I am sure Obama has Pelosi & Reid on the blue line.
They are probably drafting up a bill to allow millions of Egyptians to enter America so they can vote in the 2012 elections. They will probably call it -
“Give Freedom Act of 2011″.

But seriously. What does Obama do? He will probably give another speech
and then not back it up with any action. I wonder if he is sitting in the Oval office saying – “What Would Reagan Do”. I doubt it – This is Jimmy Carter’s 2nd term and we will probably see a re-run of 1979.

Is because the Muslim Brotherhood and all its offshoots sense the weakness in the White House. The only thing the brotherhood understands is action or the threat of same. Teleprompter-fueled lectures won’t cut it.

Glenn Reynolds links to an interesting snippet http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4021125,00.html. A group of Israelis in Cairo report being treated quite well, perhaps even better than prior years.

Like many of these “upheavals” I t…hink there are two competing forces at work here. The “revolution” is fueled by many, many people who genuinely want freedom and democracy, the situation Bush started out trying to foment in the region. These are the bulk of the upheaval wanting to get rid of tyranny and have genuine freedom.

The other force at work is the Muslim Brotherhood and their ilk and fueled by the Iranian stooges. These people want revolution but their aim is their own brand of tyranny, Islamism.

The folks in the streets are demanding freedom and the elimination of the tyranny of Mubarak and company and what they are probably going to get is a new form of tyranny, the Islamists.

This is a great post, but you assume Obama actually cares about bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East. Obama is a Statist and is ruling as such here in the US. He favors a statist regime in Egypt so long as it’s run by people he likes….like the Muslim Brotherhood.

Four years of Carter gave us Reagan.

Remember when m any of us were saying Obama wasn’t nearly as good as Carter?

This is what happens folks when you stay home or vote 3rd party on principle. Obama has no clue how to respond to this, primarily because he lacks the experience, but also because he failed to surround himself with anyone else that does.

I honestly can’t see Obama telling any other nation what they must do. That would be completely against everything he’s said and done so far.

The truth is Obama, the State Department, Hillary, and the rest of the administration has already failed this big test. The job of the state department and the rest of our diplomats is to see things like this coming and act to stop them (or encourage them depending on our interests). At this point what happens is not up to Obama but the people of Egypt and whatever the government there can do.

DF
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Ludwig Von Mises, Athenians debating in assembly, two cars in every garage, women doffing those black veils,[the ones much more in use now then in the '80's, ahem], ah Phillips, ah Carafano, of course & why not? What’s to stop it? After all, it’s just another muslim country, really no different from Spokane or Buffalo. Muslim Brotherhood, sort of like our Kiwanis or Elks.
Wilsonian Democracy, it never dies.

Ms. Van Susteren reports on the festivities for good ol’ Davey.

So of course, that makes it hope and change time in Egypt.

Hillary Clinton on CBS:

“We’re trying to promote an orderly transition and change that will respond to the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people which the protests are all about,”

But wait, there’s more……

Fighter jets swoop over Cairo protests in show of force.

No worries though…… The Egyptian military have said “they will not go against the people”.

Really ?

The ‘true believers’ are in every aspect of Muslim existence, from the bottom up to the very top and back down again. They’ve had decades of practice in taqiya. They live for shaheed. Infidels are anyone and everyone who doesn’t agree with them 110%, including their own.

All it’s gonna take is one pilot in place, his war-loaded aircraft and a nice loud Tally-Ho Snackbar over the radio. Next thing you know, 68 rounds per second of .50 cal. are coming from the gut, plus Sidewinders and whatever else is mounted gets launched. Once out of ammo/weapons, a second Tally-Ho Snackbar and something big is gonna get hit.

It’ll take less than a minute for that to happen.

We should play this one carefully. The Israelis have wisely decided to keep silent because they understand that there is much friction between the Egyptian People and Israel.
The US should also be cautious in any statements regarding the Egyptian situation. There is enough resentment of America on the part of the Egyptian People to act very wisely. When the dust settles, America should have placed itself in the position of greater friendship with Egypt.
The people of Egypt face ominous choices. The Muslim Brotherhood will attempt to take advantage of the weakened state of Egypt, by gaining a foothold. They are backed by Jihad organizations like Hezbollah, Hammas and al Qaeda and would attempt to create a theocracy in Egypt.
If Mubarak is allowed to stay in power, he will promise change but instead will rule with an iron hand after gaining full control. He will ferret out his enemies. He definitely needs to go and should not be allowed to serve in any capacity.
The people of Egypt need to be very careful about who they ally themselves with. These organizations will seek full payment of debt far beyond what the people are prepared to accept.

