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Not a Neighborly Day in the Brotherhood
Yesterday’s embassy stoning sets the stage for Egyptian President Morsi’s upcoming visit to the U.S. (UPDATED )
The storming yesterday of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt should not come as a surprise to those who have been following the increasingly volatile situation in that country, and as the radical Islamic organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, takes great control there. The embassy violence also comes at an inconvenient time, as the U.S. relationship with Egypt was already being tested by its new president, Mohammed Morsi, who will visit the U.S. later this month.
For a number of reasons the Morsi visit is important. Even if one is hesitant to blame the Obama Administration for badly calibrating the U.S. response to last year’s “Arab Spring” uprising and the revolution in Egypt, it appears that this newly elected president is ready to bring Egypt into a full embrace of radical Islam, with stronger ties to Iran, and, as the embassy-storming indicates, a very different relationship with America .
So who is Mohammed Morsi? He was an influential member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which spearheaded the people’s revolution. Once elected to office earlier this year, Morsi resigned his membership, though he has placed Muslim Brothers in virtually every part of Egypt’s government, has endorsed the inclusion of Sharia law in a rewritten Egyptian constitution, and seems content to let his friends pursue whatever extremist activities they feel necessary to bring their fellow citizens into line with the Brotherhood’s radical agenda. Just last month, Middle Eastern media outlets reported:
[P]rotestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others. Likewise, Muslim Brotherhood supporters locked the doors of the media production facilities of 6-October [a major media region in Cairo], where they proceeded to attack several popular journalists.
As noted by Lawrence Haas in a recent column:
[Morsi] promised to push Washington to release the “Blind Shiekh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman, who’s serving time for the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center. He also released jailed terrorists, including members of the dangerous Gama’a Islamiya and Islamic Jihad.
Morsi embraced the Holocaust-denying, Israel-threatening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at an Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia.… Sent tanks into the Sinai and reportedly plans to send more along with rockets and helicopters, though the [1979 Egyptian-Israeli] treaty calls for a demilitarized peninsula to serve as a buffer between Egypt and Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood’s media adviser recently called the treaty a “mark of shame” that brought “cancer, hepatitis, and kidney infections” to Egypt.”
It should be noted that the U.S. for more than 30 years has provided more than $1 billion in aid annually to Egypt — much of it in the form of “foreign military financing.” But rather than visit the nation that has provided tens of billions of aid to his country and served as a strategic partner, Morsi chose to visit Iran and China first, thus removing any doubts as to whether Morsi was a politician capable of playing to his home base. The result: talks of bail out payments from China and oil-sale deals with Iran. Just this week it was announced that Egypt was open to purchasing Iranian oil that was sitting in an Egyptian port, or possibly serving as a middle man to sell the oil for Iran, a move that would undercut international sanctions.
In fact, while Morsi has made critical comments about the massacre in Syria while visiting that regime’s key benefactor, Iran, he has shown at the least a willingness to deal with Tehran to Egypt’s and possibly Iran’s benefit. To counter, the U.S. has offered the prospect of securing billions of dollars in aid, with Morsi apparently receiving no pressure from the Obama administration to help end Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons or to ending the violence against Muslim Brotherhood opposition.
Nor does there appear to be any interest on the part of President Morsi to pull back from his promise to demand, upon arriving in the U.S., the release of the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind behind the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center. He has also no interest in having constructive discussions on his government’s decision to enforce Sharia on its citizens. While Egypt was far from a haven for human rights under the previous government, the advent of yet another U.S. strategic partner in the Middle East imposing Sharia without our protest makes a sham of our support for human rights, especially for those of women.
All of these issues should be prominently on the table when Morsi arrives in two weeks. What remains is an even more fundamental issue: Does the Administration truly understand the threat and the potential threat that radical Islam poses to our interests and our values? Perhaps the violence in Cairo will speed insight into just what it is we’re up against.
UPDATE: When I posted the article last night on Egyptian President Morsi and America’s challenges with his leadership in the Middle East, the violence at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, as well as the murderous attack on American diplomatic officials in Libya, had not yet been fully known.
