Thought things couldn't get weirder?? Think again.

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US Govt Plays Egypt For Laughs | obama | comedy_central | jon_stewart | American Pie | Sky News Blogs

So imagine you are America's most senior military official and you want the world to know you have been in regular contact with your Egyptian counterpart at a time of geopolitical crisis.

Which news outlet would you choose to get the word out?

In a signal of the Obama administration's apparent contempt for what Sarah Palin calls the 'lamestream media', last night the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen picked Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'.

 

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Thought things couldn't get weirder?? Think again.



...again the the pot calls the kettle black.











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Racist.

 

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Is it not weird that our top military leader is talking about such a serious matter on comedy central??

For those who are buying what Obama, Clinton and the media are saying about this being a democratic revolution against a repressive regime, take a look at what Egyptians say.

Be Careful What You Wish For In Egypt - Matt Schifrin - Buffetts Next Door - Forbes

According to a Pew opinion survey of Egyptians from June 2010, 59 percent said they back Islamists. Only 27% said they back modernizers. Half of Egyptians support Hamas. Thirty percent support Hizbullah and 20% support al Qaida. Moreover, 95% of them would welcome Islamic influence over their politics. When this preference is translated into actual government policy, it is clear that the Islam they support is the al Qaida Salafist version.

Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion.

From those numbers it isn't hard to see that this is going to be a step back for Egypt, not what the media is telling us.

And this isn't going to go well for the women of Egypt either. Mubarak's main sin is to try to reform Egypt.

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

Suzanne Mubarak, Egypt's First Lady, continues to campaign against the practice, which she has denounced as "physical and psychological violence against children." Last May 1, she appeared at Aswan City alongside the provincial governor and other local officials to declare the province free of it. And on October 28, Mrs Mubarak inaugurated an African conference on stopping genital mutilation.

The most authoritative Egyptian Muslim scholars continue to recommend genital mutilation.
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That is not a Muslim view (the practice is rare in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan), but an Egyptian Muslim view. In the most fundamental matters, President and Mrs Mubarak are incomparably more enlightened than the Egyptian public.
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Egypt is wallowing in backwardness, not because the Mubarak regime has suppressed the creative energies of the people, but because the people themselves cling to the most oppressive practices of traditional (muslim) society. And countries can only languish in backwardness so long before some event makes their position untenable.
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The best thing the United States could do at the moment would be to offer massive emergency food aid to Egypt out of its own stocks, with the understanding that President Mubarak would offer effusive public thanks for American generosity. This is a stopgap, to be sure, but it would pre-empt the likely alternative. Otherwise, the Muslim Brotherhood will preach Islamist socialism to a hungry audience.

It is obvious that Obama will do just the opposite because he is in fact an islamist socialist himself, to the core.