Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Egypt Policy – Amateur Hour

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Legal Insurrection:

He now finds himself on the “wrong side of history.”

Leslie Eastman

March 20, 2016

 

In December 2012, Professor Jacobson posted “Barack Morsi“.

 

It turns out the title was truer than he realized.

 

President Obama took the advice of “back-benchers” over experienced security experts to promote the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, creating condition for the usurpation of power by Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi:

 

 

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Given the background, it is completely understandable that Sisi is asking the West to refrain from further Libyan intervention.

 

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has cautioned Western powers against launching a military intervention in Libya and instead urged them to support retired general Khalifa Haftar, based in the eastern parts of the conflict-ridden country.

 

…“If we provide arms and support to the Libyan National Army, it can do the job much better than anyone else, better than any external intervention that would risk putting us in a situation that could get out of hand and provoke uncontrollable developments,” Sisi said in the interview.[/url]

 

When I posted this story on Facebook, many Obama supporters defended the President by saying that the Constitution meant he could ignore the guidance of the national security team.

 

Yes, that is his prerogative. But choices have consequences, and unfortunately the next “President Elect” will be forced to seal the breeches Obama has created among our allies by clearly being on the wrong side of history.

 

Criticizing Obama for these choices is my prerogative.

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