"So far, they're not backing down from one of the region's most brutal regimes, financed and supported by imperial Washington, maneuvering to keep it empowered as a reliable vassal state."

I guess when Egypt was run by anti-U.S. anti-Israel leader Nasser, who lost the Six-Day War, Lendman liked it better? He wants the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power? They're not really so bad, because they renounced terrorism, unlike their devil's spawn Hamas? Of course, it's not terrorism to invade and exterminate Israel, it's a religious thang. Face it, the U.S. can't cure Egypt's basic ills of addiction to the mental virus of ISLAM without a massive invasion followed by taking the children away for a generation and giving them free Islam-free secular education. But that option's not on the table with Lendman, because what he really wants is an Iranian-style revolution that turns Egypt into a new weapon against Israel so that his Saudi funders get their money's worth. His love of calling Mubarak's regime "thuggish" is laughable in the face of his silence about Islamic regimes including Saudi Arabia and Iran, or the horrible anti-Jewish hate spewed by Palestinians, whom he paints as angels. The few billion a year the U.S. spends on paying jizya to Egypt and other Islamic countries to keep them from attacking and losing again to Israel isn't the root cause of Egypt's problems, but it can sure be cut off when they renege on their peace treaty with Israel. Lendman's sick twisted belief that the U.S. is always the bad guy won't work with Islam, because its evil is far more ancient and terrible than anything the West can even think of, sorry. All they need to prove it is to get their hands on some nukes, which we can't allow, so hopefully Obama will soon pass and a new president who loves America can finally order the much-needed invasion of Iran to dismantle its WMDs. Ironically, anybody in Egypt who chucks Islam is subject to the death penalty, no matter what regime is in power, or a hit by a Muslim per a fatwa from a cleric, which the govt. won't lift a finger to stop or prosecute. Egypt's problem isn't the U.S., it's Islam, sorry.

Read the Historyscoper's Islam Watch Blog for free daily links to world news:

http://tinyurl.com/islamwatch