Ain’t quite working out as hoped – from The Daily Star:
The Syrian army consolidated its grip on the hotbed city of Homs on Sunday, activists said, as embattled President Bashar al-Assad sacked the governor of a flashpoint province 48 hours after massive anti-government protests.
Security forces also rounded up hundreds of civilians in Damascus and made a spate of arrests in the town of Sarakeb in the northwestern province of Idlib near the Turkish border, activists said…
Meanwhile, the war in Libya goes on with no end in sight, Egypt heads towards a Moslem Brotherhood government, Iran gets closer to building nuclear weapons and The One – who by “smart diplomacy” was supposed to restore our image – looks ever more weak, flabby and foolish in foreign affairs.
The world is getting ever messier due to the lack of firm leadership in the United States. There is no policy, just a series of knee-jerk reactions. Bomb Libya to save civilians, but don’t liberate them…meanwhile, don’t bomb Syria to save civilians because … heck, I don’t know: what is our rationale for not bombing Syria? Are we still holding to Hillary’s assertion that Little Assad is a “reformer”?
The world works when America wields overwhelming power directed towards clear, achievable ends. Obama doesn’t know this – I suspect that no one in his foreign policy team knows this. 2012 really can’t get here fast enough…
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And the net result will be sphere of influence in the Arab world orchestrated out of Tehran. Looks like Barry’s outstretched hand has been bitten off and spitted out.
d(^_^)b
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
LAS
what would anyone expect from a marxist muslem never was, empty suit?
I am guessing that Obama’s Cairo speech didn’t work the way he intended it to. Shocking.
US Congresswoman in Iran Says U.S. Gov Responsible for Assassinations, Most Violent on Planet & Led by Misguided Men at UN Supported Conference Against Terrorism
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/us-congresswoman-in-iran-says-u-s-gov-responsible-for-assassinations-most-violent-on-planet-lead-by-misguided-men-at-un-supported-conference-against-terrorism/
cynthia mckinney = TRAITOR
try her HANG her.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Embraces Business
The Islamic political group meets investors and praises markets
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-embraces-business-07072011.html
Only a few months ago, Khairat El-shater was languishing in an Egyptian prison, put there by the Hosni Mubarak regime. Many of his businesses were shuttered. Now the Deputy Supreme Guide or No. 2 leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s dominant political-Islamic group, shuttles between meetings at one of his once-closed offices in a grimy building in the Nasr City district of Cairo. His visitors include bankers and foreign investors from the U.S. to Australia. “They all have many questions about one issue: What impact will the Muslim Brotherhood have on the investment climate?” says El-shater.
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Mark, given the poor judgement in running the Norway story based on a claim of a claim of a claim of a claim … and the business week story above I want to know if you have any substantial data to support the idea that Egypt is becoming a fundamentalist Islamic state. This Muslim Brotherhood organization seems scarier to you than people who invest partly based on stability.
I’ll recall you were a lukewarm supporter of the Libyan fiasco in the beginning as well.
I do welcome any conversion to the fact that we are wasting billions without sustainable progress in the MidEast and should use the monies better or not collect them at all.
“the Norway story”
Mark sure dropped that story like a hot potato. Gee, I wonder why? Hasn’t he gotten his updated talking points yet?
Monty,
I just have more than one venue for my writing.
Nice job sidestepping the fact that Breivik sounds exactly like you in his ravings about “dying Europe” and “growing Marxism” and “multiculturalism” and “the Islamic invasion,” Mark. I knew I could count on you to try to hide that, seeing as how it’s yet another in a very long line of events that obliterates your “there’s no such thing as right-wing violence” foolishness.
You were all too happy to use the event as a pretext for demanding holy war against Islam; now that it’s come out that the terrorist is on your side…not so much fire and brimstone, huh?
bardolf,
“Friendly to markets” doesn’t mean “Jeffersonian democrat”. Over in Nicaragua you can see an example of this – Daniel Ortega is shredding the Nicaraguan constitution but he’s allowing businesses to rake in the profits. So, too, does the Chinese government.
But the Moslem Brotherhood is an unrepentant, Islamo-fascist organization dedicated to sharia, Caliphate and holocaust. You can turn a blind eye to what they are but I won’t.
My question was “Do you have any substantial data to support the idea that Egypt is becoming a fundamentalist Islamic state?”
You didn’t answer that question.
I didn’t ask what you feel in your gut. I didn’t ask what you believe down deep in your soul. I asked if as a blogger you had any objective proof that Egypt is becoming as a whole a more fundamentalist country.