Now we’ve seen the reaction from the Obama Administration on both, and frankly, it’s appalling, particularly when Secretary of State Clinton chooses to not dwell on the Egyptian attacks (given the Morsi visit in ten days, are we surprised?).
And based on this report from Wired, the administration and its foreign policy team appear to be not only out of their depth, but clearly under the impression that the U.S. must do all it can to placate the radical Muslim community, whether for domestic consumption here in the U.S. to maintain good relations with the American-Muslim community in a political year, or overseas to maintain what the administration apparently believes are good relations with the Muslim communities overseas.
Based on what we’ve seen in the last 24 hours, not only is the Obama Administration out of touch with the realities of America’s standing among Islamic countries, its people are actually making the situation worse.
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Jeri Thompson serves on the advisory board of SecureAmericaNow.org., a bipartisan foundation focused on national security issues, particularly in the Middle East.
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Alan| 9.12.12 @ 7:48AM
"Does the Administration truly understand the threat and the potential threat that radical Islam poses to our interests and our values?"
Good lord man, the marx-o-muslim thing in the WH endorses it. Some of these writers need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Jack in Wi| 9.12.12 @ 8:04AM
Morsi is the future of the region. We have given the radicals the power they have, by our continual interference in these countries. Let just get the hell out. Every thing we touch has turned to ashes. Iraq has beem turned over the Shia friends of Iran instead of the secular Muslim and old friend of the USA Saddam Hussain. Afganistan and Pakistan are disasters. Everywhere we empower the radicals with our blundering. It is time that we let these people figure it out for themselves. They have to sell their oil to live. Nobody else thinks it is necessary to be in the region. Let the Middle East be the problem of the Europeans , chinese, Japanese and Indians. They need the oil.
C. Vernon Crisler | 9.12.12 @ 10:56AM
Yes, I agree we need to get our MONEY the hell out of there.
TLP| 9.12.12 @ 2:26PM
"Yesterday's Embassy Stoning sets the stage for Egyptian President Morsi's upcoming visit to the U.S.
Where he should be SHOT ON SIGHT.
I'm just sayin.
DTOM| 9.12.12 @ 2:58PM
I say we send them a billion and a half dollars annually in lead and ordinance...that'd set em straight!
Light 'em up!
DTOM
Occam's Tool| 9.12.12 @ 7:08PM
So, he's meeting with Morsi, who allowed the storming of our embassy, and not with Netanyahu.
Jack supports this. He's a fool.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.12.12 @ 1:01PM
No one says it will be easy pulling out (being chased out) of the Mideast and Central Asia- but pull out we will.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.12.12 @ 1:03PM
..get used to it: W. Asia is no longer in our grasp in any way. We tried and lost.
Havoc| 9.12.12 @ 7:53AM
We should not allow Morsi entry into our country.
Jack in Wi| 9.12.12 @ 7:55AM
The more we interfere in these counties the more enemies we make and the more radicals come out of the woodwork. What does the author above suggest? That we start more wars by attacking Egypt, Libya again, Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, as well as the dozen wars we are still involved in.
This country is broke and our troops are broken. I just talked to a father of a marine yesterday. His son just returned from his 4th tour in Afganistan. another friend's nephew is headed back for a second tour even though he only has 5 months left in his enlistment. The military and intelligence communities are disgusted with the continual warmongering of our politicians. It is their blood that is shed for the political classes delusions. No more nonsense wars for no sane reason. Bring the troops home to their families now. Israel and the whole Middle East has never been worth one drop of American blood or one American dollar. If the Israeli's don't like the neighbors in the neighborhood they stole, they should just take their dual passports and leave. A million Jewish Israeli's already have.
C. Vernon Crisler | 9.12.12 @ 10:59AM
Hmm, I just talked to a coptic Egyptian a month ago, and she said that the democrats in Egypt lost, and the country has been taken over by Moslem fanatics, who are persecuting the Copts.
Strangely enough, she didn't blame Israel. Jack, however, has no such problem.
