In just a few short weeks, the Muslim Brotherhood have completely taken over that coup in Egypt. I remember having this very argument with someone on Facebook. Every leftist in the world argued that no, this time it was different. The magical Internet would prevent Egypt from turning into another thuggish theocracy. Hosni Mubarak was an evil dictator that the U.S. was wrong for supporting. It was this type of ruthless dictator that made us look bad in the eyes of the more civilized world at large. It never occurred to those leftists, that like the Shaw of Iran, Mubarak was just as tough as he needed to be in order to prevent the constant threat of an Islamist takeover from being realized. That losing Mubarak in Egypt, much like losing the Shaw in Iran would lead to a much more brutal and even more dangerous threat to the peaceful people of the world at large. It’s not like this should be a surprise to anyone, as a lot of us predicted this inevitability right from the start.
I hear crickets from the left in this country. They have moved onto their next great disaster to inflict upon the world, Libya. (Libya, by the way is a direct result of the disaster in Egypt, as this revolution was actually ordered up by Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Who we were all told by the Obama Administration were just a group of harmless social workers.) This is one of the things which irks me the most about the left, never is responsibility accepted for the catastrophe caused by their reckless policies. How do we go back in time to undo the election of President Obama so that the world would be a safer place than it is today. We as a nation are still dealing with the mess created by both the Carter and Clinton Presidencies. Carter gave us Iran and Afghanistan. Clinton gave us Bosnia, Sudan, and Somalia. Projecting American weakness around the world has consequences.
Now that Libya is on the table, and it is the exact wrong thing for us to be involving ourselves in it, we are limping in, weak handed, and already deflecting responsibility to others. Replacing a cowed evil dictator for even more crazed evil thugs will not serve our interests in the slightest. Don’t get me wrong here, I am all for fighting the inevitable fight against militant Islam. This is going to occur at some point during our future, and when we finally take it on, we had better win. This fight in Libya however, is strengthening the enemy of that future battle. President Obama is either an enemy of the United States, or the single most incompetent person on the face of the planet. It does not matter to me which is true, he simply has to go.
Elections have consequences, and we are now reaping the consequences of November 2008. For those of my fellow conservatives who sat out the last one because you couldn’t find it within yourselves to pull the lever for McCain, I sympathize, but you were dead wrong. Even if the McCain clone Romney wins the nomination in 2012, please reconsider.
Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