HAMAS

from charges that it is anti-democratic, pro-dictatorship, etc., but its recommendations are nonetheless utopian and silly to the extreme. I agree that Obama should be looking into ways that the current regime can meet the demands of protesters, but it is foolish to the extreme to go to bat for the democrats in the case of Egypt, IMO.

it was failed a long time ago the first time the O’s people helped the muslim brotherhood along…

mistake after mistake is being piled on by the O as he demonstrates his carteresque mishandling of foriegn policy from the ’70′s template of how to screw over your allies…

1. Pledge to minimize the use of force and the loss life in its efforts to restore order;
Aside from the initial reaction by police, the army hasn’t fired a shot and the demonstrations are loud, but peaceful.

2. Agree to open up the political system to allow meaningful participation by Egyptian citizens in forming a representative government;
The Egyptians are doing this themselves; the current government is not so “representative,” but this will change.

3. Restore Internet service and access to the world; and
Bad though it may seem, shutting down the Internet for a brief while prevents outside groups and interests from inciting violence.

4. Release opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei from house arrest.
Oh, come on! If you bothered to watch BBC, ElBaradei was all over the streets of Egypt this weekend, unmolested in addressing crowds and calling for a peaceful transition to a new Government.

Even John Boehner praised Obama Sunday for his handling of the current events in Egypt. Hillary’s statement was just perfect, and well-balanced. I’m sorry to admit it, but we (and the administration) are doing ok for the moment. Not that I’m agin’ it, but undermining our President on Foreign Policy at the moment isn’t a good idea … wait ’til the dust settles, THEN comment profusely.

If I were an Egyptian (and having lived there for several years, I have some claim to being one), the man I would fear most is Barak Hussein Obama. This, remember, is the regime which “never lets a crisis go to waste.” One must assume they aren’t letting this one go to waste, either. And since Obama (as with the Iranian uprising) is clearly giving no legitimate support to the pro-democracy forces, the implication is that his preferred outcome is jihadist victory. This man is a wolf on the prowl. He’s no friend of the Egyptians; he’s no friend of the Americans. Trust me: it all will be chillingly clear in historical retrospect.

He swore to uphold it. I don’t think he knows it or our country.
Sarah was right in her statement wtf last week. Scratching heads on whatever a president says tells more about him than we want to know.
He is failing on upholding the republic.

are very similar, except that the head of the Communists were secularists – Marx, Engels and Lenin – while the Islamist’s is Allah and Mohamed. You have to wonder which one will win in Egypt.

The “authority” of Allah is greater in Muslim countries than Marx (even though Muslim countries have been targeted for infiltration by the Soviets in their heyday) and The Muslim Brotherhood is more sublte and better organized than the unions in Egypt, so that the likelihood of an Iran2.0 is more likely than a “democratic” change to “better governance” that Hillary Clinton and Obama seem to support!

Either way, Obama and this administration will support whatever government “change” will take place in Egypt, since they are believers in “change” even if the change is as disastrous as in America since he took office.

And what do you think will happen to the internet here when BrObama declares martial law? “He”, most likely, will not call it that, but, access to the internet will be curtailed. All in the name of “Fairness” and/or “Security”, of course. I’m sorry if I either offend you, anger you, or, and most importantly, strike you as some sort of paranoid nut. The facts remain as they are. this “[im]Potentate Of the United States” (“[im]POTUS”) has missed almost no chance to diminish, demean, deny or dismiss America’s greatness, her history and the very foundations upon which she was built. His call during the campaign for “A civilian police force. Just as large, just as well funded [just as well armed?] as the military”, has already been realized in his healthcare law. It authorizes an armed “Enforcement Force”. To what purpose? “Compliance!” Pure and simple. To quote a dear friend of mine: “Paranoia is what they call perceptivity, before you’re proven right”.