Is Obama following the Carter strategy of fomenting unrest, then sitting by as America's enemies take over?

First the United States helps to undermine a stable but unpalatable ally. See "The American Left’s Role [the Obama left's role] in Leading Mid-East Regime Change."

Then we stand by and let America's enemies come to power in the aftermath. See "Clinton on Egypt: 'We're not advocating any specific outcome'."

Just as Carter did in Nicaragua and Iran. Undermining a stable but unpalatable ally COULD be tenable, but not in the absence of any plan or effort to guide the nation towards a superior alternative. So instead of the Shah and Somoza, we got the Stalinist Sandinistas and the Islamofascist Ayatollah. This time we could well get the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of al Qaeda).

Obama already propped up the Islamofascists in Iran

In the wake of Iran's stolen 2009 election, Obama said that the future of Iran had to be decided by Iranians, but he did not say it had to be decided by legitimate election. On the contrary, he called for letting the regime's legal process decide the matter and only asked that the Islamofascists try not to kill too many people in the process of enforcing their election theft:

My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. ...

I think it's important that, moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views.

Whatever the outcome of the election conflict might be, Obama expressed his determination to proceed with diplomatic engagement (i.e. with friendly concessions). To justify all this passivity, Obama invoked the assumption that the whole world hates America as much as he does. If we took the side of the Iranian people, it would only de-legitimize their cause:

I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football...

Thus obama left the field to the Islamofascists, insuring the failure of the side we should have backed: the Iranian majority.

Now after a public-private consortium of his own minions has helped to undermine the a psuedo-ally in Egypt, Obama seems to be doing the same thing. America will stay out of the aftermath (can't make ourselves the issue!) again leaving the field to the Islamofascists. Unlike Iran in 2009, the Islamofascists are not the challenged regime this time, but are one of the challengers: a small but organized sect, poised to steal the regime change, just as the Nicaraguan communists managed to do with Carter's help/acquiescence in 1979.

Carter's post-presidential career proves he favored the communists all along

Time has revealed Carter's post-presidential career as an elections monitor to have been in pursuit of legitimately elected Communism. I can't find the citation, but I once read a report from someone on the scene in Managua when Sandinista presidential candidate Daniel Ortega was defeated by Violeta Chamorro in the Carter facilitated Nicaraguan election of 1990. Carter reportedly spat a stream of the most bitter vituperation over the Communist defeat. The closest reference I can find is this statement from Steven Hayward that "Carter returned to the U.S. bitterly disappointed that his Sandinista pals had been turned out."

Since then Carter has given up on achieving a legitimate communist electoral victory and has become a shameless backer of communist election stealing. (Ibid.)

If Obama acquiesces in the rise to power of Muslim Brotherhood favorite El Baradei, it will be pretty clear that he is indeed pursuing the Carter strategy for advancing America's enemies.


UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long. Top Obama Middle-East advisor pens op-ed: "Don't fear Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood." Also, "US Ambassador in Cairo Margaret Scobey spoke on the phone today with Mohamed ElBaradei."

Too bad the American people were never apprised of the overwhelming evidence that Obama is actually a Muslim.

HAMAS "LAWMAKER" REARRESTED

The AFP, as is often the case, isn't providing very good coverage, but the news itself is important to note:

The Israeli army on Monday rearrested Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Jamal al-Natsh, five months after he was released from prison, Palestinian security officials said.

Natsh, 53, was arrested in the West Bank town of Hebron.

He spent eight years in detention, Palestinian officials said, during which time he ran elected for office.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said Natsh was rearrested "because he's a Hamas activist," but did not elaborate.

Israel has in recent months begun rearresting dozens of Palestinian MPs with the Islamist movement Hamas who were first detained in 2006 after Gaza militants seized Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

And the Hamas officials should be kept locked away, because they're hell-bent on Israel's destruction, and it helps in the war on terrorism.

ARIEL SHARON'S NOW IRRELEVANT VIEW OF EGYPT

The New York Sun has written about Ariel Sharon's POV of Egypt, but considering his act of defeatism and dhimmitude, I can only say that I wish I could appreciate this more than I do:

Some murmurs of surprise were heard. In theory, after all, Egypt and Israel had been at peace since Camp David. But the man who was about to become prime minister of Israel said that not only was Egypt the most hostile but it was also the most dangerous. It was the most populous Middle East country; it was influential in the Arab world. Egypt had something like 12 divisions in its Army alone, one of the 10 largest air forces in the world, and millions of males of military age. In recent years, it had been armed and trained by America. That worried him. He didn’t belittle the fact that some Egyptians were prepared to gamble on peace. But the gamble had cost President Sadat his life, and the peace had been cold. In the order of battle, the great strategist had his eye on Egypt.

