Month: July 2012

A Certain Group

Excerpt below is from today’s NYT article “After Meeting With Clinton, Egypt’s Military Chief Steps Up Political Feud”

CAIRO — Egypt’s top military official stepped up his feud with the Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday, saying the army would prevent Egypt from falling to a “certain group,” according to the state news agency.

The remarks by the official, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, did not mention the Brotherhood by name but were widely seen as a reference to the group and to Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s newly elected president and a former Brotherhood leader. And they came just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the field marshal in Cairo in an effort to prod Egypt’s military to hand its power to civilians.

The accelerating dispute between the military and the Brotherhood marked the latest unpredictable turn in Egypt’s chaotic transition, and underscored the challenges Mrs. Clinton faced on her two-day visit to Egypt.

She also faced anger from Christian leaders, including some who boycotted a meeting with her on Sunday, objecting to what they said was interference by the United States in Egypt’s politics in order to aid an Islamist rise to power.

2 cents:

“Certain group” which at this time the best way to define it is Islamists not just Muslim Brotherhood.

“Unpredictable turn” – really? The military on the whole protected the citizens of the country during the uprising. Yes there was some bad behavior but not on the whole. If it would have been on the whole their would have been a slaughter in the square and elsewhere. The military does not want to hand power over to one party especially in the case when the one party is the MB = Islamists. Clinton hopefully is not actually pressuring the military to do such a thing. Hopefully she is doing her best at just riding the fence, showing the desire to be an Allie  of the nation. Again, we need to applaud the military’s proactive energies in protecting the nation, its citizens.

“Aid an Islamist rise to power” – this is Christian commentary and analysis of the actions of the CES and his administration. This is not analysis by the Republican party or the Tea Party, this is analysis by the people in the middle of the so-called Arab Spring.

 

Remember CES = Chief Empty Suit = current USA President

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Clinton Visits Egypt, Carrying a Muted Pledge of Support

In today’s NYT is an article about Sec. of State Clinton’s meeting with Egypt’s President and head of the military.

In the middle of the article are these two sentences (emphasis added):
“The generals, who seized power last year after the ouster of the strongman Hosni Mubarak, have repeatedly rebuffed American pressure. The new president, Mr. Morsi, and the other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood still harbor deep doubts about Washington’s agenda and have repeatedly surprised American officials in Washington with the accelerating pace of their moves to take power.“

 

2 cents:

A not-so startling admission or analysis of or about the CES’ administration.

Really – how could they be surprised?

1. Is the administration isolated and insulated from the news and commentary going in the world?
2. Does the administration have an uneducated  and unwise understanding of the methods and motivations of the different ethnic and religious ideologies involved in the Middle East?
3.  Does the administration have a bias that views the events unfolding in the world and especially in the Middle East with a Muslim understanding that is skewed with far-left liberal philosophical and political beliefs?
4.  (Similar to #2) Is the administration’s “think tanks” uneducated as well as unwise about the people and groups involved in the Middle East?
5. Is the administration feigning surprise when actually the activity of groups like the MB are progressing exactly as the administration expected and wanted?

My point being either the administration is inept or things are progressing as planned and in either case the best interest of our country and its allies are not being met.

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Great advice

A great article I wanted to share about addressing real problems in our nation and identifying possible solutions. This is the kind of dialogue we should expect and see from our government but instead it is coming from a commentary writer for the Washington Post.

Washington Post

Great advice that Romney, the current administration and our Congress should act on.

We – the citizens – should hold our government’s feet to the fire and demand action along these lines.

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Checking the Islamist

From Krauthammer’s 7/12 article on the “Islamist Ascendancy

“…Egypt, the largest and most influential, has experienced an Islamist sweep. The Muslim Brotherhood didn’t just win the presidency. It won nearly half the seats in parliament, while more openly radical Islamists won 25 percent. Combined, they command more than 70 percent of parliament — enough to control the writing of a constitution (which is why the generals hastily dissolved parliament)…”

2 cents: See! My position on what is going on in Egypt is not half-baked. The military is protecting the citizens of Egypt and the nation’s future from the Islamist. Reminder: The CES – USA president – is fully supporting the MB and it’s new president = the Islamist.

Krauthammer’s new article is here

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Preparing chemical weapons for use in Syria

As part of its ongoing war maneuver, Syria Thursday, July 12, this week drilled the firing of advanced Scud D ballistic missiles capable of carrying chemical weapons and nerve gas – a clear message from Bashar Assad that weapons of mass destruction are now in play to save his regime.
American officials, alarmed by the movement out of storage of parts of his vast arsenal of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide, warned it could escalate the Syrian conflict and expand it to other parts of the region. The Obama administration has begun to hold classified briefings about the new intelligence.
In the course of its war exercise, the Syrians fired a selection of ground-to-ground missiles which they described as capable of “hitting targets deep within enemy territory.” Our military sources say all the Scuds, the M-600, Fateh-110 and Zelzal can reach any point in Israel. They also tested upgraded C-802 shore-to-ship rockets.

whole article here 

2 cents: Don’t forget that Russia is defending Syria.

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not an October surprise

At least 11 Russian warships are heading for Syria from their Black Sea and North Sea bases; NATO’s rapid response Maritime Group 2 is on its way to the E. Mediterranean too, and five Israeli warships are already deployed. The French nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle-R91 is making for the French naval base at Port Zayid, Abu Dhabi, opposite the Strait of Hormuz. In Riyadh, high Saudi officials are convinced a US strike against Iran is coming soon – before or after the November election.
debkafile’s military sources report that this is the first simultaneous, coordinated Syrian-Iranian military maneuver for drilling action against an advancing enemy. It is synchronized from a joint headquarters established for the purpose in Damascus.
While these coordinated maneuvers are being presented as designed to fend off foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict, our sources report that they are in fact preparing for a potential US attack on Iran’s nuclear program, which is now expected in Gulf and European military quarters to take place in October, three months hence.
High-ranking Saudi princes associated with their national military and intelligence agencies frankly confided to Arab and Western officials on recent visits to Riyadh that the US and, possibly Israel too, are on the verge of war on Iran. “It is already decided,” they say. The only question still open is the date, which could be before or after the US presidential election on November 6.
In line with this prediction, France is reported in Paris to be massing a large naval force in the United Arab Emirates. The French nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle-R91 is expected to dock soon at the French naval base in Port Zayid on Abu Dhabi’s northeastern coast opposite the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The French are also boosting their air units at Al Dhafra Air Base, stationing them alongside a large American air force presence.

whole article here

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