Stormy| 9.12.12 @ 10:59AM
Jack, which are you..Barack Obama or Hilliary Clinton? Your posts are clearly reflections of their policies and ideology.
nathan| 9.12.12 @ 8:17AM
Paul Ryan said in his speech that if you fight for freedom in your country let it be known that President Romney will be behind you. Consider this for a moment. You had Muburak, a ghastly human rights violator. No, that's not subject to debate, he treated the people in his country horribly as bad perhaps as Saddam Hussein did. He was also a confirmed kleptomaniac. One estimate put what he stole, a fair amount of it our money at 70 BILLION dollars. WOW. Even it was just 10 billion I mean still WOW.
So you have one million people in the streets of Cairo doing what Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence that when confronted by a despot and if Mubarak didn't meet the definition of one, the word has no meaning, you have not only the right but the OBLIGATION to deal with him.
Take Ryan at his word. Had Romney been president whose side would HE had been on, the despot or those fighting for freedom from the despot? According to the Ryan speech, taken at his word, he would have acted EXACTLY as BHO did.
So can we sort of quit ranting and raving at BHO about this? And quit defending Mubarak? The current guy may be not all that great either, but maybe, just maybe if president after president hadn't chosen to be enablers to the guy before him, things MIGHT be better now. Maybe.
Von Mises Jr| 9.12.12 @ 8:27AM
If nathan is not also Perp, he is apparently just as ignorant and vile. I think we need to put out a troll alert on nathan. Any objections?
nathan| 9.12.12 @ 9:17AM
Sir: You wouldn't care to say specifically where I'm ignorant would you? I mean, Muburak WASN'T a human rights violator? Wasn't Egypt where we sent the Canadian to be tortured? (Or was it Morocco?) He DIDN'T steal 10's of billions of dollars? Someone on Cavuto's show gave the 70 billion figure. If you disagree, "factually" disagree. Otherwise . . . . Ryan DIDN'T say if you are fighting for freedom in your country MR . . . ? Jefferson DIDN'T say in the Declaration that if you are confronted with a despot you have not only a right but an obligation to deal with the despot? Mubarak WASN'T a despot? I mean if you had been living in Egypt under his rule, you wouldn't have risen up against him?
Would you care sir, to tell me ONE just ONE factual error in what I said? Just one? If you disagree with my conclusion fine. But where was I FACTUAL wrong. Call me names if you will, that's easy, but would you care to back them up with FACTS. Or is that asking a trifle too much?
Boar Hunter| 9.12.12 @ 10:42AM
You always come up with the wrong conclusion.
People watch as you and other liberals of your ilk write down 1+1, then promptly declare the answer 26.
The response to your failure to grasp such a childish equation is like shifting a car going 50 mph into reverse.
In your world, you simply decide the answer you want to hear is 26 and then construct some elaborate nonsensical equation to force something as simple as 1+1 to fit your paradigm.
Your dependably ignorant conclusions shock the conscious of any rational human, who simply stands amazed and outraged as you contort the truth and facts to fit your perverted world view.
No one is going to venture into the quagmire of mental gymnastics it took to reach the conclusion you came to and expect to come out of the debate sane. You "sir" simply make stuff up to suit your own desires and declare them true.
Von Mises Jr. is correct in thinking and stating that no one should bother to respond to you. As I said yesterday, you are so aggressively ignorant that you are incapable of having any light of reason enter your mind.
You seem young, perhaps someday you will redeem yourself.
Von Mises Jr| 9.12.12 @ 10:47AM
Boar Hunter, you know it's Perp, caucksackie, nathan, whatever. Perp is fantasizing about hot dogs and tea bags. Next he will be cornholio.
Boar Hunter| 9.12.12 @ 11:35AM
Oh my! "cornholio" ROMFFLMHAO!
TLP| 9.12.12 @ 2:28PM
I don't get it.
Boar Hunter| 9.12.12 @ 3:26PM
I though you would understand it if no one else did. Roll On the M F'n floor laughin my happy Ass off.
