Legal Commentary

Still more mush from the wimp ? this time re the Muslim Brotherhood

By Beldar

I really, really hope that in his campaign for re-election, President Obama will make heavy use of that elder statesman of the Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter. After all, what he has to say in general, and what he has to say in particular about the Middle East, Carter is exactly as credible as Mrs. O'Leary's cow giving a lecture on fire prevention. The latest proof, delivered by the old gasbag from the LBJ Center in Austin (bracketed portion mine, parenthetical by the American-Statesman):

[LBJ Library Director Mark] Updegrove, who characterized Carter as the president most associated with the Middle East, having helped to broker a peace accord between Egypt and Israel in 1978, asked the former president how the United States should view the Muslim Brotherhood, an influential group in Egypt that has ties to Hezbollah and may influence Egypt in the future.

"I think the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be afraid of in the upcoming (Egyptian) political situation and the evolution I see as most likely," Carter said. "They will be subsumed in the overwhelming demonstration of desire for freedom and true democracy."

Yes, absolutely! We should no more fear the Muslim Brotherhood than we should fear, say, that a bunch of "students" might "spontaneously" decide to take over an American embassy and hold everyone there hostage for 444 days. Couldn't possibly happen, huh, Mr. Carter?

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on February 16, 2011 (boomark / email).