Let's just get right to it, shall we?
America Must Stand With Her Ally Egypt
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's statement on the crisis.
by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter
01/28/2011
http://www.humanevents.com/...
The Egyptian demonstrations are not the equivalent of Iran's 2009 Green Revolution. The Egyptian demonstrations are the reprise of Iran's 1979 radical revolution.
First off, I wonder if McCotter understands the political history behind the 1979 revolution in Iran. This was largely our fault for installing the Shah over a previously democratically-elected government.
Of course that government had the nerve to say their natural resources were the property of the people of Iran and not the corporate interests of Britain and the USA. So we backed a corrupt regime that finally caused the radical revolution of 1979.
So McCotter is technically correct that the people are revolting against a similar autocrat, but not for radical Muslim beliefs, but because they cannot do simple things, like feed their family.
This is mindboggling in the fact he could get history so wrong since we have a hand in both events.
Thus, America must stand with her ally Egypt to preserve an imperfect government capable of reform; and prevent a tyrranical government capable of harm.
Wait a minute, are you saying that current autocrat hasn't been using terror to keep his people in check? And that he is not a tyrant? The people of Egypt would like a word with you.
For if Egypt is radicalized, all of the reforms sought by the Egyptian people and supported by the United States with them - including consensual and constitutional government; free elections; open and unbridled media; and Egyptian control of their natural resources - will be lost. Nascent democratic movements in the region will be co-opted and radicalized. The world's free and open access to the Suez Canal's vital commercial shipping lanes will be choked. And the Sinai Accord between Egypt and Israel - which must be protected as the foundation and principal example for Mideast peace - will be shredded.
I wonder if McCotter realizes Mubarak has been "President" for 30 years and was currently trying to install his son as the future "President". This doesn't sound very constitutional to me, or much of a free election. In fact, any political opponent of Mubarak has been jailed, or worse, for defying his autocratic rule.
As for open and unbridled media, does McCotter not get that turning off the internet is the most base form of information control?
And as for the Suez Canal, Egypt is not stupid nor a child. They know the international importance of the infrastructure that the canal provides. Does McCotter have any idea how much money in trade Egypt makes off that? Why would they punch their cash cow in the face?
And why does he think the Sinai Accord would be shredded? Egypt doesn't want a humanitarian crisis anymore than Israel. Shredding of the Sinai Accord would cause so much chaos and suffering in the Gaza strip that the current occupation hardships would look like a picnic.
Again, McCotter must be pressed if he has any idea what he is even talking about here.
Though many will be tempted to superficially interpret the Egyptian demonstrations as an uprising for populist democracy, they must recall how such similar initial views of the 1979 Iranian Revolution were belied by the mullahs' radical jackbooted murderers, who remain bent upon grasping regional hegemony and nuclear weaponry.
Actually, the jackbooted murders of Mubarack are the cause of this popular uprising. Someone fax the story of Khaled Saeed to McCotter stat! And for the record, the Muslim Brotherhood has been pretty quiet through this whole affair.
This might be because their leaders are currently in jail, or the fact that is not being lead by clerics. It is being lead by the men and women of Egypt who cannot feed their families, have no prospects for work and have suffered under yoke of a despot for thirty years.
Very different build ups to the revolts, but McCotter obviously loves autocrats, and is willing to allay himself with them in the name of democracy.
It hurts the brain to make sense of his stance, but moving on.
In this crisis, the American people deserve candor and action from President Obama, and President Hosni Mubarak and General Tantwai.
This is not a nostalgic "anti-colonial uprising" from within, of all places, the land of Nassar. Right now, freedom's radicalized enemies are subverting Egypt and other our allies.
First off, we are no longer the world's police. We're broke, and President Bush pretty much destroyed any moral high ground we had, especially in the Middle East. And why the Biblical reference?
Is McCotter incapable of thinking about this in secular terms? Can he not grasp that Mubarak broke the most basic rule of being an autocrat? That he must keep bread in the belly of the oppressed?
This is not a radical cleric lead revolt, it is every day people, people like you and I, who are demanding basic human decency. If a man or woman cannot feed their child due to the actions of their government, then why must they bow down to that government?
McCotter wants to paint this in an absurd religious image to justify he's wont to side with a dictator who unduly suppresses his people for personal gain. Then again it makes since, since he is a Republican.
Inexcusably, this crisis has been hastened and exacerbated by the U.S. Administration's refusal to whole-heartedly embrace Iran's truly democratic 2009 Green Revolution. Make no mistake: strategically and cynically, freedom's radicalized enemy is exploiting a real religion to undermine liberty and true reform just as Soviet communism posed as a secular creed to obtain the same illegitimate ends.
If we fail to meet today's enemy on the same determined, principled terms, we will too late awake in a nightmare world. But, if today's enemy is steadfastly met and bested, liberty and the rule of law will be unleashed for millions throughout the world.
McCotter should check the Wikileaks cables, the Bush and Obama Administration have been backing the leaders of this popular revolt for three years.
Now here is where the disconnect becomes, well, earth-shattering stupid.
So in order to unleash liberty and rule of law on the people of Egypt we must back a despot who has kept the people under his thumb by use of violence for 30 years?
Really?
REALLY?
I just don't know what to say.
Maybe a member of the press could ask McCotter that last question of mine, and if he speaks for a majority of the Republican Party.
Or he if he is just alone in his love for dictatorships.