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On Dec 7, 10:41 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel Greenfield article: Obama and Morsi: Separated at > Birth<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > > **** > > [image: Link to Sultan Knish] <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/>**** > ------------------------------ > > *Obama and Morsi: Separated at > Birth*<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesB...> > **** > > Posted: 05 Dec 2012 09:58 PM PST**** > > In Cairo, Morsi scribbles his decrees and in Washington DC, Obama scribbles > his. There is an ocean between the two men, but there is a good deal that > they have in common. Both are ideologues who piggybacked on public outrage > over the national impact of international economic declines to climb to > power and pursue their true agendas.**** > > *[image: > cid:7C6BED81-FD39-4888-B20C-E160E5E3F066]*<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PgUXHqc3hEE/UMAy-uuBnhI/AAAAAAAAKUQ/-_Vg4xe...> > **** > > Without worries about the price of bread, the odds are good that Mubarak > would be sitting in his old place and Morsi would be looking over the > latest economic reports from the Brotherhood's business networks and front > groups. And without a sharp decline in American living standards, Mubarak > would be receiving phone calls from President McCain urging him to > democratize Egypt, while Obama would be rallying the troops at the latest > SEIU event for taking back Congress. > > Times of crisis are political hunting grounds for extremist groups whose > ideologies would otherwise be unpalatable. Angry people are more willing to > accept the previously unacceptable to shake up the system and punish those > that they blame for their economic situation. They are in the long run, > only punishing themselves, but the long run rarely wins elections. The > short run however is the all-time ballot box winner. > > But the problem with running on the old Bolshy platform of "Land, Bread and > Peace" is that the people eventually expect you to deliver at least two of > three. And ideologues are not interested in empowering people. They will > hand out subsidized freebies to their supporters to win elections, but they > won't empower them economically, outside their network of subsidies, and > peace is never on the table with folks who believe utopia is just a hundred > years of war away. > > There is a point midway between the cheering for hope and change, and the > complete consolidation of power in the hands of a tyrannical system when > the tyrant is vulnerable. That window is the one that opens when the people > begin realizing that there is no land, bread or peace on the horizon. Their > eyes haven't opened, but their patience has run out. > > Morsi has tried to cut the duration of the window as narrowly as possibly > by moving quickly to consolidate his power, but that brought on a second > crisis and a wave of popular protests. Triggering those protests > prematurely may have been his plan, but that plan may have also backfired. > The only way to tell will be retroactively. > > Obama's ObamaCare power grab was generally held to be premature, but even > though the majority continues to oppose it, the man behind the program > survived an election thanks to a hurricane and plenty of voter fraud. Morsi > may similarly be able to survive his own power grab. An Islamist is, if > nothing else, absolutely immune from the sort of human emotions that > animate normal leaders. > > The advantage of being an ideologue is that you simply do not care what > infidels think and anyone who is not a member of your mental club is an > infidel. Transnationalists, whether of the leftist or Islamist flavor, are > men who live without a country. Their country is an imaginary global > utopia, the infinite Reich of dreams, the Caliphate of their conspiracies > and the World Revolution that can never be. > > That disregard is what allows men like Obama and Morsi to survive the > widespread hatred and contempt of a country, to sneeringly dismiss it, and > get on with the program of taking it over. Bush and Mubarak could be hurt > by how their own countrymen saw them. But Obama is not an American and > Morsi is not an Egyptian. Obama is a Progressive and Morsi is an Islamist. > Their approach to anyone outside that circle is limited to distinguishing > between potential converts and useful idiots. **** > > *[image: > cid:7F38156A-8395-40F5-B831-AC4B0147C14A]*<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTa0oCPU410/UMAzLIA5o4I/AAAAAAAAKUY/UlrUhZL...> > **** > > Bad leaders can be protested out of office. Ideologues can only be forced > out of office. And that isn't easy. Any movement with enough money, skills > and leverage to take their man all the way to the top is not going to fold > just because the streets are full of protesters or because legal action is > being taken against them. The cadre of such movements consists of men with > no regard for any of laws of a society and who are entirely willing to > destroy a country rather than give it up. > > America in the 1950s briefly woke up to the fact that any measure had to be > taken to keep the Reds away from power... or there would be no America > left. Egyptians understood this about the Muslim Brotherhood all along and > took many of those measures, until we forced Egypt to dismantle its > defenses, as we dismantled our own. Obama and Morsi are the consequences of > that unilateral disarmament. > > Obama and Morsi are not individuals, they are the representatives of > political movements that have spent the better part of a century clambering > to power. Their brushes with the law have made them cunning and their rise > to power after so long have fed their