As Egypt is engulfed in flames, we can’t help thinking of Ariel Sharon’s warning. He was prepared to treat with Mr. Mubarak, and did on a number of occasions, but he never had illusions about him. He was well aware of Mr. Mubarak’s machinations against Israel in the United Nations, of his agitation against Israel’s nuclear capacity, of the fact that if Egypt really wanted to stop the arms smuggling into Gaza it would have.

But now, almost 6 years after he expelled Jews from their homes, and even came dangerously close to uttering something anti-semitic when he said that there would be no Jews left in Gaza after what he did, I'm afraid Sharon's viewpoint is largely nullified. Especially after the Hamas ultimately took over the Gaza strip, and rockets were fired at Jewish residences, mainly in Ashkelon.

Based on this, I don't think the NY Sun is making much of an impact. Granted, the view of Islamofascism dominating Egypt and why it's dangerous is a very vital argument, but Sharon is no longer someone to look to for the explanations, as he trashed them shortly before he went comatose.

I would recommend Prof. Paul Eidelberg instead, as he spotted the problems too, and unlike Sharon, Eidelberg hasn't betrayed his principles.

MOVIE PRODUCER/TRUTHER ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES

FIGGERS.

MORE HERE.

JORDAN: Protesters call on government to resign

JORDAN IS NEXT.

BRRRRRRR! SEOUL SOUTH KOREA HAS COLDEST JANUARY IN 5 DECADES!

Seoul records coldest January in 5 decades

The grueling cold has been the talk of the town and it turns out this isn’t just a feeling people get whenever winter comes. In fact, the weather during January was the coldest in nearly five decades, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Monday.

IT AIN'T JUST NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE NORTHEASTERN USA, FOLKS.

IOW: AGW = TFBS - AND SO DOES MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE.

EL BARADEI WORKING FOR IRAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND PJM BY WEEKS

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Posted at 11:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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(USE THE BAYEFSKY LINK TO SEE A SMOKING GUN: BARADEI GETS MONEY FROM IRAN!)

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SPREAD THE WORD.

MAN SURVIVES 1000 FOOT PLUNGE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR AND FOX BY A DAY

HIOT AIR AND FOX TONIGHT.

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WARNING: it will take more than eliminating Mubarak to make Egyptians free...

... it will take utterly reforming or eliminating Islam and statism/socialism, too.

WHY IS THIS BASICALLY TRUE:

SIMPLE:

Prosperity is a by-product of liberty.

Tyranny in all of its forms leads to poverty because it squashes the free market.

People who are free to make and do what they want - and buy what they want, invariably make more and get create ever-improving value for the things people want.

Socialism, crony capitalism and corporatism are functionally just as bad as islamism because they all require a strong central state to inflict their choices upon people who are born free and inherently desirte to creat a life and pursue happiness in individual ways.

IOW: the islamic state and the socialist/liberal fascist state are BIRDS OF A FEATHER.

FACTS ILLUSTRATED HERE - (links to a previous post: "MAPPING GLOBAL POVERTY AND TYRANNY IS MAPPING ISLAM AND SOCIALISM")

HOW AL GORE COULD SAVE THE WORLD: ADMIT MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS FALSE

I AM SERIOUS.

Man-made climate-change - or anthropogenic climate change, or anthropogenic global warming - is what is driving the world to ruin.

HOW?

SIMPLE:

It's driving up the cost of everything including food. This is increasing global unemployment and national and international conflict.

ALL OVER A HOAX.

Oil is nearly TWICE as expensive now as in 2005, even though consumption/demand is only up 9%.

YUP: In 2005 the world consumed 77 billion barrels and in 2009 only 85 billion - but TODAY, the price is nearly twice as high.

SURE: the price isn't any where near the outrageous BUBBLE PRICE of 2008 (a bubble which helped push the USA and world into a horrific recession!).

Nevertheless, the price remains TOO DAMNED HIGH BASED ON DEMAND - especially if you consider that since 2006 BILLIONS MORE barrels of proven reserves have been located. OPEC had at least a 4% increase - and natural gas is in a global glut - we know have at least a 250 year reserve!! And Canadian oil sands and Brazil's off-shore finds have all increased the supply of proven global energy reserves.

