Friday, September 7, 2012

Pour All the Sugar and Honey You Want on Obama-"Owned" Crappy Foreign Policy, Obamamaniacs. It Still Stinks to High Heavan

While candidate Obama in his '08 incarnation had no foreign policy experience to speak of, four years later he has his political party own that bailiwick claim his media cheerleaders. This, for instance, is from Slate:
The conventions these past two weeks—and particularly the final speeches Thursday night—have cemented the fact that the Democratic party is now the party of national-security policy; not just a wise or thoughtful foreign and military policy, but any kind of thinking whatsoever about matters beyond the water’s edge.
David Horowitz argues, however, that their "leadership" (ha!) in this arena has been neither thoughtful nor wise. What it has been is stupid, supine and stupendously ineffectual:
In a series of foreign policy disasters the Obama Administration has assisted the Muslim Brotherhood in transforming the Arab Spring in the Middle East into an Islamist winter, beginning with the toppling of an allied regime in Egypt and the accession to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its expansion throughout the region. In August, the new Egyptian president sacked his military commanders, abrogated the Constitution, and assumed dictatorial powers greater than those possessed by his predecessor, and transforming Egypt into an Islamist state. Opponents of the dictatorship were crucified – literally nailed to crosses – in front of the government headquarters. It was the Brotherhood’s way of dramatizing its intentions to turn Egypt into a Medieval totalitarian state. 
This was exactly what the American State Department had assured the world the Muslim Brotherhood would not do as it paved the way for the Brotherhood’s accession to power. The intelligence chief of the Obama White House had officially described the Muslim Brotherhood as a “moderate” and “secular” organization, which had embraced democratic and constitutional government.

The betrayal of these promises, and the violation of every principle the American government claimed to be supporting in the Middle East’s most important state, took place without a word of protest from the American government or the American Secretary of State.

As it happens the chief adviser on Muslim affairs to the American Secretary of State is Huma Abedin, one of whose mentors was the Nazi imam, Yusef Qaradawi. Abedin is an operative for the Muslim Brotherhood and a lifelong servant of its agendas. In the twelve years directly proceeding her hiring by the U.S. Government, where she became deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, Abedin worked for Abdullah Omar Naseef, one of the principal financiers of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and a Muslim Brotherhood eminence. Huma Abedin’s mother and brother are Muslim Brotherhood leaders, as was her father before them.
Four more years of Hill 'n' Huma 'n' Obama White House haplessness? Are you joking? That sounds about as sane--and about as appealing--as tapping Yusuf Qaradawi to be Janet Napolitano's successor as head of Homeland Security. Or maybe asking Omar Khadr to be Canada's next ambassador to the U.N.

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