The 3 Stooges In Cairo

I suppose it was better to have these bean-brains in Egypt saying incredibly stoopid things rather than having them at home where some people actually still listen to them when they say incredibly stoopid things.

And while everybody but the Amazing Shrinking Minority was busily trying to ignore this performance, can we at least ask why these boobs think it's OK for them to conduct a little ad lib Foreign Policy?



From a NYT takedown:

President Obama has threatened to cut Egypt’s military aid if the new government does not take swift steps toward a credible, inclusive democracy, including lifting its boot off the Brotherhood. But scholars said Sunday that the ill-informed comments in Cairo suggested that the outsize fears of Islamist extremism among some in Congress may be undermining the administration’s efforts.

“We have a confluence of interests among the coup leaders in Egypt and Islamophobes in the Congress,” said Samer Shehata, a political scientist at the University of Oklahoma who studies Egypt and the Brotherhood.
He called the lawmakers’ statements “utterly absurd” and compared the conference to “a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit — unbelievable, ludicrous, almost comic if it wasn’t so painful.”

Shadi Hamid, research director of the Brookings Doha Center, said it was especially “concerning” that members of Congress appeared “so unaware of the basic facts of 9/11.”

All three are outspoken social conservatives who previously raised alarms about alleged infiltration of the United States government by the Muslim Brotherhood as well. Mrs. Bachmann has a particular reputation for attention-grabbing statements, for instance attributing the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed an American ambassador last year to God’s judgment.

Brotherhood leaders say the group has denounced the use of violence as a political tool in Egypt for a half-century. It condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which were, in fact, carried out by Al Qaeda. The Brotherhood has explicitly opposed the theology and tactics of violent Islamist groups like Al Qaeda for decades, and Al Qaeda scorns the Brotherhood for its commitment to nonviolence, elections and gradual change.