And perhaps the people of Islam aren’t able to organize themselves in anything that closely resembles a democracy. In fact I’m pretty confident that they cannot. Yet I have hope. But if we’re true to our own principles, then we have to let them try without our own “complexes” getting in the way. And certainly, current international policy that we’ve been utilizing from administration to administration – one of nation building, spreading of pornography, and now, pre-emptive strikes will not make Islam to cease. This will inflame it. And maybe that is what these “interests” actually want …

Obama’s implicit treatment of Egypt’s current government as a spent force is short-sighted and detrimental to a stable solution. The regime of Hosni Mubarak has been very good to America. For almost three decades it has honored the peace treaty with Israel signed in 1979 by Mubarak’s slain predecessor Anwar al Sadat. On many occasions, and notably during the Second Intifada, it ignored the pressure of “the Street” and rejected the lure of pan-Arabism. The U.S. Navy has enjoyed privileged access to the Suez Canal—a key consideration in Washington’s overall Middle Eastern strategy—and the Pentagon was free to stage elaborate war games in Egypt’s deserts. Egypt was an active participant in the first Iraqi war in 1991 and a silent American partner in its 2003 sequel. It has provided non-lethal support to the “Allied” effort in Afghanistan. It has shared anti-terrorist intelligence with U.S. agencies at all levels of classification. Unlike Saudi Arabia it was a true “American ally,” one of the few in the Arab world and the most important one of them all

Mubarak was our creation, and the “Koza Nostra” that’s coming in now, is also our creation. Much like the Taliban was our creation, and the UCK was our creation. For it was our current standing VicePresident who once told the late President of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski regarding the UCK in Kosovo, “It’s not about what is right, it’s about what we can do!” Until we muster up the courage to say that America is not acting within our own laws, none of this will cease.

And finally, why does it have to be “Western style Democracy”? Why can’t it be a form of democracy that happens in the Middle East that the people of the Middle East decide for themselves? What’s wrong with Middle Eastern Democracy?

Think of it: the three largest and wealthiest European countries have awoken from their leftist/secularist torpor; the scales have fallen from their eyes. The irony? We in America cannot yet join them (we will eventually –too late perhaps?) because our Ruling Class is still beholden to this dangerous and stupid ideology.

For us Orthodox Christians our hands are even more tied. How are we to be led to rectitude by those of us whose leaders are dhimmi bishops? Where is the clarity that is needed coming out of Istanbul, Alexandria, or Damascus? Or are the Archons going to keep on subjugating the GOA laity to permanent hostage status?

“Vice President Omar Suleiman should be given a chance to continue that quest by incremental reforms within the framework of a firmly guided democracy. If he fails the Brotherhood will win, and duly condemn as rebellion against Allah’s supremacy the submission to any form of law other than the Shari’a. It is to be hoped that Egypt’s political class and military officers will prevent that outcome regardless of Obama’s expectations and advice.”

I like this Tifkovic fellow more and more each time I read him. I would really like to hear him elaborate on what he considers to be the fundamentals of a “firmly guided democracy”.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259534/lights-out-middle-east-s-christians-rich-lowry