One of the MAJOR reasons THE PRICE OF OIL IS TOO DAMN HIGH is ... Al Gore.

Well... er um: not just oil, but ALL ENERGY! And food. YUP: 2 of our most basic needs.

Yup: Gore and his army of alarmists dupes and alarm-exploiters have successfully raised the cost of ALL ENERGY (and also FOOD because crops once reaped for food are now reaped for industrial energy).

Costs for all manufacturing has gone up as a result - and manufactured goods, margins have declined for many, and the cost of living has suffered a double whammy: goods are more expensive and so is food.

Al Gore can stop this INSANITY by admitting AGW was all wrong.

Carbon taxes and other subsidies for so-called "green energy and the so-called green economy would vanish - meaning governments could cut deficits and this would immediately help lower interest rates.

The use of CHEAP COAL could once again be increased, and quickly - thus lowering energy costs for everyone - including all industry.

Food costs will come down for two reasons: more supply of food, and fertilizers (which need a lot of energy to be manufactured) would become cheaper again.

People would immediately feel wealthier as gas prices and food prices decline almost immediately.

This wealth effect would mean they would spend and invest more and this will make the global economy grow - leading to more prosperous and healthy lives for everyone - especially the poor.

And the Third World could abandon fear of industrialization and begin to invest in the power plants and cement factories and asphalt factories - and yes sweat shops - so they can build homes and highways and roads and electrical grid which will lead them as it led us: to better way of life for all their people.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO THINGS PREVENTING AN IMMEDIATE, ROBUST AND SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY:

AL GORE AND AL QAEDA.

OSAMA WON'T LISTEN TO REASON.

WILL AL GORE?

EGYPT CONTINUES TO CRUMBLE

Let's see, as Egypt continues to deteriorate on its way to sharia, the population's anger turns against Israel and the USA. And worse, El Baradei is in talks with none other than the Muslim Brotherhood to form a dictatorship worse than the current (via Jihad Watch):

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group,is in talks with other anti-government figures to form a national unity government without President Hosni Mubarak, a group official told DPA on Sunday. [...]

Gamal Nasser, a spokesman for the Brotherhood, told DPA that his group was in talks with Mohammed ElBaradei - the former UN nuclear watchdog chief - to form a national unity government without the National Democratic Party of Mubarak.

I wonder if Nasser is related to the dictator who dwelled in the 1950s? I did a search to make sure my knowledge was accurate that Gamal Abdel Nasser was the dictator - the second official one - in Egypt from 1956 till his death in 1970. The Brotherhood's spokesperson's name sounds surprisingly similar, so one can only wonder.

And seeing all this chaos forming, I feel I have to say: thank you Menachem Begin,* for signing a "peace treaty" with that nazi spy Anwar Sadat in 1979, and ceding the Sinai peninsula. This Expatica article, published just 2 years ago, gives some insight into how the nazis invested in monsters like Sadat during WW2. Because Begin had to be so stupid to even allow someone like Sadat into the country at the time, we ended up losing a defensible border. Now, because of that, not only did Israelis from Yamit lose their homes at the time, but if the Muslim Brotherhood rises, they could set up an army in the Sinai and use it as an attack base.

Begin's grave error is something to learn from, and it's going to be the hard way.

Update: Barry Rubin has written his own commentary about El Baradei.

* Benny Begin, his son, never attended the "anniversaries" held for this now crumbling peace treaty. He seems to understand.

IF MUBARAK HAD LISTENED TO BUSH AND RICE IN 2005 (VIDEO), THEN HIS SON GAMAL MIGHT BE LEADING EL BARADEI IN PRE-ELECTION POLLING RIGHT NOW...

... INSTEAD OF COWERING IN LONDON.

AND HALF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND 5/7TH'S OF THE MIDDLE EAST WOULDN'T BE HEADING TOWARD IRANIAN-STYLE TOTALITARIANISM.

SIGH.

MUST SEE VIDEO OF SECRETARY RICE LECTURING STUDENTS - AND BY EXTENSION MUBARAK AND EVERY OTHER ARAB TYRANT - AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO IN 2005 HERE.

