Monthly Archives: February 2011

I am a Tea-Party conservative, and I support the Egyptian protesters.

First, I refer you to my motto: Freedom is wasted on him who will not make others free.  Everything else is details, which begin here:

• I feel that for the United States to not support the protesters is morally repugnant and strategically counterproductive.
• I feel that President Mubarak should step down, that an experienced interim, caretaker successor should succeed him, and that neither man should stand in the regularly scheduled election next September.
• I feel that this will create an opportunity for (not guarantee) a real democratic structure to emerge and solidify over time.
• I feel that the immediate threat to Egyptian liberty is their current government which the United States seems to support but I do … Continue reading →
  

President Obama, say the ‘D-Word’ – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

This is the conclusion of an article by Mark Levine, Professor of History at UC Irvine. The point he makes is the point I have been making all across Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/afghanmoon), which is that America is failing its first test of Global Counterinsurgency, handed to us at a cost of zero. If we cannot bring ourselves to take the plunge and support the citizens in Cairo and Alexandria struggling to shake off their dictator, then nowehere in the world for a quarter century will our words of “freedom” or “democracy” be believed. We are losing the Long War right now in Egypt, not Afghanistan, not Iraq.

A gift that won’t be offered again
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