Egypt Will Be Saved by the Army or Lost to Radical Islam

Dear readers, I am more and more disturbed by what the media is saying and what experts speaking to or writing in the media are saying - about Egypt. The perfect example...today, an article in The American Conservative beats the title : "Cut Egypt Loose." As if Egypt were a derelict rowboat that should be allowed to sink. The post quotes an earlier article which said : "With blood in Egypt’s streets and a return to a state of emergency, it’s time for Washington to stop pretending. Its efforts to maintain its lines of communication with the Egyptian military, quietly mediate the crisis, and help lay the groundwork for some new, democratic political process have utterly failed. Egypt’s new military regime, and a sizable and vocal portion of the Egyptian population, have made it very clear that they just want the United States to leave it alone. For once, Washington should give them their wish. As long as Egypt remains on its current path, the Obama administration should suspend all aid, keep the embassy in Cairo closed, and refrain from treating the military regime as a legitimate government." In "Cut Egypt Loose" the writer agrees with this conclusion : "It might have seemed clever to withhold judgment on the July coup and try to nudge the military towards a return to elected government, but this was interpreted by all sides as a positive endorsement of the coup and confirmation that there was nothing that the Egyptian military did that would trigger the suspension of aid....The U.S. can’t constructively influence what the Egyptian military and its interim government do, and it should stop pretending that it can....it does nothing but harm America’s reputation to be backing a coup government that kills civilian protesters in the streets. It costs the U.S. very little to end that support, and it gains the U.S. nothing but grief to continue the status quo." ~~~~~ THIS IS WRONG...WRONG...WRONG. We are not witnessing in the Moslem Brotherhood a new Martin Luther King trying to gain constitutionally guaranteed civil rights for American Blacks. This is not Selma or the March on the Mall. The Moslem Brotherhood does not have "a dream." It is attempting to impose a nightmare on Egyptians who do not support their radical vision of Islam. The Moslem Brotherhood spawned Hamas - the organization that "kidnapped" the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip by promising democracy and economic development but delivering charia law, imposed leaders without further elections and economic collapse. Morsi tried to "kidnap" Egypt with a similar set of election promises. He then hired corrupt security forces to monitor civilians. He rigged the parliamentary elections and foisted an islamist-charia leaning constitution on Egyptians who were cut out of the governmental process. He gave himself dictarorial powers. BUT Morsi made one mistake. He thought Egyptians were as docile as the Gaza Palestinians. They were not. Egyptians rose up in the tens of millions to demand that the army get rid of Morsi and let them restart their march toward self-government. WHAT HAS THE ARMY DONE? The army stepped in. It took Morsi from power. It named an interim government after consulting all groups in Egypt. It announced a plan, still on schedule, to write a new constitution, approve it in a referendum and then hold parliamentary and presidential elections. The interim prime minister today reaffirmed all this in a TV appearance. WHAT HAS THE BROTHERHOOD DONE? It has encouraged its followers to block significant crossroads making some Cairo areas difficult to live and work in, while torturirg and killing some who refused to join the Brotherhood. It has pleaded that it is the innocent democratic victim...just re-read above to understand the cynicism at work here. It collected arms, ammunition and bombs - many of which have been seized by the army this week. It has desecrated and burned Christian churches. It has killed a cab driver who supported the army with a photo in his taxi. It has beheaded at least one policeman. It occupied a mosque and used tbe prayer minaret as a vantage point for sniper fire on citizens and soldiers in the streets - the army offered safe exit to Brotherhood followers and others in the mosque and helped many exit before clearing it of Brotherhood members today. ~~~~~ Yes...the army has killed people this week. Yes...the situation is precarious. BUT imagine the massacres all over Egypt if the army loses control to the Brotherhood. Imagine an Egypt controlled by islamist radicals. Imagine the future of the Suez Canal. Imagine Iran in Egypt with no restraining force left to keep them and the Brotherhood and Hamas from making good on their vow to eliminate Israel. The world is not Utopia. Choices must be made. Choose the dream of self-government for Egypt. Do not cast out her people into the arms of terrorists. Support the Egyptian army as it tries to hold the country together.