A FEW MIDDLE EAST PREDICTIONS FOR 2011

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY UNDER ATTACK BY IRAN AND ISLAMISTS. THE ATTACKS WILL BE CRANKED UP A DEGREE IN THE COMING MONTHS:

1 - SAAD HARIRI WILL BE ASSASSINATED - PERHAPS AS SOON AS A FEW WEEKS

2 - KING HUSSEIN OF JORDAN WILL BE ASSASSINATED - PERHAPS AS SOON AS FEW MONTHS

3 - EL BARADEI WILL BE ASSASSINATED AFTER A FEW MONTHS IN POWER, AND AFTER THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS FIRMLY ENSCONCED IN THE NEW EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT

4 - MOROCCO'S KING MOHAMED VI WILL BE ASSASSINATED

5 - TURKEY WILL END ALL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL AND OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE PALESTINE.

6 - AND IN THE NEXT YEAR - TO APPEASE THE BURGEONING ISLAMIST HEGEMONY OVER NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE GULF STATES AND THE SUEZ CANAL - (RATHER THAN CONFRONTING IT), OBAMA WILL ABSTAIN FROM BLOCKING AN AGGRESSIVE ANTI-ISRAEL, BINDING UNSC RESOLUTION , AND ISRAEL IS COMPLETELY ISOLATED...

UNDER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, ISLAMISM IS ASCENDANT.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.

THE FIRST 5 ACTIONS ARE ALL WELL WITHIN THE REACH OF IRAN.

TO IRAN, THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MID-GAME CHESS MOVES - LIKE TAKING A BISHOP OR A KNIGHT.

TOO BAD FOR US, WE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE AS MANY OF IRAN'S PIECES UNDER THREAT AS THEY HAVE OF OURS.

TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM BEING CHECK-MATED BY IRAN AND GLOBAL JIHAD, IT WILL TAKE SOME VERY BOLD MOVES ON OUR PART....

EL BARADEI, IRAN AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAVE ALL BUT OVERTHROWN MUBARAK AND TAKEN OVER THE MIDDLE EAST - and what comes next...

IT IS A FACT THAT: as chief of the IAEA, El Baradei might as well have been in cahoots with Iran for years - he was always running interference for them and the IAEA for all intents and purposes allowed Iran to go nuclear.

(BTW: He was director of the IAEA when Pakistan got their nukes and while the AQ Khan network expanded helping Libya, and while North Korea went nuclear. HECKUVA JOB MOHAMED!)

IMHO, this scenario and subtext makes sense:

In return for this - (and as part of the islamists overall plan to destroy the "Great Satan" and the "Little Satan", restore the Caliphate and subjugate the free world) - Iran agreed to see to it that El Baradei was installed as the next "Caliph of Cairo".

This plan has probably been in effect for at least 5 years - probably more: Iranians invented chess and are patient chess-players - patiently moving pieces in position over years.

El Baradei is probably not a jihadist, but he is most definitely a postmodern leftist who sees the USA and the West as evil - just as Obama's mentor at Columbia --- Edward Said --- did!) - and he probably is happy that Pakistan and soon Iran have nukes to be an effective counter-weight to USA hegemony.

El Baradei probably sees this as the only way to subjugate the USA and Israel to the will of the "international community."

And, he probably thinks he is using the Iranians to promote a postmodernist and socialist and UTOPIANIST world.

Hence, he probably thinks a nuclear Iran and an anti-American North Africa and Middle East is worth killing a few million or several million people through war and starvation.

And hence, this endeavor also worth driving up oil to $500 dollars a gallon.

YES: the postmodernists think that the USA and Israel and fossil fuels are so very evil that getting rid of them would be worth destroying the present world economy and bringing on a totally global and viciously kinetic final battle to WW4.

FACT: The Iranians have been lying to the IAEA and trying to go nuclear for 2 decades.

FACT: They have patiently and DIRECTLY been undermining us in Iraq - with aid to the Sadrists and IED's for example.

FACT: they have undermined us in Afghanistan - by aiding the Taliban.

FACT: they have been undermine us in Lebanon and in Syria.

NOW: By effectively taking Lebanon and Egypt, the Iranians are now in control of MOST the nations surrounding Israel.

As soon as they topple Jordan - which I expect to happen within the year, they will have surrounded Israel AND SAUDI ARABIA.

I believe this is something they intend on achieving by the time the USA exits Iraq.

The only way to stop the IRANIAN/ISLAMIST takeover of north Africa and the Middle East and the Gulf States - and 50% of the world's oil, and the Suez Canal, and HALF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN is to attack Iran and destroy that regime.

We have until about a year after we exit Iraq - now publicly scheduled for the end of 2011... which means we have until December 2012...

