The Arab World’s Uncertain Future

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About 32 percent of Arab world residents, age 15 and above, cannot read or write.  It’s more than double the illiteracy rate for similarly aged residents of non-Arab countries.  In Somalia, Yemen, and Morocco, illiteracy rates are 62 percent, 50 percent, and 48 percent respectively.  Females have a much greater illiteracy rate than males.

African Muslim racial genocide has raged in the Sudan’s Darfur region for years with up to 400,000 killed and 2.5 million displaced.   The International Criminal Court indicted Sudan’s Arab President, Omar al-Bashir, for these atrocities.  The Arab League’s response was to decisively reject the indictment, apparently more interested in protecting its brethren rather than innocent human life.

Nineteen of the world’s 44 foreign terrorist organizations, designated by the U.S. State Department, have gestated and operate in the Arab world. While the primary aim of most of them is to destroy the only Middle East democracy, Israel, and greatly diminish U.S. regional and global influence, the vast majority of their victims have been innocent Muslims. Radical Islamists use a dangerous mix of politics and religion to target for recruitment the abused, misinformed, impoverished, under-educated, and others to become participants in various jihad movements.  Two terror groups with strong ties to Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, have effectively taken over the Lebanon and Gaza Strip governments.

The euphoria of change is spreading across the Arab world, and many wonder which domino is next to fall.  However, these regime changes must be tempered with the understanding that they may not translate into the desired liberal democracy many demonstrators, and their Western supporters, seek.  Alarmingly, these revolts are opening a Pandora’s Box of chaos best suited for those most viscerally opposed to secular society under the rule of man-made law.  Even as jubilant youthful crowds dance in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the Iranian regime and Muslim Brotherhood are conspiring to fill leadership vacuums and achieve their longstanding goals.

To give Arabs a better chance at experiencing true freedom, President Obama should (1) encourage genuine freedom-seeking Arabs to facilitate much needed changes to political, economic, judicial and educational institutions before holding elections, otherwise a rush to democracy could spell its destruction in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere; (2) declare that America stands for the rights of people everywhere to freely govern themselves and to hold their governments accountable for their acts; and (3) significantly alter his failed policy of extending an “open hand” to dictators, tyrants and terrorists under the auspices of pursuing dubious U.S. foreign policy objectives and an elusive peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.

Above all, President Obama should publicly proclaim that America’s and the Free World’s interests are best served by defending Free states, promoting freedom, and supporting legitimate freedom movements in the Arab world or wherever else they sprout.  Where freedom flourishes, war abates and people prosper. It’s mankind’s best hope.

Fred Gedrich is a foreign affairs and national security analyst.  He served in the U.S. Departments of Defense and State and has traveled extensively in the Arab world.

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  • Wesley69

    I would submit that Obama is interested in the revolutions in the Mideast, BUT HIS IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT AGENDA.

    In the book, THE ROOTS OF OBAMA'S RAGE, by DINESH D'SOUZA, I believe one can get an understanding of how Obama's mind is working and it is not good for us.
    It is not incompetent execution of policy. While it is a policy of appeasement, it is more.

    D’Souza makes an interesting observation. In Obama’s first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, Barack Obama Sr. believes that the colonial powers of Britain, France and others owe their wealth and power to the native populations that they have crushed, robbing them of their natural resources. When Britain and France faded after WWII, the strongest colonial power became the United States. It is the new oppressor. The dreams of the father became the dreams of the son.

    Obama is determined to humble the United States, wringing the colonial ideas and components from it. Hence his hatred for the rich, the corporations, the banks, which he feel didn’t get their wealth fairly, but on the backs of others.

    His treatment of US allies – they are colonial powers and are guilty of the same crimes as the US. Israel is a creation of the imperialists, hence Obama has no sympathy for it. Think about it, when has the President ever supported a resolution condemning Israel for its settlements in the West Bank????? Yet, he demands nothing of thePalestinians. His attempt to extend Constitutional Rights to Terrorists???????? Whose side is he on????

    Obama's support for the Mideast revolutions – he does not care about a democratic outcome. He wants to see the pro-Western government overthrown or at least questioning their alliance with such an ally. Yet, Obama is clever, by hiding behind the call for human rights, he achieves his objective, a containment of the largest ROGUE STATE – that being the US.

    I recommend this book. It is a fantastic and easy read. It has opened my mind about Obama and provides me with a rational for what he is doing But as D’Souza points out, the US is being governed by the dreams of an anti-colonial Luo tribesman of the 1950’s.

    • DEMONCRATWATCH

      Wesley69's post is RIGHT ON TARGET!
      One shouldn't be surprise to hear BO gleefully say, "I LOVE IT WHEN MY PLANS COME TOGETHER" ; YoHo Obamaroid and his 100 millions of thieves.

      • DEMONCRATWATCH

        Wesley69's post is RIGHT ON TARGET!
        Regarding The Arab World’s Uncertain Future, we who are Bible and Jehovah God believers and thus who belong, lock stock and barrel to the Lord, fail to see how one could conclude the future of the Islamic/Muslims to be in question . . . and believe it certainly will not include the advertised prize that include a harem of virgin girls and young boys as reportedly promised but quite the contrary: facilities justly deserved and conveniently provided for eternity, especially prepared for each of those whose god is Satan regardless of the 'brand of religion' claimed. .

  • Robert Laity

    "Caliph" Obama is ushering IN "Dar-el-Salaam". Obama is NOT the POTUS and is a radical Islamic supremacist. Wise up People: http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/08/17/there-is-nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUaGe63Aqv4
    See 18USC,Part 1,Chapter 115,Sec.2381

  • http://www.cleanroomhepafilter.com Dalila Gilroy

    Could hardly have mentioned it better myself.