Once again, the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week's Watcher's Council match up.
"A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth can even put its pants on." -Mark Twain
This week's winner, Joshuapundit's What The Media Won't Tell You About What's Really Going On In Egypt is my look at the context and the reality of what's occurring in Egypt as opposed to the narrative pushed by the Obama Administration and the legacy media. Here's a slice:
I wrote yesterday that after doing a great deal to destabilize Egypt, President Obama appeared to finally be doing something right for a change...keeping his mouth shut (at least publicly)and concentrating on his golf game.
I should have known better.
Our Dear Leader took some time off from the links to run his mouth, condemning Egypt's declaring a state of emergency, saying what he termed 'traditional cooperation' could not continue, and announcing the cancellation of planned joint exercises between our military and Egypt's.
He also got busy behind the scenes to protect his Muslim Brotherhood pals. President Obama reportedly put in a direct call to Egypt's Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, the military leader behind the ousting of Mahmoud Morsi and the Brotherhood.
He undoubtedly planned to threaten him again with losing the $1.5 billion in aid we give Egypt and to demand again that he free Morsi and the other Brotherhood leaders now in custody. Perhaps our Islamist friendly president is worried that a trial of Morsi and the Brotherhood's Number 2 Khairat el Shater is likely to result in this embarrassing item coming to light.
Al-Sissi refused to take the call.Instead, the president was told politely that the right person for him to speak to was Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour. Obama recognized the insult when he heard it and decided not to bother talking to Mansour.
There's a great deal of verbiage in the legacy media calling al-Sissi a 'Nasser-type figure'. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of being a quasi-Marxist, loud mouth Arab fantasist like the Rais, al-Sissi is a quasi-Islamist, pragmatic, career military general who was smart enough to attend war colleges in both the UK and America and has relationships with army figures in both countries.
Having seen what President Obama is like and whom Obama's in bed with, al-Sissi simply doesn't trust him. Nor does he perceive any need to.
What's going on in Egypt is not some kind of Tien-an-min Square but the creation of another front in Islam's civil war, and it has a direct link to what's going on right now in Syria.
The Saudis, the Emirates and the other GCE countries wrote off our president a long time ago as a clueless, arrogant and deceptive loser. They realize he's incapable of dealing with the threat from Shi'ite Iran, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, which in Egypt particularly had been cozying up to the Ayatollahs. In spite of their theological differences, the Brotherhood and the Iranians agree on the hatred of the west and the Islamist concept of theocracy, the vilayat e fiqh.
In our non-Council category, the winner was Walter Russel Mead in Via Meadea with –Bambi Meets Godzilla in the Middle East submitted by The Razor. It's a look at what Mead sees as the reality of Barack Obama's Middle East strategy and an analysis of it's fsailure.
OK, here are this week’s full results.Only The Mellow Jihadi was unable to vote this week, but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty.:
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit –What The Media Won't Tell You About What's Really Going On In Egypt
- Second place with 3 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room - Torture and Murder in Tennessee – Why No Movement for These Innocents?
- Third place with 2 votes – The Razor -Elementary School Math
- Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – The Right Planet-Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Bayard Rustin, a Socialist
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Glittering Eye-Life in a Dog Pack: Old Age
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – Nice Deb-TX Congressman on NAACP Request For Rodeo Clown Probe: ‘We Can’t Even Get the DOJ to look at Benghazi!’
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews-Erdogan's shocker: Tzipi Livni and Bernard-Henri Levy deposed Morsi
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi-The Art of Caring
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD –Foreign Policy Playbook
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 1/3 votes! – Via Medea-Bambi Meets Godzilla in the Middle East submitted by The Razor
- Second place with 2 votes – Mark Steyn –Consensus in Egypt submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Sultan Knish –The Brotherhood’s Currency of Blood submitted by The Noisy Room
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes -Danger Room - How to Fix the Army: Sack All the Generals submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - Daniel Greenfield - Whose side is Obama on? submitted by The Political Commentator
- Fourth place *t* with 1 votes - Kevin D. Williamson/National Review –The Front Man submitted by The Right Planet
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - The Passing Parade –Phoniness and how to achieve it... submitted by Simply Jews
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Stately McDaniel Manor –Warning: Warning Shots submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Zero Hedge –Is China Doomed? submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -John Hayward/The Conversation –The Rodeo Clown Police understand the power of contempt submitted by Nice Deb
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Joshua Foust – The Miranda Detention: Troubling from all Sides submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Michael Ledeen –The Shape of the Global War submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The College Conservative –TCC’s Guide for Back-To-Campus submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Andrew Klaven –The Sad Fate Of Democrat Women submitted by The Watcher
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