Egypt’s generals have done what German generals should have done in 1933

The Obama administration is blinkered and naïve about the radical aims of the Muslim Brotherhood

by Robert R. Reilly

Thirty million people in the streets of Egypt, with the help of the Egyptian military, have saved the United States from the consequences of its disastrous policy of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood since President Barack Obama came to office.

Just months after his inauguration in 2009, Mr Obama appeared in Cairo to address the Muslim world. He insured that members of the Muslim Brotherhood were seated in the front row of the auditorium at Cairo University. Since the group was still officially banned in Egypt, no one from President Hosni Mubarak's administration could attend.

The message from the seating arrangement was unmistakable: even at the price of snubbing his official host, Mr Obama recognized the Muslim Brotherhood as a legitimate player in Egyptian politics. Already, this was clearly interference in the internal affairs of the Egyptian state.

Former British ambassador Charles Crawford later characterized Obama's quixotic address in the following way:

"It boiled down to a well delivered speech full of clever emollient phrases that ultimately sent a message of appeasement to militant Islamist tendencies: Under my restrained leadership the United States will respect and accept conservative forms of Islam. Even if Islamism gets too aggressive we don't plan to do much about it."

Why would the United States want to give the green light to militant Islam? 

Wasn't militant Islam, after all, the problem?

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