Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. John Bernard points out that circumstances in the Middle East, North Africa and general Mediterranean Region are heating up as we are watching a grand realignment take place before our eyes.
As our Secretary of State, the President and others clamor to be the first to support the Egyptian protestors move toward a democracy, one has to ask if the first vote they cast will be the one driving them into a different form of slavery? If the Muslim Brotherhood is behind it, as they say they are and if Iran sees 'democracy' there as 'good', exactly what will this 'democracy' look like...one need only look inside Iran to figure that one out!
John nails another one as he points out the mullahs of Iran are behind what we see currently unfolding in the Middle East. In this case, the mullahs of Iran are using the secretive and seditious Muslim Brotherhood as the operatives for their Revolutionary Guard as their front group. And yes this is the same MB we see operating within and around our own federal government.
As pointed out in the book entitled "A Time to Betray" by Reza Kahlili, and knowing that Ahmadinejad was put in power and kept there by the mullahs of Iran, "[....] Like others who think as he does, Ahmadinejad believes that many of the signs of Mahdi’s return have emerged. Known as hadiths, these signs include the invasion of Afghanistan, the bloodshed in Iraq, and the global economic meltdown. According to prophecy, the hadiths will grow increasingly furious as Mahdi’s return comes closer, including “persecution and injustice” engulfing the earth, “chaos and famine,” and “many wars.” The hadiths predict that “many will be killed and the rest will suffer hunger and lawlessness.” People like Ahmadinejad so completely believed that these conditions would hasten the return of the twelfth Imam that they were willing to foment universal war, chaos, and famine to bring it about."
When will we ever accept the truth about this Islamist enemy and know that trying to appease the mullahs of Iran simply allows a thugocracy of Islamic radical clerics to extend their reach?
"Nobody seems to be asking this question. The talking heads can't make the connection because for the talking heads, there is no commonality. Hasn't that been the argument all of this time? We have been trying to get someone - anyone in government or anywhere in the media to consider, even for a minute, the possibility that there might be other factors to consider and yet they remain immutable.
There was almost no publicly displayed concern when Tunisia crumbled and very little talk about the 'growing pains' in Lebanon. Egypt has been different though. Egypt has been seen as an ally in a region of the world where the difference between your friends and your enemies can be defined by the bruise on your forehead - assuming you still have a head to bruise.
Mubarak's government media made it clear the Muslim Brotherhood was behind this latest round of protests and within days,the Muslim Brotherhood made it clear that they were. During this same period, Iranian officials made it clear that they supported the protestors and their quest for 'democracy'. The Egyptian government outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood in 1954 just 26 years after they formed in that country largely due to their political opposition. Their efforts in Egypt since then can be defined as an underground movement and when these latest protests began in earnest last week, their effectiveness became readily apparent.
The fact that Iran has come forward and made clear their support of the protestors who are being 'lead' or 'encouraged' by the Muslim Brotherhood should suggest they are in league with each other - at least ideologically. If our government has shown a complete lack of credible understanding of Islam they have never-the-less been more or less all in agreement that Iran is rogue in a part of the world they (the US government), see as otherwise peaceful. If Iran is rogue and their Clerics have in fact hi-jacked an otherwise peaceful religion, shouldn't we be concerned that they are apparently in league with the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts in Egypt? Is there any serious indication that elections in Iran have been conducted without coercion? If not; then what exactly is the definition of a democracy in Iran?
Let's also recall that the Muslim Brotherhood is the principle advisory 'committee' for this sitting government and the Pentagon. Getting nervous yet? This sitting government's military decisions in that region of the world are based largely on advice from Muslim Brotherhood officials.
If, then, the Muslim Brotherhood is behind a protest that is lauded by the Iranians who all agree are violent and 'extremist' in their ideological views, what confidence can anyone have for the future of Egypt? The protestors in Egypt may well achieve democracy but it will be short lived. In their first democratically cast ballot, they will likely vote themselves into another form of slavery taught by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Clerics. The sad truth is all of the countries with predominantly Muslim populations in that area with autocratic regimes are likely to follow suit.
Our Representatives in DC are likely to get several lessons in Islamic Theocratic processes in short order. The question is what they will learn from these lessons and whether it will cause them to reconsider their rosy view of Islamic doctrine and Islamic society in Afghanistan specifically. Let's not forget that the COIN strategy governing our military prowess in that country has a lot more to do with US human terrain assessments than it has to do with sound battle strategy.
As Iran is about the business of developing a nuclear program capable of delivering a warhead, they are also busy seeding the region with their version of Shia Islam and replicating themselves. If the toehold they now have in Iraq is a devastating indictment of our complete misunderstanding of the draw of fundamental Islam on Muslims, misunderstanding the Iranian and Muslim Brotherhood's intent for the crumbling governments of it's neighbors will be confirmation of that ignorance.
In the end; governments come and governments go. In a Democracy or a Constitutional Republic such as ours, casting blame on the incompetency of government is tricky. In this land of government, 'by the people, for the people', the people have only themselves to blame for the shortsightedness of their elected representatives.
If, then, the people are in fact dissatisfied with the way our Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and Coastguardsmen are being led on the plains of Afghanistan, they are going to have to rise from their soft cushioned thrones in front of the television set, pick up the phone and do something about it.
Our Warriors are.
They are doing the very thing they swore to do; obeying the lawful orders of the Officers placed above them - who are carrying out the mission statement of the White House and blessed by those same representatives…By - Their - Silence!"
Semper Fidelis;
John Bernard
Related articles - just a few of the finding when searching inside the CSIA Report using the term "Muslim Brotherhood".
Worldwide Islamist revolution explodes
The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context: A Special STRATFOR Report
The Egyptian Unrest: A Special Report
Muslim Brotherhood: Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States...
Islamists behind 'protests' toppling Arab regimes
Fall of Saudi Arabia to End U.S. Dollar Reserve System?
Finally, The First True Reformation of Islam is starting
Latest on military's prosecution Lt. Michael Behenna or 'catch and release'
A Jihadist in the Heart of the American Conservative Movement
Afghanistan Strategy Change Needed; Making the Case
Judge OKs American Taxes to Fund Islam & 'flag of Islam on American soil'
Islamic supremacist pseudo-moderate Reza Aslan claims Iran's Ahmadinejad is a liberal reformer
Now look who else is penetrating CPAC
Is free Iraq becoming a more Islamic state?
