Christine O’Donnell is Concerned, and is Issuing Orders
First off, I have seen no report that Ahmadinejad is “delighted” by this news. I have been watching both Al Jazeera, MSNBC and CNN all morning. I have been following my Google Reader feed all day, which alerts to blog and news posts from almost everywhere, and again, there has been no mention of Ahmadinejad’s reaction. I have heard that there are celebrations in the streets of Tunisia, Lebanon, Gaza, Jordan and the West Bank. I would imagine that Ahmadinejad, like all autocrats and tyrants in the Middle East, is concerned. And rightfully so. If it could happen in Egypt, it can happen everywhere.
So my instinct is that Christine O’Donnell has once again created a falsehood to fit her concerns. Or perhaps she is just repeating a falsehood seen on right wing blogs.
But let’s, for the moment, assume that Ahmadinejad has let it be known that he is “delighted” with the revolution. Let’s examine, like thinking and intelligent people do, why Ahmadinejad would say that. Perhaps he is getting out in front and trying to diffuse any possible uprising in his own country? Indeed, given that the Iranian state media have been depicting the Egyptian uprising as a radical Islamist uprising, Ahmadinejad is obviously trying to depict events in Egypt as benefiting him and radical Islam.
However, as all evidence and all reporting have shown, the uprising in Egyptian has been secular. The people of Egypt have said themselves that they want democracy, not radical Islam. Christians and Muslims are protesting together in Tahrir Square, and Christians have protected Muslims during their daily prayers from Pro-Mubarak forces last week. Does Christine really think Christians want radical Islam? Really?
To borrow Christine’s style here, does it disturb anyone that Christine and Ahmadinejad both want this revolution to be seen as for radical Islam?
P.S. I love how Christine issues orders to the President. She really is a crazy witch.
A-Jad and the Supreme Leader are shaking in their Uggs! 🙂 Btw, the CIA’s top Middle-East regional intel personnel is ‘sizing up’ who’s next (I’ll take door No. 3) to be toppled.
Of course, Iran has invoked their ole stratagem by trying to jam or scramble satellite programming from Persia TV to try to hide the weenie from their democratically-hungry citizens.
Odds of who’s next in the fall of authoritarian rule:
Yemen – 3 to 1
Saudi Arabia – 50 to 1
Algeria – 20 to 1
Syria – 10 to 1
Morocco – 20 to 1
Iran – 1 mill. to 1 (the Revolutionary Guard are NOT afraid to use force on their youth and other citizens, unlike Egypt and China, in order to maintain control)
O’Donnell is what O’Donnell does, like Forrest Gump once taught us.
They were just talking about that on MSNBC. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria are all unlikely at this moment, as they have been controlling the news and have and will put down any protest, violently.
Algeria, Yemen, and Morocco are very likely.
DD, you forgot about her totally real back-channel access to highly classified information. People like you are responsible for our nation presently being under the dominion of China because you dismissed her years ago when she warned that Red China was about to invade us!
On a more serious note, Ahmadinejad is probably not especially worried about the ripple effect reviving the protests in Iran (the Guard Corps is much larger, much stronger, and much more integrated into the regime than even the Egyptian Army was in Egypt), but I doubt he’s super thrilled, given that I’m sure he recognizes this was not an Islamist uprising (the Brotherhood was really late to the party on this one), but merely a transfer of power between one secular Arab group and another. There’s really not a whole lot of benefit to him, except one less American yes-man and Israeli military ally in the region.
On your last point, Captain, I disagree. I think the peace treaty with Israel will survive if only because all U.S. aid to Egypt is contingent upon it. Further, the ties between the U.S. and Egyptian militaries are strong, so I believe we will remain allies.
Am I surprised? Yes I’m surprised. I didn’t think we’d see the weather underground/ACORN/caliphate in our life time.
What would Reagan do? What did Reagan do when 241 Marines were killed by a terrorist bomb in Lebanon in 1983? He did the intelligent thing . . pulled us out of Lebanon. What did Reagan do in 1986 when our staunch anti-communist friend Marcos in the Philippines was teetering? Reagan did the intelligent thing, said goodbye. Reagan had a pretty good feel when it came to the limits of American power abroad.
What would Reagan do?
I’ll tell you exactly what he would have done:
He would have said:
“Christine Shut the F up.”
Course it would have been a lot more polite than that. LOL
It would something like this:
“Well…[tilts head, smiles]… Ms. O’Donnell doesn’t know what she is talking about.”
WWRD I love that. He really is their deity.
WWRD – why, ship weapons illegally to Iran, of course.
Actually, he is trying to use this as an islamic/anti-zionist revolution.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LAIKV80.html
COD is still batshit nuts though.
The point is, he is wrong. This is not a islamist/anti-zionist revolution.
What would Reagan do? He would have said don’t let those dark skinned Egyptians have a genuine democracy just like he wanted to keep the dark skinned South Africans from getting the right to vote.