Note: we tried to publish a quickly written post in this article just before running out the door on our way to wrestling practice. I should know better. I already have more typos than I should allow. It does not help to get in a hurry and skip over or rush the review process. Apologies. This has been rewritten for grammar and content. ---- jds (1/28/2011).
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Just a brief on what is happening in the Middle East, as we write this post. In short, it looks as if Obama's policy of sitting on his foreign policy hands is about to blow up in his (our) face. Understand that "sitting on his . . . hands" is not half the problem. What seems to be more the issue is this: as leader of the free world, Obama has no clue as to how to act in a world full of Freedom's enemies.
Syria, the Sudan, and Iran remain terrorist states in opposition to Israel and the United States.
The past week has seen a Radical Muslim (Hezbollah) takeover of Lebanon and, now, first reports have the "Egyptian dictatorship" [Actually, this is Yahoo terms; the Egyptian leader is an elected office] being driven from that country last night or early this morning, with radical Muslim groups poised to take over that government. As of this writing, the Muslim Brotherhood has not yet gotten involved, but it is feared that its ministers will call for involvement with the protesters.
Update: apparently, the presidential family left Egypt. The President, Hosni Mubarak, remains in the country doing the business of a president. Mubarak is as pro-West as Arab leadership gets. He is grooming his son to take his place, should that time come in the near future. The Egyptian presidency is an elected office, as mentioned above. But, it is a position held up by military strength and the use of force. Mubarak is in his fifth term, beginning with 1981. The Telegraph UK.co. is reporting that Mubarak fled the country for a few days, during the height of the student led riots, but returned some time yesterday.
When it is all said and done, we may be looking at the most serious developing crisis in Israel's history. Before Hezbollah took over Lebanon, last week, that country was considered "moderate" and pro-Western. If that has changed, the Middle East politic has changed in a bad way for the United States and Israel. If Egypt is added into the mix, the impact may prove to be disastrous for Western alliances.
Understand that Obama has not helped the situation. He has given more than a billion dollars in aid to Hamas, in Gaze. We are reminded of his Cairo speech, in which he framed Israel as an invading force and "occupier" of the West Bank. He has sat by, watching Iran become a nuclear power, without doing anything of consequence about that issue. You might argue that he has installed "sanctions" against that country to which we remind you of the 220 corporate exceptions to that rule of sanctions. He has repeatedly and publicly humiliated Israel leadership, and, to this day, has not set foot in Israel since winning the 2008 election.
We are looking at an explosive situation in the Middle East for which Obama's inexperience is proving to be more than a problem. Without Lebanon and, especially Egypt, the Middle East will become our most aggressive enemy.
Understand that by all accounts, Islam remains committed to the total abolition of the nation of Israel. And our president either has no clue, or is sitting on his hands with purposeful intent.
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