sense of historical destiny. To them > these are more than momentary political triumphs, but the culmination of > history. They do not see ballot boxes, but the inevitable march of progress > and prophecy that must be fulfilled by any means necessary. > > It is not surprising that Obama and Morsi, two men who hail from the same > continent and a related cultural milieu, have gotten along so well with one > another. Their interests do not precisely align, but they can appreciate a > colleague working in the same field of revolution. But the mutual > friendship may prove to be more harmful to Morsi than to Obama. > > While conservatives and counterjihadists denounce Obama for his support for > Morsi, until Morsi goes the way of Iran and begins seizing American > hostages, most Americans will simply not care. Egyptians, on the other > hand, like most of the region, have the usual Anti-American instincts and > the same Gaza ceasefire that won Morsi a blank check from Obama to do as he > wished domestically also convinced many Egyptians that Morsi was Obama's > poodle. > > The same window that prevents Morsi from exerting total control over the > country, also prevents him from making a complete break with America. Morsi > needed Obama to bail out the Egyptian economy and now Obama is dragging > Morsi down. Positive views of America fell to 19 percent in Egypt in 2012 > making Anti-Americanism into a viable proposition. Not that it ever wasn't. > > Morsi however also has the same ace in the deck as Obama. Class warfare. > Islamists reliably draw their support from the poor. The Muslim > Brotherhood's background was linked to feudal landholders, but it has > successfully reinvented itself as the party of the rural fellaheen. The > flow of the rural poor into Turkey's major cities allowed the Islamist AKP > to take over Turkey. And Morsi is not proposing a referendum because he > expects to lose. > > Americans weren't ready for a reversal after four years. Will Egyptians be > ready to cast down Morsi after a much shorter period? > > Obama's work has taken longer and gone slower because there is much more of > it to do. America started out at a higher point than Egypt and it will take > it a while to hit bottom. Morsi has less to dismantle and is working > against lower expectations in a country where freedom is a slogan, not a > tangible experience. > > The 21st Century has been surprisingly good to Islamists and leftists. The > fall of the Soviet Union opened a power vacuum that the Islamists filled > and allowed the left to sell its agenda in a world where the gulag was no > longer a relevant term. Of the two groups the leftists have a shorter > future, at least in areas that fall under Islamist control, but their > Islamist alliances have also given them a new lease on life.**** > > *[image: > cid:919698BB-AD1A-4D5D-92C6-BD32B4A3C1A0]*<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gaVKDPUl0ss/UMAz_B3WA8I/AAAAAAAAKUg/ebRlZe6...> > **** > > The leftists have taught class warfare to the Islamists and the Islamists > have revived the left's critiques of foreign policy as imperialism by > providing them with a global identity group that fills the hole left behind > by the end of the Cold War. It is not surprising then to see Obama and > Morsi working so well together... or following the same path. > > Transnationalist movements are predatory. They strike at a weak period in a > nation's history with the aim of tearing apart the country. But a country > so weak and dissolute as to remain under the dominion of transnationalist > movements is also too corrupted to be very much use. The Communists could > never make much of Russia or China. It took a transition to capitalism to > do that. And the only thing that transnationalists will be able to make of > America or Egypt is to harness both countries for the sheer manpower and > the leftover weapons. > > Obama, Morsi and the forces behind them have power, but they have no > future. Their reign can only end in one of two ways. Either the country > becomes vigorous enough to cast them off and rebuild, or it will not, and > the Islamists and the leftists will go down into the darkness with it. > Every utopian dream sooner or later ends in a nightmare. The question is > whether it will be a nightmare only for the leftist and Islamist movements > or for the countries that they take over.**** > > Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a > Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[image: > cid:C4B51A95-DA2E-46F7-9282-31CEA56CCDAA]**** > > *[image: > cid:84ACE4A9-EB6C-4232-B10B-AA368D75D566]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > *[image: > cid:F406443C-3130-467B-B2EF-A41519E8B782]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > *[image: > cid:A7FBA755-40E3-45CA-A950-CC4A8006498E]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > *[image: > cid:EF226CA5-FA39-4EB6-ACEA-66C71BF78D36]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > *[image: > cid:73D8DAC9-640F-409A-8B23-93709A495F5A]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > *[image: > cid:C550A417-C5B0-4021-945B-AB10512EAD22]*<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > **** > > [image: cid:C4B51A95-DA2E-46F7-9282-31CEA56CCDAA]**** > > ** ** > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > feedburner email image.jpg > 20KViewDownload > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > muslimcommunism.jpg > 212KViewDownload > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews.gif > 1KViewDownload > > 1348878851014.cached-450x323.jpg > 24KViewDownload > > 3pPmc3uAzIc.gif > < 1KViewDownload > > obama-chin-up_large.jpg > 13KViewDownload -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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