Egypt
Barack Obama's Middle East Miscalculation
A modest prediction:
The Egyptian economy, using the latter term loosely, is a wasted disaster that stays about a week ahead of food riots only by providing cheap bread heavily subsidized with borrowed money. As the new government discovers that Sharia law is not a substitute for foreign aid when it comes to the food supply, it will launch a campaign to blame its failures on "enemies of Islam." Israel and the U.S. will be at the very top of that list. Egypt and soon-to-be-nuclear Iran, recognizing their common interests, will become fast friends and cooperative partners on multiple fronts.
Among the internationalist intellectuals in the Obama Administration, this happy sequence of events is called "Smart Power foreign policy."
Byron
A modest prediction:
The Egyptian economy, using the latter term loosely, is a wasted disaster that stays about a week ahead of food riots only by providing cheap bread heavily subsidized with borrowed money. As the new government discovers that Sharia law is not a substitute for foreign aid when it comes to the food supply, it will launch a campaign to blame its failures on "enemies of Islam." Israel and the U.S. will be at the very top of that list. Egypt and soon-to-be-nuclear Iran, recognizing their common interests, will become fast friends and cooperative partners on multiple fronts.
Among the internationalist intellectuals in the Obama Administration, this happy sequence of events is called "Smart Power foreign policy."
Byron
posted by Byron | Saturday, January 21, 2012
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