Charles Krauthammer
January 6, 200917 December 2008
He never realized that he would have unleashed a nightmare of Islamic terrorism.
Egypt walked out of a Soviet quagmire into an Islamic one – one that had been brewing all along. They used Soviet Union for their weapons and money and the Soviet Union though they had a big foothold in the Middle East.
Islamists, always powerful in Egypt – the Muslim Brotherhood ever since 1928!
Egypt today is a client State (with Billions of American taxpayers money paying for it) of Islam radicalism.
We have no business using our wealth (actually we borrow the money so we can give it to our enemies.)
Investors Business Daily
5 Dec. 2008
Charles Krauthammer
The barbarism in Mumbai and the economic crisis at home have largely overshadowed an otherwise singular event: the ratification of military and strategic cooperation agreements between Iraq and the United States.
They must not pass unnoted. They were certainly noted by Iran, which fought fiercely to undermine the agreements. Tehran understood how a formal U.S.-Iraqi alliance endorsed by a broad Iraqi consensus expressed in a freely elected parliament changes the strategic balance in the region.
For the United States, it represents the single most important geopolitical advance in the region since Henry Kissinger turned Egypt from a Soviet client into an American ally.
If we don’t blow it with too hasty a withdrawal from Iraq, we will have turned a chronically destabilizing enemy state at the epicenter of the Arab Middle East into an ally.
