Is Barack Obama The Manchurian Candidate For The Muslim Brotherhood?
February 16, 2011 by John Myers
”The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.”– Maulana Inyadullah, al-Qaida leader, September 2001.
The extremists may soon hold the reins in Egypt. Islam marches forward while former President Hosni Mubarak is in hiding. Thirty years ago Iran was toppled. Then fell Afghanistan. And just last week it was Egypt, the jewel of the Nile, the Arab gateway to the world.
Never mind what former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara proclaimed about Vietnam. The real threat to freedom both in America and abroad is much more dangerous today than any domino theory manufactured by Pentagon think tanks in the 1960s. It turned out Communism was soulless. Islam has a soul; a very dark one that wants to engulf the world. It may have just swallowed Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) demanded and got the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Today the military controls power in Egypt but soon the MB may institute its own brazen rule. After all they helped force Mubarak’s full and unconditional surrender. This has created a huge vacuum in Egypt, the outcome that the MB was gunning for.
Before fleeing, Mubarak slammed Egypt’s MB as a "dangerous" and “duplicitous” movement. Egypt’s president feared MB because of its close relationship with Hamas and radical groups in Jordan, Kuwait and farther afield.
Before Mubarak’s departure, Egypt’s Director of Intelligence Omar Soliman stated that the MB is:"Neither a religious organization, nor a social organization, nor a political party, but a combination of all three."
The principal danger Soliman warned, is the group’s exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public. Soliman asserts that the MB has spawned, "Eleven different Islamic extremist organizations," most notably the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya.
Soliman termed the MB’s recent success in the parliamentary elections as "unfortunate," adding his view that although the group was technically illegal, existing Egyptian laws were insufficient to keep the MB in check.
What Are Obama’s Real Ambitions?
The real question is why President Barack Obama wasn’t willing to keep MB at check, to help see Mubarak’s government into a peaceful transition. Certainly history called out for this course of action from the White House.
Consider the writings of Edmund Burke, one of the fathers of Conservatism who lived in the 18th Century. Burke wrote extensively about the French Revolution and proclaimed that it was a massive social experiment doomed to fail because it presumed to start a society over from scratch.
“Good order is the foundation of all things,” Burke wrote. The terror that followed the revolution saw the execution of 40,000 French citizens.
In my lifetime something similar happened in Iran. Yet Obama doesn’t seem to have learned anything from history going so far as to ignore pleas by U.S. allies to use Mubarak to help with a peaceful transition towards democracy in Egypt.
Obama, it seems, is either ignorant of the problems posed by an Islamist Egypt or worse, he embraces them.
The MB threatens not just Egypt and the Suez but puts a noose around the most important oil producer in the world, Saudi Arabia. Could it be that for either personal or pragmatic reasons, Obama wants to see the price of oil soar? A death grip around Egypt and Saudi Arabia is a perfect prescription for $150 per barrel oil. Those prices suddenly make green energy a viable alternative.
The American Thinker believes that Obama is not like President Jimmy Carter, a deer caught in the headlights. Instead it says, Obama understands exactly what he is doing in muckraking radical Islam:
“From his notorious Cairo speech to the present, President Obama speaks, and disaster follows.
“Some commentators believe that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are so utterly naïve as to make themselves unable to understand what will happen in Egypt as a result of their undermining of the Mubarak regime. The question is justifiably asked: Do they truly believe that the next regime that comes to power will have the interests of the U.S. and the West at heart?
“My fear is that Obama is not naïve at all, but he instead knows only too well what he is doing, for he is eagerly promoting Islamic power in the world while diminishing the West and Israel, however much innocent blood will flow as a result.
“Inevitably, sooner or later, the Muslim Brotherhood will take power, usher in a barbaric Islamist power in Egypt that will control the Suez Canal, and show no mercy to its own people or its perceived foes.
“So now we see what the present incumbent in the White House has wrought.”
Fact #1: If MB gains control of Egypt, it will dictate the use of the world’s most important water transits. Nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day, most of it destined for Europe, could be cut off without notice even as that continent is in the midst of its worst economic crisis in 70 years.
Fact #2: If the MB wrestles control of Egypt, that sets up Saudi Arabia as Islam’s next target. The House of Saud pumps 8 million barrels of crude per day. If they collapse, a petro-based world collapses. There is not enough oil in the world to compensate for the current petroleum production coming from Saudi Arabia. (Before you write me about the pie-in-the-sky project in the Dakotas, do a bit of research — the U.S. is currently pumping less than 5 million barrels of oil per day, or about what we produced when Truman was in office while oil production for North Dakota will take well over a decade to develop.)
Fact #3: New green technologies only work if oil prices are well above $100 per barrel. If MB rules Egypt radical Islam will set its sights on Saudi Arabia.
That would give Obama’s Green Revolution a lot of traction. In fact, the President’s view of the world as it “should be” can only happen if he instigates a price contagion upon petroleum. Only then can he sit back and say: “Green energy. Mission accomplished!”
I don’t know what is going through the President’s mind, but I do know we have a President very different from George W. Bush. Bush wanted to protect America from Arab oil shocks. Obama seems to be inviting them.
Is it out of Muslim loyalty or Green ambitions? In the end, does it even matter? What matters is that America has a President that is putting his personal goals ahead of the nation. First and foremost for this man is his re-election, with all of his grandiose ambitions that will follow.
Yours in good times and bad,
John Myers
Editor, Myers’ Energy & Gold Report
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