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"Egypt’s military and its Saudi backers are aghast at
American stupidity." Meaning Obama and McCain.
8/15/13, "America’s Problems in the Middle East Are Just Beginning," Spengler, pj media
"It’s 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed
by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion of the
Jews from Israel. Iran, meanwhile, smuggles shoulder-fired anti-aircraft
missiles to terrorist cells in Palestine that can take down civilian
airlines at Ben-Gurion Airport. With backing from the Egyptian military,
Fatah throws out the elected Hamas government and kills a large number
of Hamas supporters.
What will Washington do? Given the track record of
both the Obama administration and the Republican mainstream, one would
expect America to denounce the use of violence against a democratically
elected government.
Such is the absurdity of both parties’ stance towards Egypt: the
Egyptian military is doing America’s dirty work, suppressing a
virulently anti-modern, anti-Semitic and anti-Western Islamist movement
whose leader, Mohammed Morsi, famously referred to Israelis as “apes and
pigs.” It did so with the enthusiastic support of tens of millions of
Egyptians who rallied in the streets in support of the military. And the
American mainstream reacted with an ideological knee jerk. America’s
presence in the Middle East has imploded....
As Syria disintegrates, along with Iraq and Lebanon, the
artificial borders of Arab states drawn first by Ottoman conquerors and
revised by British and French colonial authorities will have small
meaning. Palestinians caught up in the Syrian and and Lebanese
conflagrations will pour into a new Palestinian state and swell the
ranks of the hard-core Jihadi irredentists. Iran will continue to use
Hamas as a cat’s paw.
Among other things, the American response to the events in Egypt
shows the utter pointlessness of American security guarantees in the
present negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Authority....Whoever makes peace with Israel will require a free hand
with Iranian-backed rejectionists.
America forgets that it corrected the flaw in its founding by killing
30 percent of Southern men of military age during its own Civil War, so
many that the Confederate Army collapsed for lack of manpower. There
are numerous wars which do not end until all the young men who want to
fight to the death have had the opportunity to do so. And of all of
history’s conflicts, none was so likely to end with this sort of
demographic attrition as the present war in the Middle East. Compared to
the young Arabs, Persians and Pakistanis of today, American Southerners
of 1861 were models of middle-class rectitude, with the world’s highest
living standards and bright prospects for the future.
The Europeans of
1914 stood at the cusp of modernity; one only can imagine what they
might have accomplished had they not committed mutual suicide in two
World Wars.
Today’s Middle Eastern and South Asian Muslims have grim future
prospects. The world economy has left them behind, and they cannot catch
up. Egypt was at the threshold of starvation and economic collapse when
the military intervened, bringing in subsidies from the Gulf
monarchies. The young men of the Middle East have less to lose, perhaps,
than any generation in any country in modern times. As we observe in
Syria, large numbers of them will fight to the death.
America cannot bear to think about its own Civil War because the
wounds are too painful; in order to reunite the country after 1865, we
concocted a myth of tragic fratricide. Wilsonian idealism was born of
the South’s attempt to suppress its guilt for the war, I have argued in the past.
That is an academic consideration now. America’s credibility in the
Middle East, thanks to the delusions of both parties, is broken, and it
cannot be repaired within the time frame required to forestall the next
stage of violence. Egypt’s military and its Saudi backers are aghast at
American stupidity. Israel is frustrated by America’s inability to
understand that Egypt’s military is committed to upholding the peace
treaty with Israel while the Muslim Brotherhood wants war. Both Israel
and the Gulf States observe the utter fecklessness of Washington’s
efforts to contain Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
The events of the past week have demonstrated that America’s allies
in the Middle East from Israel to the Persian Gulf can trust no one in
Washington — neither Barack Obama nor John McCain. Those of us in
America who try to analyze events in the region will be the last to hear
the news, and the value of our work will diminish over time." via Michael Savage
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