horse of george

Is the failure of so many to see that the least bad choice in Egypt is to work with the military an indication that the West is indeed doomed, governed as it seemingly is by the clueless? Or is it a reflection of fact that for whatever reason one wants to name [shallow liberal sentiment run amok] we can't bring ourselves to see that Islamism is every bit as much a threat [hold on there, big fella] to Western interests as communism once was [and still is viz China] and acknowledge that there was a time when a 'coup' that ousted a communist rival would have been reluctantly welcomed and hopefully 'managed' by us and that's probably the way we should be approaching the mess in Egypt? Or is this simply a case of me and people who think like me being unevolved cretins?

I'm reminded of something Peter Wehner wrote the other day about the Obama presidency and foreign policy:

Barack Obama promised that if he were elected president he would “remake” the world. He has; and America is paying a terrible price for it.

And I think also how yesterday Erdogan, Obama's bestest buddy in the world, a kindred spirit one assumes of Dear Leader, blamed the upheaval in Egypt on an Israeli scheme, just as he blamed anti-Islamist upheaval in his own country on Zionist skulduggery - and this is the man Obama had the wise foresight to blackmail Netanyahu into apologizing to for a security operation that required absolutely no apology.

Ah, the Obama presidency, truly a Golden Era in the making - if one is lucky enough to be a simpleton - or a liberal, which of course... well... enough said.