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How the Arab Spring Unleashed Al Qaeda
January 7, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
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Open up a national newspaper and flip to the stories about the Middle East. The daily toll of bombings and shootings, starving refugees and demolished cities have little resemblance to the cheerful stories about the transformation of the Middle East that were running during the boom days of the Arab Spring.
There isnt much mention of the Arab Spring anymore. The same media outlets that were predicting that the Middle East was about to turn into Europe have fallen silent. They are eager to forget their own lies.
But it was the Arab Spring that unleashed this horror. The Arab Spring was not an outburst of popular democratic sentiment. It was a power struggle of a clearly sectarian nature. It was the rise of Sunni Islam under the black and white Salafist flags.
Obama and his people favored takeovers by moderate Salafi groups that appeared to accept Western ideas such as democracy and modernization. The moderate Salafis however worked closely with their immoderate Salafi cousins playing a game of Good Salafi and Bad Salafi with America.
The moderate Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt opened the door for Al Qaeda in the Sinai. Its Syrian branch, along with other moderate Salafist militias in the Free Syrian Army, fought alongside the Al-Nusra Front which was then Al Qaeda in Syria.
The takeovers led to civil war in Egypt and Syria and escalated a sectarian regional conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. The biggest beneficiary of the Arab Spring was Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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How the Arab Spring Unleashed Al Qaeda | FrontPage Magazine
I think the Obama administration knew what was coming all along. The Muslim Brotherhood wasn't exactly secret about their mission and many people predicted this. I don't think Obama is so naïve that he didn't know the MB was poised to take over Egypt and keep going. He helped them.
Andrew McCarthy was the Federal prosecutor in the first WTC bombing.
He says:
"This seems to me as meaningful a distinction as whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a notorious Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, had some formal understanding with the group or was merely a champion of Islamic supremacists who happened to be in charge of shaping American foreign policy. "
Red herrings by Andrew C. McCarthy - The New Criterion