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Posted by David Fairthorne on Fri Feb 11 14:20:28 2011, in response to Re: Mubarak Flies The Coop!, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Feb 11 09:10:21 2011. We are, unwillingly again, parties to a long twilight struggle, this time with Islamism - most notably Iran, its proxies and its potential allies, Sunni and Shiite. We should be clear-eyed about our preferred outcome - real democracies governed by committed democrats - and develop policies to see this through.It's one thing for Charles Krauthammer to express a preferred outcome, but quite another to say how to achieve such an outcome. Pursuit of the "freedom agenda" runs the risk of extremist Islamist theocracies coming to power. The Muslim Brotherhood claims to be opposed to Islamic extremism, but can it be trusted? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_brotherhood: "In the group's belief, the Quran and Sunnah constitute a perfect way of life and social and political organization that God has set out for man. Islamic governments must be based on this system and eventually unified in a Caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood's goal, as stated by Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was to reclaim Islam’s manifest destiny, an empire, stretching from Spain to Indonesia." George W. Bush's "freedom agenda" didn't work out too well in Iraq, or anywhere else so far as I know. In the case of Egypt, pursuit of the freedom agenda could result in the Muslim Brotherhood forming an Islamic Republic of Egypt. The alternative is to support the corrupt and dictatorial Mubarak regime, which is the policy of most of Egypt's neighbors, including Israel. |
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