So, we’re getting our advice from the guy who enabled a nuclear Iran
Mohamed ElBaradei, who at one time was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and as such told us that a nuclear Iran was improbable and just so much hand wringing is now representing the government’s opposition in Egypt. We all know that he won the Nobel Prize because he opposed US concerns that Iran was arming itself with nuclear weapons, and now Alan Colmes uses him a source to tell us that ElBaradei says our fears of an Islamic state in Egypt are unfounded;
This is a myth that was sold by the Mabarak regime, that it’s either us — the ruthless dictators — or a Muslim al-Qaeda type. The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with the Iranian movement, has nothing to do with extremism as we have seen it in Afghanistan and other places. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because of liberal parties have been a struggle for thirty years. They are in favor of a secular state. they are of –they are in favor of an institution that have bread lines, they are in favor that every Egyptian have the same rights, that the state is in no way a state based on religion. And I have been reaching out to them. We need to include them.
So we can put as much trust in ElBaradei as we had in him when he worked at the UN, I suppose.
Category: Terror War
Anyone who thinks ElBaradei is even remotely a friend, hasn’t been paying attention.
IMO.
What made this so “Tehran 1979” was that the widespread, coordinated protests began immediately after evening prayers on Friday.
That tends to place this uprising in the “theocracy” category more than the “democracy” category.
If Eqypt’s muslim clerics are collectively behind this, this will undoubtedly end up like Tehran 1979. El-Baradei is just the new Bani Sadr (promptly elected with the clerics support and then promptly impeached by the clerics.)
Alan Colmes? Honestly, who listens to that idiot?
I have no doubt he left Hannity because Hannity called himm out all the time…and his radio show sucks of more “I’ve got my head in the sand, while Rome is burning” shit. Is it any wonder people think the Pied Piper is teh one?
Not sure which is worse: that we’re supposed to take comfort from a man who actively worked against the US while an employee of the UN, and enabled two regimes to thwart international law; or that when proven wrong, Alan Colmes will still have his radio show, and big money coming into his bank account.
Lack of accountability isn’t the only thing these two have in common.