Prime time: You might want to pass this along.

Friday – February 11, 2011

Prime time: You might want to pass this along.

There is a huge sucking sound coming from the Middle East. It’s called a vacuum I’m not talking about a Hoover or a Dyson. The Egyptian military is now in the process of aligning itself. It is dangerous for any country to rely solely upon the military to bring order and continuity to the country when there is internal strife.

News reporting outlets in Egypt and the Middle East are now reporting that Hozni Mubarak’s Vice President Omar Suleiman is now the DeFacto President. Some are now saying that Suleiman is a CIA plant of the United States. In a power vacuum, disinformation is used to either compliment the situation or to cause for further internal disorder.

The disinformation yesterday was that Mubarak was going to step down. This was good for the opposition forces moral. But the disinformation of Suleiman being a plant for the U.S. was good for only one group, that being the Muslim Brotherhood, who is now organized to take over.

I have spent considerable time this week on the question of the brotherhood, terrorism and its member groups. I am concerned that our Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the “Muslim Brotherhood is largely a secular organization.” The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood is: “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.” The stated goals of the brotherhood are the danger and if we don’t understand this then we will never understand anything in the Middle East.

I am concerned that our intelligence sources did not act upon any of the information that was known about the turmoil that lead up to the protests in Egypt. I am concerned that we will throw an ally overboard and not protest that actions of other allies when they do wrong. I am concerned that there is no intelligence in Washington D.C. I don’t particularly enjoy showing any prejudice in my opinions unless there is considerable evidence to do so.

There is much evidence that points to how these terror groups organize and how they shape their message to recruit. Some call for a fundamental transformation. The key word here is fundamental. This word also translates to what is the fundamentalist’s desire - an Islamic State that borders Israel. This is all being done under the guise of peace and change for the future.

The future is here. There are now reports of violence on the Egyptian and Gaza borders. In addition, yesterday’s events have now sparked numerous protests in Jordan and Algeria calling out for fundamental change. Yes, there is now a vacuum in the center of the Middle East. This weekend will be a pivotal point in maintaining the peace. It will be a pivotal point in who will fill the vacuum that has now been created.

We all hope for peace and true brotherhood that will spur on a democracy in Egypt and beyond in the Middle East. However, a democracy will never survive where the enemies of democracy will pervert it. This is the history of the region.

When people aren’t ready for prime time they will revert back to the reruns. My fear is that a rerun of history will now play out in the most unstable of environments. Violence and war in the region is now a real possibility, because of the converging forces that are at play. Mubarak will not step down until September this should be enough for everyone to seek the reforms that are necessary to ensure that the seeds of democracy are well planted. However, in a vacuum nothing can be planted except for more revolt which encourages political and religious uncertainty. This is the history of the region.

Our adversaries believe that our government is weak and ill prepared because there are amateurs in charge that are not ready for prime time. Every political event that has occurred around the world be it Iran, North Korea and now Egypt over the last two years has been met with a naïveté that ignores the facts and does not understand the threat. It has been met with a speech filled with rhetoric. Empty words make for empty policy. This is why our allies feel they cannot trust or afford to listen to us anymore. This is why our enemies make the provocative moves that they do. This is the history of the region.

In my research, I have come across many quotes in history that, hopefully, has supported my view and stance on the many issues that I have written and spoken about. Today, I have two quotes that should send alarming shivers up any ones spine as we are now confronted with losing Egypt, as we lost Iran.

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

“In the seventh century of the Christian era a wandering Arab, of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combing the powers of transcendent genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.

Adopting, from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God, he connected indissolubly with it the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.

He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in the characters, a war of more than twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there never can be peace on earth and good will toward men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” John Adams, 1830

–John Quincy Adams, “Christianity—Islamism.” “Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece,” originally published in The American Annual Register for 1827—1829 (New York, 1830), Chs. X-XIV: 267—402.

Winston Churchill on Islam:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

These men were ready for prime time. They knew the direction they must go because they knew history. They knew what America was and what Europe had to be.

These are not my words. The words of Adams were spoken over two and fifty years ago. The words of Churchill were spoken some sixty years ago. Don’t trust me, trust the men of history whose words have been passed down to us to observe, read and understand.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: I put a lot of trust in the words of history because many of the leaders that I have researched and have become fond of were ready for prime time. The ones that I disfavor are the ones that aren’t ready for prime time and who will jeopardize my security and my families security because of their inability to understand what history’s story tell us.