I wrote last month that Mitt Romney was ridiculous in his attack on Morsi's election as president of Egypt; it's something he's brought up many times since then, including two of three debates. It was as if Mitt Romney was insinuating that America, via our regular foreign aid contributions to Egypt, should dictate that Egyptians should reject any candidate or political party of America's choosing -- an utter failure of a Democracy!
Elsewhere, other people seemed to think tha a person who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood was necessarily bad for America and Israel. As I first mentioned shortly after he had been elected into office, Morsi spent quite a bit of time in the US a few decades ago; first as a graduate of USC, then as a professor at CSUN. Give the man the benefit of the doubt, having lived among us and seeing and learning about the benefits of a free society, don't you think?
And then this happened yesterday: Egypt brokered a tentative cease fire between Hamas and Israel, and Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom told Israelis that, "It's good for the public to know that the current [Egyptian] leadership is acting against Hamas in a very tough way."
Yes, there remains disputes, fighting, and conflicts will continue, but the sort of FUD that Mitt Romney has been trying to spread by talking about a "failure" of the Obama Administration in allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in Democracy, has now been exposed for the weak rhetoric that it was.
If you want to find fault, look to Qatar. Qatar should NOT be rewarding Hamas' actions with an outpouring of money to build homes and roads. They drove in with a convoy of black Mercedes Benzes and with big smiles, as if they deserve to be patted on the back. That's bullshit.
If Qatar wanted to help the Palestinian people, they should have established a fund worth billions of dollars to establish a free-market Democracy, with the proviso that Palestinians and Hamas agree to accept a two-state solution and disavow the goal to destroy Israel.
Oh wait, I forgot, Qatar isn't a Democracy. [SNARKY COMMENT]
Back to Mitt Romney: Bad for America, bad for the world. Less wars, not more.
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