Sarah Palin: Should We Be Borrowing Money From China to Give to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 9:03 AM
No, we shouldn’t be funding the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail announced his intention to run in Egypt’s upcoming presidential elections today.
Sarah Palin asked about Obama’s strange foreign policy of borrowing money from the Chinese to pay to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
From Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page:
Should we be borrowing money from China to turn around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion to Egypt’s “new government.” It’s part of a $20 billion foreign aid package laid out with the Group of 8 countries in Europe today.Now, given that Egypt has a history of corruption when it comes to utilizing American aid, it is doubtful that the money will really help needy Egyptian people. Couple that with the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is organized to have a real shot at taking control of Egypt’s government, and one has to ask why we would send money (that we don’t have) into unknown Egyptian hands?
Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy. And throwing borrowed money around the developing world is not sound foreign policy. Foreign assistance should go to American allies that need it and appreciate it, and for humanitarian purposes when it can truly make a difference.Considering the Obama Administration’s continued strange strategies on the economy and foreign policy has us counting down the days to the next election. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.
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Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Ahh, but just remember! Sarah Palin is stoopit! She doesn’t really know anything, she’s just a hick from Alaska, with no real knowledge of poltiics, and she didn’t attend an Ivy League College!
/Okay, sarc. off.
Sickofobama commented:
That signs like a firing shot to me!
No Sarah, Obama shouldn’t be borrowing from the ChiComs to give to his kinfolk!
Tom63010 commented:
What can’t come soon enough is the announcement that Sarah Palin is running for President of the United States.
Joe College commented:
We never should have overtly stuck our noses into Egyptian politics in order to overthrow an American ally. If we actually had some good reason in the national interest, and the Egyptian interest, to overthrow Mubarak then a maybe a covert operation might be considered. But not a public demonstration showing the world how dangerous it is to be America’s friend.
We are now in the ridiculous situation where many Americans buy Chinese goods with government benefits from borrowed Chinese money. In other words, the government is paying us with Chinese money to stay home and not work and buy Chinese goods. We have made the Chinese a player in our welfare state. I can only quote Obi Wan Kanobe: Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
Bobbi commented:
And, he’s so keen on cutting money to “career colleges” here, which disburse financial aid primarily to the impoverished who are trying to pull themselves up with their bootstraps. It’s pretty easy to “read” his perverted mind.
Gman commented:
You would think that only in bizzaro world would we give billions to countries that want to kill us and Jews.
It is like the Arab world is the bully and we keep giving them our milk money.
Oldsailor commented:
If we were all paying attention we would see that this is a way for Obama to bundle more money to send to the DNC. Small untracable donations. I bet they rake in a couple of hundred million.
Scott commented:
It’s worse than borrowing money Sarah, Obozo will have Dr. Bernanke put another truckload of paper on the printing press. You see, our Federal Reserve is the biggest buyer of our bonds now. Foreigners and hedge funds know better than to buy into a currency that is depreciating.
arnonerik commented:
If you were President and your goals were to collapse the American economy, undermine our military and our allies, and encourage and prop up our enemies what would you do different from what Obama is doing? If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is most assuredly not a patriot.
Angry African commented:
No, we should not borrow money from China to fund Muslims…
Instead, we should borrow ICBM’s from our nuclear arsenal and rain them down on China and the Middle East…
Scullman commented:
Has anyone else taken a position on this crazy policy, anywhere else in our media?
Anybody?
Anywhere?
Yeah. Sarah Palin is just such an airhead.
Let’s see which RINO climbs on board the copycat express. Timmy? Newt? Mitty?
We are in such deep s**t with this current crop of candidates.
Disastrous.
Robert commented:
WTF wants to “invest in the future” of Egypt. That means he wants to give them money.
Whenever he says “invest” someone is getting money for nothing, except maybe voting for him.
Just_Saying commented:
Thank you, Sarah. You, as always, ask the right questions and raise the right concerns!
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Tawny Jones commented:
On economic, energy, foreign, & domestic policy, Sarah Palin is right on the issues, right for America.
man_in_tx commented:
So, the real question here is: Will the rubber-spined RINO Leadership (McConnell & Boehner) even make a peep to oppose approving the President’s plan to break the bank (even more than it is already broken) to send aid to a country held in thrall to the Muslim Brotherhood? I am not holding my breath. How about Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, et al? Will they stand up? For me, this is a Foreign Aid “bridge” too far. It must be STOPPED.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Here’s what I fear will happe:
Palin is just too stoopit, and doesn’t sound good in debates. Also, she doesn’t have a deep voice, and “gravitas” (whatever that means.) Cain is too—ugh!—socially conservative. Pawlenty is dull. Nobody really likes Romney that much. All the great R hopes, like Giuliani, and Trump, either decide not to run after all, or don’t campaign when they do. Christie might have some bad Islamic ties.
In short, none of the R candidates will be perfect; not libertarian enough, they haven’t read enough Ayn Rand, they’re too—ugh!—socially conservative, too religious, too this, too that—or they just drop out of the race altogether.
We’ll end up with some safe candidate, a nice RINO who doesn’t threaten anybody, with plenty of “gravitas” (whatever that means) who will get creamed when he comes up against the wonderful O, or the supporters of Ron Paul will get together in a block—because they’ve got no doubts whatsoever about their candidate—and get him on the ballot. He’s already doing well in NH.