Occam's Tool| 9.12.12 @ 7:14PM
TLP: Beavis and Butthead. Beavis, who is the more, shal we say, "syndromic" of the two, goes around shouting: "I am the great Cornholio! I need some TP for my bunghole!"
Beavis makes about as much sense as Nathan, Cheesehead Jack, and Barack Obama.
Now, turning to something you already know, TLP, and will agree with: The correct response to Egypt is to destroy the Aswan Dam. It will teach them a necessary lesson about what NOT to do to US Embassies. Pain is a lovely teaching tool; as Henlein noted, it is hardwired into us for that purpose. Enough of them learn a lesson like this, and the attacks will stop. But reasoning with them is as futile as reasoning with that antisemitic scumbag Cheesehead Jack.
By the way, Cheesehead, your Packers are going to be beaten real well this year. Suh is gonna rip Rodgers a new one.
Occam's Tool| 9.12.12 @ 7:15PM
Sorry: "shall we say..."
Von Mises Jr| 9.12.12 @ 10:43AM
Listen Perp, or tea bagger caucksackie, or whatever……our Founders made it VERY clear that you need civil society with morals to have a democratic Federalist and Constitutional Republic.
Perhaps you may try to instill a democratic government on the chimps at the Bronx Zoo. It is almost as difficult as doing the same with your chums at OWS or in Cairo.
2Anglico| 9.12.12 @ 12:11PM
Nathan is the guy who manufactures those stupid COEXIST bumper stickers.
Nick| 9.12.12 @ 7:27PM
"You wouldn't care to say specifically where I'm ignorant would you?"
You said that Mubarak was as bad as Saddam Hussein, Nathan the Troll.
That is IGNORANT!
Mubarak kept his thumb on the Muslim Brotherhood. And, rightly so. They did assassinate Sadat, after all.
Oh, you wouldn't know that, because you KNOW NOTHING about world events and history.
Bob K| 9.12.12 @ 8:29AM
Sure.
Maybe things would have been better then. Maybe?
And maybe things will be better now. Maybe?
2Anglico| 9.12.12 @ 11:40AM
So let's see if I get this right, Nathan... Thomas Jefferson should have raided the French or Spanish embassy and raised the "Don't Tread On ME" flag because King George was stealing (Taxation Without Representation) from his own subjects?
Jacob McCandles| 9.12.12 @ 5:23PM
Jefferson: violence for the cause of freedom
Cairo: violence for the cause of religious oppression.
Very, very different.
The Big E| 9.12.12 @ 12:08PM
You sir, obviously do not understand the meaning of the word "freedom."
I will not dispute that Mubarak was a bad guy, and I will not claim that Egyptians were "free" under his rule, but the people gathering in the streets of Cairo were not fighting for "freedom." They were fighting to be rid of Mubarak, and have replaced him with something far, far more repressive. They know to use terms like "freedom," and to claim such values as their driving motivation, because they know doing so will fool people like you into comparing them to the likes of Jefferson.
And so you do. You compare a group of people who seek impose Sharia law on Egyptians with the author of the Declaration of Independence, and so blind to reality that you cannot even see just how utterly absurd such a comparison is.
The people who overthrew the Mubarak regime were NOT freedom fighters - as evidenced by the fact they have no interest whatsoever in freedom - but instead, impose the harshest form of tyranny on those whom they supposedly "liberated."
You may fall for their words - as they intended you to - I, however, prefer to examine their actions.
John Navratil| 9.12.12 @ 3:19PM
The Big E,
The concept of a tyranny of the majority has been around since the ancient Greeks. Some people call it democracy and others know better. The Copts won't be confused, if they live.
Drunken Sailor| 9.12.12 @ 12:29PM
"but maybe, just maybe if president after president hadn't chosen to be enablers to the guy before him, things MIGHT be better now. Maybe"
This seems to sum up all your arguments Nathan. You want to dwell and live in the past and play the "What if we had/had not" game. Yet very little on what should be done now. Then you complain when people call you out on it. Your's is the game of speculation and it is old.
