Friday, January 28, 2011
Egypt
Teh Alexandrian Mob
President Hosni Mubarak imposed a curfew and ordered troops to back up police as they struggled to control crowds who flooded the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday to demand that he step down.
Here’s the help from The Progs:
From the Daily Beast, we have this helpful article: Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood [Yahoo link]
...what [Seymour
Butts] Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar…“how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government.” ...
...That’s the attitude. We’re gonna change mosques into cathedrals. That’s an attitude that pervades, I’m here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command [JSOC].”
He further claimed that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven and others in the JSOC were members of the “Knights of Malta” and “Opus Dei,” two little known Catholic orders.
“They do see what they’re doing—and this is not an atypical attitude among some military—it’s a crusade, literally,”
All right—back to the world of Smart Diplomacy™:
“We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protesters,” Clinton said at the State Department, adding that the protesters also should avoid violence.
“We urge the Egyptian government to allow peaceful protests, and to reverse the unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications,” she said. Internet service in Egypt has been blocked almost completely, according to reports from the country.
Describing the United States as “a partner” with Egypt, Clinton urged Mubarak’s government “to engage immediately” with the Egyptian people on economic, political and social reforms.
Do I remember some other administration that waffled on a revolution in the M-East? That turned out well, right?
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