Let
us turn from the post-Thanksgiving scenes of inflamed mobs clubbing each
other to the ground for a discounted television set to the
comparatively placid boulevards of the Middle East. In Cairo, no sooner
had Hillary Clinton’s plane cleared Egyptian air space than Mohamed
Morsi issued one-man constitutional amendments declaring himself and his
Muslim Brotherhood buddies free from judicial oversight and announced
that his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, would be retried for all the stuff
he was acquitted of in the previous trial. Morsi now wields total
control over parliament, the judiciary, and the military to a degree
Mubarak in his jail cell can only marvel at. Old CIA wisdom: He may be
an SOB but he’s our SOB. New post–Arab Spring CIA wisdom: He may be an
SOB but at least he’s not our SOB.
But don’t worry. As America’s director of national intelligence,
James Clapper, assured the House Intelligence Committee at the time of
Mubarak’s fall, the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular”
organization. The name’s just for show, same as the Episcopal Church.Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333928/failures-intelligence-mark-steyn
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