, and if he does, then his support of Egypt's sham "democracy movement" is a naked betrayal of our Middle Eastern allies and, by extension, our own country.

Unfortunately, his view is shared by some Republicans who are so in love with the idea of "democracy" that it doesn't matter to them that the "democrats" in this case include fanatic mass murderers. At best, it can be seen only as incredibly myopic and ignorant to support Mubarak's enemies. People make the same mistake Carter did with Iran and Nicaragua: they commit the logical error of assuming that just because a country's current leadership is flawed and "undemocratic," that automatically means that someone else would do better. Newsflash: they can do worse, and almost without exception, they do, because people who take power by street riot have no interest in "democracy."

If their street revolutions are successful, these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies. Israel will be the first target, and with Obama's radically anti-Israel orientation, the Israelis will stand alone. We will be next. One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.

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Obama's latest comment to Egypt's leader is that "an orderly transition ... must begin now."

Has Obama any idea of who the transition will involve?

[SivartM]

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0128_egypt_riedel.aspx

Well, the Egyptians will get to choose their government. If they don't like Mubarak, and they probably have good reasons not to, and they institute a Muslim government instead, it will probably not be the end of the world as we know it.

[doug yowell]

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0128_egypt_riedel.aspx

Well, the Egyptians will get to choose their government. If they don't like Mubarak, and they probably have good reasons not to, and they institute a Muslim government instead, it will probably not be the end of the world as we know it.

Unless, of course, you're a Christian living there.

[SivartM]

Well, the Christians and Muslims seem to be getting along pretty well right now: http://www.good.is/post/protesters-are-a...slims-in-egypt/

[doug yowell]

Well, the Christians and Muslims seem to be getting along pretty well right now:

I think the key word is, right now. Talk to any Coptic Christian or any Christian in the Muslim world (including SDA's) and ask them if they are optimistic about their future if the government goes Muslim. If you get your information from the MSM you may get the impression that everything is peachy for Christians in Islamic countries. But that's only because the MSM doesn't report the persecutions of Christians in those countries. My take is that because the overwhelming number of media personal view Christianity as stupid, evil, and unworthy of notice they simply aren't interested in their plight.The fact remains that when secular strongmen are in charge they don't feel threatened by Christians and tend to be more intolerent of any acts of lawlessness within their regime. This is a mixed bag for the general population in a society where Christianity is hated.Given "freedom" (like Iran,Iraq,Turkey,ect...ect...)the Muslim population is now freed from refraining from acts of violence against other religious groups.The future safety of the Christian community in Egypt hinges on what kind of a government takes control.

[doug yowell]

Interestingly enough, my wife just told me of her conversation with one of our friends from Egypt. Her husband's family are all still living in Egypt. They are really scared. Our friend (coincidentially?)said that they (including her)thought the end of the world was about to happen.

[karl]

Quote:

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama Administration Favors a Role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a New Egyptian Government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed.

Our leaders have, either knowingly or unknowingly, set this whole thing up. This is the new evil empire. Russia is no longer the threat. Now it is filthy rich muslim extremists. (Why don't we use our own energy instead of buying it from these people?) And if the muslim brotherhood won't cooperate in being the bogeymen of the world there's always North Korea to fall back on.

Endless wars for "freedom" bring us continually decreasing freedoms.

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Quote:

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama Administration Favors a Role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a New Egyptian Government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed.

Our leaders have, either knowingly or unknowingly, set this whole thing up. This is the new evil empire. Russia is no longer the threat. Now it is filthy rich muslim extremists. (Why don't we use our own energy instead of buying it from these people?) And if the muslim brotherhood won't cooperate in being the bogeymen of the world there's always North Korea to fall back on.

Endless wars for "freedom" bring us continually decreasing freedoms.

I heard on our local radio Obama and Hilary Clinton have known of this almost a year.What a fraud

[doug yowell]

According to today's latest presidential statement, we can know for sure that we are "witnessing history in the making".

Deep.

[doug yowell]

No Christian should be suprised by any of these events. Wistfully hoping for "peace in our time" (apart from Christ)we seem constantly judgmental as to why it has been so elusive."Remember The 10 Toes!"

[Tom Wetmore]

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0128_egypt_riedel.aspx

Well, the Egyptians will get to choose their government. If they don't like Mubarak, and they probably have good reasons not to, and they institute a Muslim government instead, it will probably not be the end of the world as we know it.

Quite an amazing difference in perspective between James Simpson and that of Brookings. One could conclude that they are not even talking about the same situation in the same time period.