Allowing the collectivist crossover between international leftism and political Islamism to color your judgment when it comes to building backroom alliances, and so turning the world into a much more dangerous place for liberty. That, and fetishizing “optics” over difficult choices and actual leadership.
Or maybe the real danger to the US is Sarah Palin defending herself against charges of proxy murder and using the phrase “blood libel in a way that is terribly, terribly uncivil.
(thanks to Pablo)
FREEDOM!
I’m pretty sure it’s Glenn Beck with all his fearmongering about the middle east insurrections. But then, I hear the two of them are engaged in some sort of conspiracy.
You Tube vids exhaust the hamsters inside my Compu-Tor. Summary please.
Ferguson tends to one of the good guys.
He’s both one of the good guys and an incredibly fast talker, so any summary is going to leave out a lot: it was a torrent he brought forth there.
Ernst does it help to pause it and leave it to load for a while? It’s worth watching and as sdferr says, he lays out a LOT about the situation in and around Egypt, especially vis a vis America’s foreign policy incompetence.
There’s a line where she asks him about Hillary, and I so wish they’d had a camera on her when he answered it. Watch it if you possibly can. You’ll be glad you did.
Maybe we can resort to his Newsweak piece?
How did he wind up writing for Newsweek, anyway? Good piece though, but not quite as satisfying as the clip.
That dude just took a crap on all those weasels. A crap with a british accent with a dash of Scottish lilt. HA! Awesome!
He does lose credibility with the severe lack of “uh……” and “ummm…….” in his speech pattern.
I wonder if there are any Napoleons lurking in Egypt’s military council.
Not a summary, but the “call out”:
Sadly, this is what the osm and, ostensibly, the American public have accepted as a strategy.
Niall is being extremely unhelpful in this interview. In other words, it was a huge breeze of fresh air.
Off topic, but I ran yesterday for the first time in those Vibram five finger shoes.
Today I can hardly walk.
Just so you know.
Is it foot damage, or is it some foot tendons getting stretched that aren’t used to it?
Not that I’m a runner. My knees would go on strike.
I can’t afford that so I just put some huge mittens on my feet. I can’t walk today either.
PWNED.
I’m pretty sure it’s Glenn Beck with all his fearmongering about the middle east insurrections. But then, I hear the two of them are engaged in some sort of conspiracy.
They were born one day apart, so, you know.
And all conspiracy theories regarding the right are true and faithful, whereas speculating about what the international Left might be up to is balderdash and folderol. Especially if the speculation is based on following the money.
Only way that gets better is if he goes all ‘Merica, and starts out his opening response with, “Mika, you ignorant slut”. Barring that, maybe, “Aw, you poor moppet”. Or, “Oy! You stupid bint.” Would have like to heard “Bollox!” in there somewhere.
Either way he and Stein’s manner…the, “Christ, I’m talking to petulant, unlearned, bought and paid for idiots here” thing. What’s that cheesy Bond song? “Nobody Does it Better?”
Iran gets going again. This won’t stop I think.
Well, Bahrain, too. I think the international left is galvanizing around the Islamists and they are working together, each one thinking that their particular end game will emerge from the re-imagining of the middle east. Iran is the one place undergoing a “democracy movement” that doesn’t appear to be the product of some plan being carried out by our enemies. I mean, look where the uprisings are happening (with the exception of Iran): countries that work with the US and the West.
And our media cheers!
Coincidence? Not hardly. Look into Google and the social networking connections here. This is global community organizing, and I’ll bet the internation (and US) left has its fingerprints all over this.
Our media cheers alright. But as Rush pointed out, our media doesn’t carry much weight with the protesters in the streets of the middle east, who see things from their own perspectives. Whether they’re in the mass down with socialism as a program I don’t know; they may be, they may not. I’m not.
This.
Although they’ll be forced to alter their standard narrative a bit. In the middle east they can’t be as dismissive of religious ideas, concerns, or influences. Don’t get me wrong, it would play well to the swooning western media, but not so much with the in-country populations they are trying to radicalize.
Whether they’re in the mass down with socialism as a program I don’t know; they may be, they may not.
Given Egypt’s history, I’d say they’re not into Western socialism except to the degree that it consolidates all power in one place, which is what Islamists are into, as well.
So they’re likely not to care how it happens as long as it happens.
This is global community organizing, and I’ll bet the international (and US) left has its fingerprints all over this.
Now you’re sounding like Glenn Beck, only not as emphatic. He totally lost it last week, enraged by the complicity/stupidity of the MBM et al. for not recognizing what’s right in front of their faces.
I suspect — but cannot say for certain — that the secular liberal democrats among the Egyptian forces in the streets, people like Sandmonkey or Big Pharoah for instance, this newer fellow Wael Ghonim, and the more seasoned ones like Ayman Nour are more friendly toward European socialist tendencies than we are. These aren’t people inclined to the Bill Ayers’s view of the world though, I don’t think, yet these are the sorts on whom we classical liberals must pin our efforts. Same probably goes for the secular liberals in Iran fighting the theocracy. They will be behind the political times, is my guess. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be brought up to speed over time though, right along with two thirds of the American electorate.
link
Just what is Wade Rathke up to these days? Egypt.
Thanks for the link Pablo. I see they meet after the 6 months are up.
I’m getting that Manson vibe again. Hopefully someone will put a fork in it.
This hardly represents a significant problem for the international left. Look how the American wing has been able to infiltrate and co-opt whole swathes of the religious, even some evangelicals. Their duplicity knows no bounds, so it is simply a matter of polishing the patter to match the mark.
Thomas,
Since the left is ultimately motivated by Will to Power, I imagine they’ll be the ones co-opted, since the Islamist will to power is directed towards an End other than power for power’s sake.
Ernst, you are probably right, since not enough of the cannon fodder on the left will be willing to die for the cause, as compared to the Islamists. And, given their longer view, I suspect the Islamists have already taken their full measure of the international leftists and decided the marriage of convenience is one they can tolerate and outlast.
None of which means the international left has thought any of this through to the same conclusions. So much of the left is driven by spite, and like all reactionaries they have that way about them of falling into the ‘enemy of my enemy’ mistake.
I was in Bahrain for about 20 minutes once.
Umm, Stephanie, was that an intentional reference to Manson and sticking a fork in it?
Personally, I’d just as soon no forks were stuck anywhere but food.
NTTAWWT