BOTTOM-LINE:

El Baradei is either a dupe of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, or he thinks he's outsmarting them.

I think in matters not which.

He is functionally just like the islamist returning to Tunisia - probably to take over:

part of Iranian backed islamist hegemony -

AND MORE DANGEROUS TO US THAN MUBARAK EVER WAS.

NEW JERSEY'S SNOWIEST WINTER IN 62 YEARS

MUST BE ALL THAT CO2.

AND GET THIS:

WITH ONLY 1/3 OF WINTER DONE, NYC IS ALREADY 3/4 OF THE WAY TO AN ALL-TIME WINTER SNOWFALL RECORD!

UH-OH: EVEN LEBANON IS EVACUATING ITS CITIZENS FROM EGYPT!

YOU KNOW THINGS HAVE GOT TO BE REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD IN EGYPT WHEN ARABS FROM LEBANON THINK THEY'D BE SAFER IN LEBANON THAN EGYPT!

LOOTERS VANDALIZING MUMMIES

THIS MEANS THE LOOTERS ARE PROBABLY ISLAMISTS.

CAIRO SHUTS DOWN AL JAZEERA

NOT A GOOD SIGN... SHOWS LACK OF CONFIDENCE AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF MORE VIOLENCE...

GULF STATE'S STOCK EXCHANGES LOSE $10 BILLION

THE UNREST IN THE STREETS IS CAUSING AN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IN THE REGION - AND THIS MIGHT SPREAD...

MOUNTAIN-CLIMBER SURVIVES 1000 FT FALL

HE FELL 1000 FEET AND WALKED AWAY. UNBELIEVABLE:

A climber has astonished rescuers by plunging almost 1,000ft down a mountain and emerging with only cuts and bruises.

The climber fell 1,000ft from a peak five miles east of Ben Nevis (pictured) The 35-year-old was found standing up and reading a map, all but unscathed after the death-defying fall in Scotland.

He had reached the summit of the 3,589ft Sgurr Choinnich Mor when he lost his footing and fell down the steep, craggy slope.

... He was said to be "shaking from extreme emotional shock and the sheer relief at still being alive".

The man was found at 2,600ft, making his fall almost 1,000ft from the summit.

MORE ON THE MOUNTAIN:

Sgurr Choinnich Mor is a fine pointed peak at the south-west end of the Grey Corries range. The summit ridge is quite narrow and the rocky north-west face drops steeply on the Glen Spean side of the mountain, but the south-east face overlooking the watershed at the head of Glen Nevis is more grassy. The south-west ridge goes over the outlying top, Sgurr Choinnich Beag, which is very similar in shape to its higher neighbour.

THIS WAS A MIRACLE.

IS CHINA A PAPER TIGER?

FROM 1/28 WSJ:

ABC/AU:

China's state broadcaster is facing questions after internet users spotted that footage in a report on air force manoeuvres in a national newscast was taken from the 1980s Hollywood film Top Gun.

China Central Television, or CCTV, aired the footage in a January 23 report on a People's Liberation Army Air Force training exercise, showing a plane firing a missile at another.

The second aircraft plane was destroyed in a fiery explosion and the dramatic footage was shown in between interviews with air force officers.

However, some internet users recognised the explosion from the dogfight in the final scene of the 1986 film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.

The Wall Street Journal posted a side-by-side video comparison of the CCTV news report and the Top Gun scene on its website, showing the two were identical.

CHINA WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS IF THEIR AIR FORCE WAS REALLY AS GOOD AS THEY CLAIM, WOULD THEY? REMEMBER FOLKS: A LOT OF WHAT IS STAMPED "MADE IN CHINA" IS CRAP. TOXIC CRAP. YOU'D RATHER BUY A CAR MADE IN SOUTH KOREA THAN ONE MACE IN CHANE WOULDN'T YOU?

MAYBE THEIR AIR FORCE IS JUST AS CRAPPY? JUST ASKING...

SAUDI MAN ARRESTED FOR HUGGING HIS WIFE'S FEMALE OBSTETRICIAN

AFTER THE BIRTH OF HIS FIRST SON, A SAUDI MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR HUGGING HIS FEMALE OBSTETRICIAN.

YOU READ THAT RIGHT.

HE WAS RELEASED AFTER HE PUBLICLY APOLOGIZED.

ISLAM: RELIGION OF INSANITY.

YES, INSANITY. AND DON'T TELL ME THE SAUDI'S ARE MISUNDERSTANDERS OF ISLAM!