Warfront With Jihadistan: Elevating the Muslim Brotherhood

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Digest · July 8, 2011
National Security
Warfront With Jihadistan: Elevating the Muslim Brotherhood
We thought it was impossible for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to top her previous statement calling Syria's Bashar al-Assad a "reformer," but one just shouldn't underestimate the Clintons. Late last week, as most Americans had their attention focused on the upcoming Independence Day holiday, Clinton let loose this howler: "We believe ... that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence, that intend to compete for the [Egyptian] parliament and the presidency. And we welcome, therefore, dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with us." It's bad enough that the usual assortment of useful idiots on the Left advise dealing with the Brotherhood as just another political party. But for the Obama administration to legitimize a terrorist organization in this way is both foolish and dangerous.

There is no way to square the words "parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence" with the Muslim Brotherhood's own stated goal of destroying Western civilization and imposing Sharia law at gun point. We should no more be talking to them about Egypt's political future than we should talk to the Revolutionary Guard Corps about Iran's future. The only future the Brotherhood sees for Egypt is the Saudi style of government, but with even less religious tolerance and respect for democratic principles, if that's possible. Steering Egypt toward some kind of modern, democratic government was going to be hard enough. Now Obama and Clinton have invited the sworn enemies of those values into the process.