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The fiscal cliff and the Middle East

To shriek over a contrived “fiscal cliff” when we are already immersed in a sea of red ink is foolish — but, alas, no more so than acting out the clinical definition of insanity on the world stage. With reelection secured and all eyes on the “Taxmageddon” drama, Obama is also intervening more directly on behalf of the anti-American Sunni Islamists who seek to topple the despicable, Iranian-backed Assad regime in Syria.

It is remarkable. If there were no Syrian civil war, we would be thumbing our chins, wondering if there were any way to weaken all our enemies by turning them against each other. Syria has done just that. Not only is Assad teetering and Iran being bled; Sunni Islamists are at the throats of Shiite Islamists, Iraq and Turkey are squabbling, a wedge has been driven between Hezbollah and Hamas, and even the PLO is riven as Assad’s supporters in the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine butt heads with the Islamist factions.

All this, and we haven’t had to do a thing except stay out. Now, however, with the usual urging from Washington’s progressive bipartisan phalanx of “Islamic democracy” builders, Obama is openly colluding with Islamist regimes — Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar — to show Assad the door and install the Brotherhood. The administration is hell-bent on creating yet another “Islamic democracy” even as the one it midwifed in Egypt shoves a sharia constitution down the throats of persecuted Copts and other beleaguered minorities.

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[Obama is] advancing the agenda of Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Brotherhood in North Africa, Middle East. We’re doing their work, pitting ourselves against Syria, Iran and ultimately Russia and China.

petefrt on December 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM

Almost spot on — an excellent analysis of reality.

My primary quibble is with something VERY IMPORTANT that Mr. McCarthy left out:

With regard to that latter massacre in Benghazi, a State Department report issued this week could not help but condemn the reckless security lapses even as its authors whitewashed the culpability of Secretary Clinton. They also sidestepped the simple, central questions to which Washington, after three months, cannot produce answers: How and when during the seven-hour terrorist siege did President Obama learn about it, and what orders did he give to mobilize available military assets to protect the Americans who were under attack?

[Editor ShainS added: and ...] What was Ambassador Stevens doing — at a CIA safehouse, NOT a “consulate” as continually reported/repeated à la The Big Lie — in Benghazi?

Fixed it for Seven Percent Solution and me …

ShainS on December 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM

Andrew McCarthy for President. Stat!

He and Mark Steyn are the only two (off the top of my head) who have uncommon common sense, as well as a sense of history.

onlineanalyst on December 22, 2012 at 6:37 PM

McCarthy certainly recognizes and articulates the utter stupidity, now going into full blown insanity, of this Islamic Nation Building/Petraeus COIN anti-American madness.

VorDaj on December 22, 2012 at 6:44 PM