The Arab Spring continues apace!
Meanwhile, “maverick” John McCain and putative GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney rush to congratulate Obama on his foreign policy successes.
Which, from where I sit, appears to be that Obama has routinely gotten behind movements that are toppling Arab strongmen and replacing them with Islamists and Islamic theocracies, just in time for Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, and just in time for a full US troop pullout from Iraq.
It’s all rather surreal.
To be fair, if you’re gonna go Theocracy™, go for the Islamist variety. They take any deviation seriously. Just ask the Saudi religious police, Taliban, various and sundry ayatollahs. Because you can’t ask those who’ve run afoul of the them, what with the stonings and executions and whatnot.
I figure they’re just moving the Overton Window. A year from now, the Obama regime will point overseas and pooh-pooh those calling the latest round of industry takeovers ‘fascist,’ saying “No, no, don’t be silly! We’re not killing people in broad daylight; we’re just taking over the remaining automakers and the banks and the airlines. It’s not like we’re Egypt or Libya or Iraq! Geez — get some perspective, you wingnuts!”
Is this another one of those “unexpected” things seems to crop up with unsurprising regularity for this administration? I’m kind of curious about that.
[…] “Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law” Which, from where I sit, appears to be that Obama has routinely gotten behind movements that are toppling Arab strongmen and replacing them with Islamists and Islamic theocracies, just in time for Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, and just in time for a full US troop pullout from Iraq. […]
– It’s only surreal and/or unexpected if you buy into the “Moderate, peace loving Muslim” myth.
– That fairytale will remain intact, bolstered daily by the MBM media’s ongoing propaganda designed to give the Left/O’bama cover at least until the next attack on Americans some place in the world.
– Then, of course, they’ll trot out some imagined grievance to justify the “poor, misunderstood” Islamists.
The wages of “leading from behind”…
Obama’s gots lots to do, what with getting ready for the 12th Iman to rise up out of that well anytime now, doncha know…..
I remember there was this movie about a little girl that came out of a well. Didn’t go to well for those who saw her, IIRC.
Thanks a lot, Mikey. Now we all have to copy your comment somewhere on teh intartubez or we’ll die in a week.
[Pedant] The proper form is, actually:
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I guess we can’t blame them so much, given that they haven’t been stuck reading the monthly bad news in US papers.
If you remember the phrase, “It’s All Bush’s Fault,” it will make more sense for you. McCain and Romney just are too stupid or myopic to recognize it (or maybe they just do not care).
I we look to ourselves and our own political organization, I think we have good reason to fear for the health of Libyan society in the near term, or for the hoped for Democratic-Republican institutions which we have known to be soon established among the Libyan peoples, as opposed to yet another dreary tyranny, whether theological or otherwise.
Yet, on the other hand, if we look to ourselves and our own political organization — a truly radical political organization when cast against the background of the history of political organizations, going back eons — we might also be somewhat hopeful on behalf of the Libyans, or the Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and so on, since after all, our radical, revolutionary political organization is still fairly young when seen in that eon’s old light: it’s still a new story — though as such, still under test, as we know all too well — still a new story spreading slowly, too slowly perhaps, but steadily across the world.
Of course, the outcome of that long view is as such the outcome of a view the end of which we cannot, by definition, know. Nevertheless, we may have only to ask, “has tyranny ever made the lot of human life better?” in the ways in which the political organization we have known — which we see slipping through our fingers today — has made the lot of human life better? That answer, I think, might be our best evidence.
1) Get behind movements that are toppling Arab strongmen and replacing them with Islamists and Islamic theocracies
2) Let Iran arm itself with nuclear weapons
3) Pull all US troops from Iraq
4) …
5)
PROFIT!DECLINE!It’s only surreal and/or unexpected if …
…you have been thinking that Glenn Beck and Mark Steyn and VDH and Andrew McCarthy are war-mongering zealots.
Tunisian elections set to empower Islamists.
Well, that should be just fine, right?
I hope he wasn’t getting behind this. Or is he taking credit for everything these days?
I like to give, DarthLevin.
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