2013: What Do We Do Now?

The answer is probably nothing. And the question is how do we act to our friends in the Middle East? To make it simpler all we have to do is recognize that we only have one friend in the Middle East and that is Israel.  The rest of them are our enemies, either overtly or at best, covertly.

The Arab Spring has allowed Islamists to blossom from Yemen to Libya. Even though the guns have not stopped firing, Syria will eventually fall into this same fold and for those who would say we have to support these groups who oppose the current regime because Assad is the worst of the possible outcomes, I need to paraphrase that question from Dr. Phil, “And how is that working out for us?” Name one Arab country that has not chosen to implement a radical Islamic government in place of the deposed dictator?

I am not saying the old despots were pure as the driven snow, but we need to wake up and smell the coffee. Our relationship with the new Arab leadership is not improved and moreover, they have embraced the hard line rhetoric against Israel.

And now we come to Egypt.  Should we be completing a foreign aid package to Egypt that was agreed upon when Hosni Mubarak was president? I think not. Why should an openly hostile government that is punitive in nature to Coptic Christians and openly supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-Israel stance be the recipient of state of the art F-16 jet fighters and M1A1 Abrams tanks?  

President Obama states that the alliance with Egypt is in a state of transition. I think we already know what the end of this transition will be. We shouldn’t be arming this nation to the detriment of our only friend.