{"id":29256,"date":"2011-01-30T02:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T10:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=29256"},"modified":"2011-01-30T03:24:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T11:24:56","slug":"yisroel-pensack-barack-and-mubarak-were-on-top-of-the-world-trade-center-mubarak-fell-off-who-was-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=29256","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: Barack and Mubarak Were on Top of the World Trade Center; Mubarak Fell Off — Who Was Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an article<\/a> on the Egyptian crisis headlined “Obama Presses for Change but Not a New Face at the Top,” David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper of The New York Times report:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Obama<\/a>\u2019s decision to stop short, at least for now, of calling for Hosni Mubarak<\/a>\u2019s resignation was driven by the administration\u2019s concern that it could lose all leverage over the Egyptian president, and because it feared creating a power vacuum inside the country, according to administration officials involved in the debate…<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s restraint is also driven by the fact that, for the United States, dealing with an Egypt without Mr. Mubarak would be difficult at best, and downright scary at worst. For 30 years, his government has been a pillar of American foreign policy in a volatile region, not least because of Egypt\u2019s peace treaty with Israel. American officials fear that a new government \u2014 particularly one dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist groups \u2014 may not honor the treaty signed in 1979 by Mr. Mubarak\u2019s predecessor, Anwar el-Sadat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sadat was assassinated two years later, paving the way for Mr. Mubarak…<\/p>\n

…Some officials have compared what is unfolding in Egypt with the uprisings more that three decades ago that led to the ouster of Iran\u2019s shah, and the protests in the Philippines that brought down Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n

In Iran, Washington gambled on the emergence of a government that it could work with, and lost \u2014 a process that one member of the Obama cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates<\/a>, was deeply involved in as a young aide in the Carter administration. In the Philippines, the result was a messy democracy…<\/p>\n

Obama administration officials would like to see a moderate and secular government emerge from the…Egyptian crisis. But in large part because Mr. Mubarak stifled so much political debate and marginalized any opposition, there is no middle ground in Egypt\u2019s politics, no credible secular party that grew up in opposition to Mr. Mubarak\u2019s government. Instead, there is the army, which has long supported Mr. Mubarak\u2019s government, and on the other end of the spectrum, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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