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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (70702)	1/31/2011 12:35:52 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 218554

Obama huge mistake was to assume that the "Arab street" is returning in kind favors for his courtship. If BO would have been smarter he would understand that this is not the way to address 15th century cultural and social order and exercise pressure on Mubarak and other tyrants in the ME. Yes not easy but BO after all he is the president of a superpower. What he managed was losing Turkey, Lebanon and probably Egypt. His conduct related Egypt scared way too many authoritarian leaders in the ME whose population will switch to Islamic extremism in a second. I never considered that I will agree with Dick Morris The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall. The Obama administration, in failing to throw its weight against an Islamic takeover, is guilty of the same mistake that led former President Jimmy Carter to fail to support the shah, opening the door for the Ayatollah Khomeini to take over Iran. The United States has enormous leverage in Egypt -- far more than it had in Iran. We provide Egypt with upwards of $2 billion a year in foreign aid under the provisos of the Camp David accords orchestrated by Carter. The Egyptian military, in particular, receives $1.3 billion of this money. The United States, as the pay master, needs to send a signal to the military that it will be supportive of its efforts to keep Egypt out of the hands of the Islamic fundamentalists. Instead, Obama has put our military aid to Egypt "under review" to pressure Mubarak to mute his response to the demonstrators and has given top priority to "preventing the loss of human life." newsmax.com