And won’t that be fun? /Sarc.
Valerie commented:
#4 May 29, 2011 at 9:24 am
Joe College commented:
Joe, we had been involved in Egypt for decades in the right way, by helping them build up an accountable military, and not incidently, bringing their people over here for training. It may have looked like military spending, but it was the kind that helped a result everybody — Israel, Egypt, and the US –wanted, because it helped buy thirty years of peace, and salted Egyptian society with about a half a million people impatient with inefficiency and injustice.
This juncture was going to come, regardless of what we would want: Mubarak made a decision to hang onto power, and stayed in power through increasingly corrupt means. Then he announced that he would not run for President in the elections scheduled for this September. The demonstrations came because the police who have been for years ostentatiously opposing the Muslim Brotherhood and actually jailing pro-democracy bloggers, tortured and killed a young man, and there was no followup investigation by the Mubarak government.
The US government has for years been advising Mubarak that he should encourage more rather than less reliable democratic process, and warned him of the consequences.
I had very much hoped to see a statement of support for both Mubarak and the pro-democracy demonstrators from BO. BO squandered an opportunity to calm things down and help assure a smoother, more-likely-to-be-positive transition. He could have expressed thanks to Mubarak for being a friend, and for keeping the peace for 30 years. He could have said something about the hard choices that such a course demands. He could have also recognized the legitimacy of the demands of the demonstrators, and the essential patriotism and goodwill undergirding both sides. He could have encouraged peaceful negotiation and the formation of a more perfect union from what is already a good society. He could also have stated our fears, for any such nexus in a society has the potential of violence, and for loss of freedom, and setback. He could have asked both sides to offer their good will to one another, and their best efforts on behalf of a country both sides love.
That is, all he had to do is describe the real situation on the ground as it was, acknowledge our fears, and ask both sides to listen to their better angels.
And indeed, that is what both sides wanted. Instead, he waits too long, until after Code Pink has had a chance to muck around in things they don’t understand, offering money all around, be rejected by the Jan 25 group, and cozy up to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I hope those Americans who have friends in Egypt, particularly the military and their families, make contact with them, and encourage them. The situation is by no means lost, but the present US administration is no help.
The guy with the bully pulpit cannot use it, because he doesn’t understand the fundamentals of democracy, or the value of individual liberty, or how that liberty is secured by the rule of law, or the proper and useful role religion can play in a free society.
tommy mc donnell commented:
20 billion for islamic egypt and tunisia.
2.4 billion for columbia
2 billion for brazil
1 billion for mexico
all of this from a country that is so broke it has to borrow money from a communist country.
anybody think that money would do more good in the paycheck of an american worker.
Petra commented:
You can always link pieces together that dont connect.
Bush and friends have borrowed money to fund Hussein, the Taliban and even Al Qaida.
Supporting the new government in Egypt is sound foreign politics as it ensures US influence in the region.
Valerie commented:
#19 Petra “Bush and friends borrowed money to fund … Al Qaida”
got cite? Thought not. The Clinton administration hunted Al Qaida, and the Bush administration continued this policy.
Meanwhile, in the real world, there is a call for a Bill of Rights for the Egyptian constitution
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2011/05/29/the-egyptian-bill-of-rights/
May they secure it, and may their ordinary people find the wherewithall to enforce it.
NorthernX commented:
Well. Expect lots more of this nonsense in the coming months.
There’s not much time left to run your country into the ground…
Stuart commented:
It weakens the United States, it strengthens the Moslem Brotherhood.
I think that’s a win win as far as Comrade Zero is concerned.
#1AMERICAN commented:
odumbass has a deal with the people he is giving money to…they are saving billions for him when he is not re-elected so he can become emporer of rag head nations
Gman commented:
Petra,
Wow…pathetic argument.
We funded Hussein to fight a bigger evil in Iran. We funded the Mujahideen to fight a bigger Evil in the Soviet Union.
Please tell me why we are funding Egypt and the other ME countries now? I’m sure in your mind and Obama’s it is to fight the bigger evil in Israel huh?
jennifer commented:
This guy looks like a president in the making. Notice the smile!
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Not to mention—what the heck are we doing in Libya, anyway? At first, it was just supposed to last a few weeks! Now, well. . .
(And no congressional approval after 60 days.)
mcc commented:
The heck with the smile, I’m looking at the ears. The ears! I think we’ve found Barry’s daddy.
aprilnovember811 commented:
I think Obama is working with the Muslim Brotherhood and Weather Underground. He is just stealing money from Americans. What a better way to do it than hide all of your documents, run for President, get elected, and loot the treasury. He can just play naive, and call it policy. Then he will rely on those that call him ignorant of what he is doing, when he is no such thing. He’s just so inexperienced, right?
jondos commented:
You know we have a problem if we even have to ask ourselves these questions!
Andrew commented:
$20 billion is the money allocated by the G-8, US and the other European economies. Out of this about $2 billion is meant for Egypt Which will be used by the current military Govt. to avoid rule by Muslim Brotherhood in the forth coming elections. Like in the past that money may not be given if US interests are not well served. The money will serve our purpose to stop MB from coming to power. So Palin relax, don’t mis-inform and scare the people.