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WHO LOST EGYPT?
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 29, 2011
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In the 1950s, the accusation "who lost China" resonated
throughout American politics and led to the defeat of the
Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1952. Unless
President Obama reverses field and strongly opposes letting the
Muslim brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit with the
modern equivalent of the 1952 question: Who Lost Egypt?
The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its
lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic
fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the
government of Egypt fall. The Obama Administration, in failing
to throw its weight against an Islamic takeover, is guilty of
the same mistake that led President Carter to fail to support
the Shah, opening the door for the Ayatollah Khomeini to take
over Iran.
The United States has enormous leverage in Egypt - far more than
it had in Iran. We provide Egypt with upwards of $2 billion a
year in foreign aid under the provisos of the Camp David Accords
orchestrated by Carter. The Egyptian military, in particular,
receives $1.3 billion of this money. The United States, as the
pay master, needs to send a signal to the military that it will
be supportive of its efforts to keep Egypt out of the hands of
the Islamic fundamentalists. Instead, Obama has put our
military aid to Egypt "under review" to pressure Mubarak to mute
his response to the demonstrators and has given top priority to
"preventing the loss of human life."
President Obama should say that Egypt has always been a friend
of the United States. He should point out that it was the first
Arab country to make peace with Israel. He should recall that
President Sadat, who signed the peace accords, paid for doing so
with his life and that President Mubarak has carried on in his
footsteps. He should condemn the efforts of the Muslim
Brotherhood extremists to take over the country and indicate
that America stands by her longtime ally. He should address the
need for reform and urge Mubarak to enact needed changes. But
his emphasis should be on standing with our ally.
The return of Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the former
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has to
Egypt as the presumptive heir to Mubarak tells us where this
revolution is headed. Carolyn Glick, a columnist for the
Jerusalem Post, explains how dangerous ElBaradei is. "As IAEA
head," she writes, "Elbaradei shielded Iran's nuclear weapons
program from the Security Council. He [has] continued to lobby
against significant UN Security Council sanctions or other
actions against Iran...Last week, he dismissed the threat of a
nuclear armed Iran [saying] 'there is a lot of hype in this
debate'."
As for the Muslim Brotherhood, Glick notes that "it forms the
largest and best organized opposition to the Mubarak regime and
[is] the progenitor of Hamas and al Qaidi. It seeks Egypt's
transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the
forefront of the global jihad."
Now is the time for Republicans and conservatives to start
asking the question: Who is losing Egypt? We need to debunk the
starry eyed idealistic yearning for reform and the fantasy that
a liberal democracy will come from these demonstrations. It
won't. Iranian domination will.
Egypt, with 80 million people, is the largest country in the
Middle East or North Africa. Combined with Iran's 75 million
(the second largest) they have 155 million people. By contrast
the entire rest of the region -- Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Iraq,
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, UAE, Lebanon,
Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar combined-- have only 200 million.
We must not let the two most populous and powerful nations in
the region fall under the sway of Muslim extremism, the one
through the weakness of Jimmy Carter and the other through the
weakness of Barack Obama.
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