I Told You So

Didn't I tell you that the trip to Syria by Nancy Pelosi would send the wrong message? Didn't I tell you that it would embolden people who need to be slapped down for supporting terrorist groups? Didn't I tell you that inviting the Muslim Brotherhood was a bad idea? Well now I'm proven right, YET AGAIN! An Egyptian blogger named Sandmonkey (his name, for obvious reasons is being obscured) confirms everything I feared would happen when that harpy would appease terrorist states.

On the Democrats embracing Muslim Brotherhood:

Atlas: Where you shocked when Hoyer met with the Muslim Brotherhood?

SANDMONKEY: Let me tell you something. I was in Turkey a couple of weeks ago and I met a couple of Syrian activists. They one thing they told me that was really funny about the Pelosi visit. After Pelosi came to Syria two things happened. People on Syrian TV were saying, "We forced the Americans to knock on the Damascus gate!" Sort of like an admission that we messed things up in Iraq so much that America had to come and beg for their help.

But the day after Pelosi's visits there were immediate arrests of Syrian activists. That was the fruit she yielded. "Oh the Americans came over and they said they have a different foreign policy and they're more interested in placating Bashar's ego." And he went out and got [arrested] everyone he wanted because he knew he had an ally in Washington that wouldn't pressure him as much.

Pay attention here people. There are people in every Middle Eastern country that wants our help, that wants to have the freedoms we have, but they need us to put pressure on these oppressive governments, otherwise nothing will change. You think they can rise up against their government when people are being arrested for being activists?

We cannot afford to abandon these people like we abandoned the Kurds after the first Gulf War. If we help these people get the freedoms that they so desire, it would go a long way. Democrats should "get it" more then Republicans because they are always asking the US government to "get at the root causes of terrorism". Well this is it idiots. You plant the seeds where people can say and do what they want, when they want, people will be more inclined to want to live in peace and raise a family and the normal things that everyone wants. If you have an oppressive regime that blames the US for everything, pretty soon they start believing that stuff and we end up having to defend skyscrapers against hijacked airliners.

So knock it off Nancy, you're doing more harm than good, and the world is laughing at you for doing it. You're showing them that the US is willing to turn a blind eye to those in need, which isn't what the American people are all about. We help those who cannot help themselves. We fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. We don't abandon our friends, and we certainly don't talk to terrorist supporting nations.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com