From: Don Surber
As events in Egypt unfold — violently — the wisdom of Hosni Mubarak shines through, as does the stupidity of President Obama.
On February 11, 2011, President Obama said of the overthrow of President Mubarak by the Muslim Brotherhood and other nefarious groups: “Egypt will never be the same… Over the last two weeks the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace as the Egyptian people demanded their universal rights.”
The president also intoned martin Luther King: “There’s something in the soul that cries out for freedom.”
There is something in the president’s soul that also cries insipid.
The Arab Spring just popped out like that, huh?
No Iranian influence.
No radical Muslims at work.
No connection to al-Qaeda.
Just one day Ahmad and Khaled are hanging around the old pyramid smoking Camels and watching the blonde waitresses take their trays, spin around and cross the floor, when Ahmad says to Khaled: “You know what we could use around here? Some of that Jeffersonian democracy like they have in teh Good Old U.S.A.”
So how is that working out, 3 months later?
From Andrew McCarthy:
Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex, killed a dozen people, and wounded more than 200: just another day in this spontaneous democratic uprising by Muslim hearts yearning for freedom.
In the delusional vocabulary of the “Arab Spring,” this particular episode is known as a sectarian “clash.” That was the Washington Post’s take. Its headline reads “12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash” — in the same way, one supposes, that a mugger’s fist can be said to “clash” with his victim’s face. The story goes on, in nauseating “cycle of violence” style, to describe “clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians” that “left” 12 dead, dozens more wounded, “and a church charred” — as if it were not crystal clear who were the clashers and who were the clashees, as if the church were somehow combusted into a flaming heap without some readily identifiable actors having done the charring.
And of course, this puts an end to all of Jimmy Carter’s work on bringing Israel and Egypt to agree to peaceful co-existence.
Not that liberals really care.
Liberals could not care less about Christianity.
As for Israel, 40 years of Arab donation to Ivy League schools are paying off.
Mubarak was a strong man but he was also a key ally in the war of terrorism.
Egypt just became our most powerful opponent in that war.
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