horse of george

Very disturbing US response to what's going on in Egypt - latest, Rand Paul going on about how we should have cut economic aid to the country once the supposed 'coup' happened - Paul is like a conservative version of liberal idiocy, ever willing to distort reality in order to promote ideological claims. Tell me, do you really think that if the Muslim Brotherhood had had full support of the military when vast 'democratic' protests rose up against them that they wouldn't have responded with violence as well? Is that the absurdity Paul is trying to promote? These people are addled by delusion. Simple fact is democracy cannot coexist with absolutist claims, nobody wants to say that because no one wants to be seen impugning Islam, but the reality exists regardless of the tendency of the chattering class to behave in foolish and cowardly ways. What is happening in Egypt was entirely predictable and if you didn't see it coming it probably means you have an agenda that is detached from reality - trying to fit Islamism and democracy together will result in one of three things: a faux democracy run by an Islamist oligarchy; a faux democracy run by a militarized oligarchy; or an outright tyranny run by either. That is the reality here, and America couldn't come out and say it because under the entirely stupefied idiocy of Obama's Muslim outreach the truth is a curse to be avoided at all costs.