John Bolton blames the radical "Muslim Brotherhood" for the growing protests in Egypt

[marmar]

FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: I think what's clearly happened today (in Egypt) is that the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist party in Egypt has called it's supporters into the street. I don't think it was present on the first two or three days.

I think after the Friday prayers the Brotherhood brought its people out. That's why the protests are even more extensive today. That constitutes no doubt about it a direct threat to the military government, and I think the failure of the other security forces to bring the demonstrations under control also now explains the presence of the military.

Let me be clear here, this is not just the Mubarak-family government. The military has ruled Egypt since Gamal Nasser and they over through King Farook.

It's the military that is the real government and they are not going to go peacefully. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/28/amb-john-bolton-democracy-coming-eygpt/#ixzz1CNjWpvbc

[DJ13]

1. Muslim Brotherhood

That seems to be the talking point Boogeyman from the right today.

I've run across a couple of righties already claiming that group is responsible.

[Lint Head]

2. JOHN BOLTON is full of shit. the Muslim Brotherhood has been

turned away by the protesters.

[KeepItReal]

9. John Bolton being full of shit is a constant

:-)

[EFerrari]

3. LOL! So, how does he explain the military siding with the protesters?

NeoCons, batshit insane.

[Capitalocracy]

4. I'm surprised he didn't blame it on the UN. nt

[toddaa]

5. I'm just a simple commoner without the vast foreign police experience of Bolton

I thought it was because young educated people can't get jobs.

[socialist_n_TN]

6. Well that settles it then. If John Bolton thinks it a ............

Muslim Brotherhood type uprising, it MUST be a people powered revolution. Anything he (and the RW) says, I'm going to believe the exact opposite.

[sharp_stick]

7. That asshole

wishes the Muslim Brotherhood had that kind of power and influence in Egypt.

John Bolton is quite likely the only man more idiotic than shrub during the boy kings administration.

[sasha031]

8. John Bolton for president

:sarcasm:

[RagAss]

10. Is this Asshole still around?

[underpants]

11. Of course he is- he was the Ambassador to the UN

:sarcasm:

The appointment (and later withdraw of his nomination as he made even Republicans skin crawl) was a Rove/Bush action akin to bulk buying of RW hack writers to create a false creditial. We all knew that.

Yep Bolton will be around for a while. Making a complete ass of himself.

[DCKit]

12. Pissmaker:

[marmar]

13. He wants violence and mayhem even more than the real Yosemite Sam.

nt

[justiceischeap]

14. I guess it being the Sabbath and everyone having the day off had nothing to do w/ it

Yeah, Bolton, lets blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood, 'cause we know when anything happens, we should blame the Muslims. :sarcasm:

I'm not claiming that they aren't involved in a big way but come on...

[robertpaulsen]

15. Hypocrite. What happened to the neo-con/Muslim Brotherhood love?

When Right-Wing Christians and Neocons Loved Islamic Jihadists

In the mid-1950s, the C.I.A. and the British MI6 had developed a close relationship with an Islamic extremist group called the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and forged a partnership with Saudi Arabia to defeat the secular and nationalist policies of Egyptian President Gamal Abddul Nasser. The C.I.A. enabled the Muslim Brotherhood to return from banishment and infect Afghan society with a radical version of Islam that began to supplant the traditional and more moderate indigenous form. According to Gould and Fitzgerald:

The radical Islam of the Muslim Brothers returning to Afghanistan from exile in the late 1960s and early 1970s shared none of the "celebratory, personalized and ecstatic" traits of Afghan Islam -- nor did it offer itself as a political or economic reform movement. Instead, what reentered Afghanistan following its exile was a violent, antimodernist hybrid (described by French expert Olivier Roy as more akin to the extremist Catholic sect Opus Dei than anything native in Afghanistan) which at first challenged the weakened boundaries of the old patriarchy, then in triumph broke free from traditional limits on violence and clan rivalries.

While Afghanistan's progressive King, Zahir Shah, tried to institute modern reform, how mind-boggling is it that the U.S. backed antimodernist fundamentalist Muslims whose goal was to overthrow the constitutional monarchy and establish an Islamic Caliphate?

Fast forward to the late 1970s when a Pentecostal inhabited the White House while neoconservatives, led by hawkish National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, preyed on Carter's ingrained end times theology. Brzezinski pushed forward the agenda of what became known as "Team B" -- a cabal of neocons such as Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Nitze, Seymour Weiss, Richard Pipes, Richard Perle, Daniel O. Graham and Leo Cherne, who exaggerated Soviet nuclear and military capabilities to force U.S. leaders to take a hard line against communism.

more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/when-right-wing-christian_b_704589.html

When it comes to "the devil you know" meme, this is the devil the neo-cons know.