Thursday - June 02, 2011

fool me twice, shame on me

The roar of the jubilant crowd assembled in Cairo’s Tahrir Square said it all.

Nearly four months ago, longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak finally yielded to political reality and stepped down from power. Mubarak’s fall—coming on the heels of the ouster of neighboring Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali—was seen by many as part of a domino effect.

The Arab world, it seemed, was finally on the brink of a peaceful democratic transition that had eluded the troubled region for generations.

Today, however, the promise of a peaceful Arab Spring appears to be yielding to the reality of a long, violent summer as dictators across the Middle East and North Africa draw a line in the sand and fight to maintain control of their countries.

Protesters, meanwhile, are showing no sign of backing down.

“We’ve seen the last (Middle East) dictator leave voluntarily,” Michael Rubin, a regional expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, recently told CNN.

U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders will continue to push for peaceful change when possible, Rubin said. But dictators in the region have been spooked by the fate of Mubarak, who is now facing trial and a possible death sentence, and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, who is facing an onslaught from armed rebels and NATO air forces.

They “see there is no possibility of a peaceful retirement,” Rubin said. And many of them also “believe that their country is their personal fight.”

Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. If you can even be bothered to click the mouse, read the rest here at CNN. The left’s never ending capacity for both projection and wishful thinking is doing another nosedive straight into the well used kitty litter once again. Did they really, really believe things were going to be otherwise? Are they really that immature? Crivens, I can’t wait; in another 6 months they’ll finally realize that the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat, and that these uprisings and revolutions across the entire muslime world are orchestrated by Iran with one goal in mind: bringing about the Caliphate and the rise of the 12th Imam. Which is what Glenn Beck said ages ago, but he’s a crazy religious rightwingnut, so don’t listen to him. Or to any of those countless other Conservatives who have been saying essentially the same thing.

I read another bit of projectionism at CNN’s site yesterday, about how all of Egypt was simply outraged at the “virginity check” done to those female protesters. I didn’t see any point in updating my post on the subject with their BS. Funny how the article had quotes from various protest leaders about their gripes with the military junta now running Egypt, but not one word about the plight of these women. Guess why? Because they couldn’t care less. Worse: they fully support any and all acts of degradation against women who dare to protest against their Allah-granted status as bipedal livestock. But the lefty newswires are hot with “Egyptian indignation” now that the allegation has been admitted to. Pure projectionism. And still, not a word from any of the leading Western women’s organizations.

PS - paste the title into Google Translate.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/02/2011 at 10:32 AM   
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