Washington Post syndicated columnist
David Ignatius, in a column Sunday entitled "Morsi's U.S. Enablers,"
uses unusually critical language to go after President NerObama for
promoting new Islamist dictators in Southwest Asia.
"How did Washington become the best friend of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, even as President Mohamed Morsi was asserting dictatorial powers and his followers were beating up secular liberals in the streets of Cairo?" asks Ignatius in opening his column. "Let's be honest: The Obama Administration has been Morsi's main enabler." Ignatius writes that Obama has "made a 'cosmic wager' on the Muslim Brotherhood," and concludes, "It's crazy for Washington to appear to take sides against those who want a liberal, tolerant Egypt, and for those who favor sharia. Somehow, that's where the administration has ended up."
Ignatius' sanitized version of a truth-telling attack does not mention al-Qaeda, nor Obama's unleashing of it in Libya and Syria.
On Sunday, while many international media were parroting that Morsi had "stepped back," amid massive street protests, from his decree "temporarily" granting himself dictatorial and unreviewable powers, the Muslim Brotherhood president actually did the opposite. The New York Times finally reported late Sunday, "Mr. Morsi on Sunday issued an order placing security over government institutions in the hands of the military until after the results of Saturday's referendum, the Associated Press reported. The order, which will take effect on Monday, also grants soldiers the right to arrest civilians." The Times noted that the order "is interpreted as martial law." It was written for him at his request by the Armed Forces.
Air force F-16 warplanes flew low over the city center for the first time since the demonstrations against Mubarak. The official MENA news agency described the unusually low flyover as an exercise against "hostile air attacks and to secure important state installations."
The Obama Administration is continuing to call for "unconditional dialogue" between the Morsi martial law government and the demonstrators — precisely the same demand being made by Morsi, and publicly by the Army.
"How did Washington become the best friend of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, even as President Mohamed Morsi was asserting dictatorial powers and his followers were beating up secular liberals in the streets of Cairo?" asks Ignatius in opening his column. "Let's be honest: The Obama Administration has been Morsi's main enabler." Ignatius writes that Obama has "made a 'cosmic wager' on the Muslim Brotherhood," and concludes, "It's crazy for Washington to appear to take sides against those who want a liberal, tolerant Egypt, and for those who favor sharia. Somehow, that's where the administration has ended up."
Ignatius' sanitized version of a truth-telling attack does not mention al-Qaeda, nor Obama's unleashing of it in Libya and Syria.
On Sunday, while many international media were parroting that Morsi had "stepped back," amid massive street protests, from his decree "temporarily" granting himself dictatorial and unreviewable powers, the Muslim Brotherhood president actually did the opposite. The New York Times finally reported late Sunday, "Mr. Morsi on Sunday issued an order placing security over government institutions in the hands of the military until after the results of Saturday's referendum, the Associated Press reported. The order, which will take effect on Monday, also grants soldiers the right to arrest civilians." The Times noted that the order "is interpreted as martial law." It was written for him at his request by the Armed Forces.
Air force F-16 warplanes flew low over the city center for the first time since the demonstrations against Mubarak. The official MENA news agency described the unusually low flyover as an exercise against "hostile air attacks and to secure important state installations."
The Obama Administration is continuing to call for "unconditional dialogue" between the Morsi martial law government and the demonstrators — precisely the same demand being made by Morsi, and publicly by the Army.
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