No sequester for Egypt
The editors of Investors Business Daily pose a good question: What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a supposedly devastating sequester? Has this...
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Contain this
I would like to think that the internal contradictions of Islamism will bring down regimes such as that of Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi. Today the New York Times reports on Egypt’s shortages of food and...
View ArticleThe Brotherhood has a few questions
Andrew McCarthy reminds us that the grand strategy of President Obama involves an inability to sort out our friends from our enemies: The president is mulishly determined to cultivate...
View ArticleWhite House Hosts Sheikh Who Called for Killing American Troops in Iraq
Andy McCarthy reports that President Obama’s top national security advisers have just hosted Sheikh Abdulla bin Bayyah at the White House. In 2004, according to McCarthy, bin Bayyah endorsed a fatwa...
View ArticleThe plot thickens in Egypt
I’ve been expecting the Egyptian military to demand that President Morsi reach some sort of accommodation with the anti-government protest movement. I wasn’t confident, though, this would happen right...
View ArticleWave of the Eighth Century
President Obama fancies himself a progressive in the Progressive tradition. He wants not only to ride the wave of the future but to sense where it is going and give it a nudge. As with all good...
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It’s Starting to Feel Like 1979
While Obama is off doing who knows what in Africa right now, the Middle East seems poised on a knife edge. Between civil war in Syria, a prospective coup in Egypt that could lead to civil war, and...
View ArticleWave of the Eighth Century, cont’d
The Obama administration is supporting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in the current crisis of the regime. That is my reading of Elise Labott’s CNN story and Matthew Lee’s...
View ArticleLet’s not romanticize the Egyptian protests
The Egyptian protests that threaten the power of Mohammed Morsi, the nation’s Islamist president, are a very welcome development. But lest anyone conclude that all opposition to Morsi is benign, check...
View ArticleIn Egypt, a huge setback for the alleged wave of the future
It turns out that President Obama isn’t any better at picking winning regimes abroad than he is at picking winning businesses at home. Today, the government of President Morsi, which Obama had...
View ArticleThe end of Obama’s Egypt amateur hour
David Goldman shows, among other things, that the Egyptian coup signals that Saudi Arabia, not the U.S., will have the leading foreign role in Egypt’s affairs going forward. At the risk of sounding...
View ArticleReading Obama
ON Wednesday night the White House issued President Obama’s statement on events in Egypt including the removal of President Morsi from power. The statement is posted here. Please check it out. As we...
View ArticleEl Baradei is Egypt’s new prime minister, unless he isn’t
Earlier today, Egyptian state media announced that Mohamed ElBaradei, a former chief of the U.N. nuclear agency, had been appointed Egypt’s interim prime minister. But later, according to the...
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It’s Official: Obama Has Surpassed Jimmy Carter
Hassan al-BannaJimmy Carter infamously declared that America suffered from an “inordinate fear of Communism,” but at least, as far as I can recall, he didn’t actively promote or side with Communist...
View ArticleIn Egypt, a no-brainer that Obama can’t figure out
The biggest news story that broke during my stay in Europe was the Egyptian military’s move against the Muslim Brotherhood, and the ensuing bloodshed. The story received extensive coverage on French...
View ArticleNot a legitimate party
I find it absolutely bizarre how little attention is paid to the fundamental nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is not a legitimate political party. Its objects are not consistent with democracy or...
View ArticleNature abhors a vacuum
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia promised to compensate Egypt for every bit of aid that the U.S. or other Western countries might withdraw in the response to the Egyptian military’s crackdown against its Muslim...
View ArticleHistory refuses to cooperate with Obama in the Middle East
The Washington Post rarely delivers great news to my door step. Today is an exception, although it’s not clear that the Post recognizes it as such. Here’s the Post’s lead headline: “Egypt’s Muslim...
View ArticleThe sources of Obama’s tragic Syria policy
Caroline Glick presents a powerful indictment of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Perhaps the most damning part of her indictment pertains to Syria, where Obama’s impotence in the face of...
View ArticleThe Clinton Foundation’s man in Cairo was also the Muslim Brotherhood’s
The Washington Free Beacon reports that a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until fairly recently, was employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation, was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged...
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