Mimi | 9.12.12 @ 8:25AM
This visit, should be put off.....for now. What is it they want from us? He didn't stop the uprising and desecration of our FLAG...Now is no time to talk about anything. All aid must stop....all the years we helped their military is coming back to haunt us! Folks....Pray for ISRAEL !
Von Mises Jr| 9.12.12 @ 8:33AM
Bill Ayers, friend of Obama also desecrated our flag and attacked our government buildings. If Obama can launch his political career in the living room of a terrorist, why shouldn't he Yuk it up with Morsi?
Elections have consequences. Now people can see more of exactly what those consequences are. Did not the big Opoligizer immediately take the side of the Islamist and grovel?
Not only should "Independents" vote for Romney, but I demand and insist that they apologize to conservatives.
MelvinNC| 9.12.12 @ 8:36AM
And now we have a dead ambassador, and two senior members. Do some of you know what it is like to die by suffixation?
It is a slow an agonizing way to die. By reports, that is how our ambassador was murdered. Oh sure, how generous was the mob to give up the bodies, so that they can be flown home.
As I noted elsewhere. This appears to have Iranian fingerprints on it. The instant mob, RPG's, and the instant of giving up the bodies instead of the usual mob of parading them around and desecrating them.
We have been at war with Iran since 1979, and Iran is winning.
But the American male has been emasculated, so it of no surprise in Washington's response.
Gayla| 9.12.12 @ 1:47PM
Our Ambassador was dragged through the streets, I believe.
http://www.teapartynation.com/.....share_post
TLP| 9.12.12 @ 2:30PM
If our Fathers were still in charge?
Both of these places would be Smoldering Rubble, already.
Houdini| 9.12.12 @ 4:04PM
TLP,
If our fathers were in charge, we wouldn't have to have these discussions.
Occam's Tool| 9.12.12 @ 7:16PM
Bengazi must be destroyed. Lessons must be learnt. What would the Great Julius do?
Louis Jenkins| 9.12.12 @ 9:10AM
America's reaction to Eygpt and Morsi' apparent lack of action to quell the support Iran movement is a slap in our faces. Lybia's protesters who killed the ambassador are murderers. His death will only be an afterthought in DC tomorrow. Time to wake up America (although I'm tired of chanting this well worn phrase) the enemy will soon be here, and how many will die then?
Al Adab| 9.12.12 @ 9:39AM
Will President Obama meet with Marsi while refusing a similar meeting with Netanyahu? These are the actions which reveal the truth about U S foreign policy under this administration. It is one thing to love your enemies and quite another to disregard your friends.
Pecos Pete| 9.12.12 @ 10:00AM
AA: Exactly my thought. Obama will meet in NY with Morsi and will not meet with Netanyahu.
And Obama will announce that the USA will give $X billion more to Egypt and Libya in foreign aid to atone for our sins.
When will we hear from Congress? When will Congress stop this crap? Probably never.
Drunken Sailor| 9.12.12 @ 12:34PM
Al, sadly they will not meet with Netanyahu (schedule was full, Letterman appearnces and all) but it sure seems he will meet with Marsi. I would almost bet a bottle of scotch on it.
Al Adab| 9.12.12 @ 3:09PM
He will indeed meet with Marsi so sadly we are on the same side of the bet. Glad to split the bottle with you though.
Drunken Sailor| 9.12.12 @ 4:44PM
I don't know about sadly being on the same side. Sounds like a reason to celebrate over scotch to me. I plan on picking one up to drink from after the election. Either to celebrate or drown my sorrow.
Al Adab| 9.12.12 @ 5:48PM
I think it was National Review that said if Obama wins there won't be enough room on the after election cruise ship for the booze required. Have a great night.
Who Knows?| 9.12.12 @ 9:57AM
Islam = clitorectomies.
Women's rights?
Hah!
How about this---all you brave men out there, either convert to Islam or we cut off your penis!
Jacob McCandles| 9.12.12 @ 5:29PM
women are slaves in Saudi Arabia. Cant drive, can't vote, cant leave the house without permission and a guardian, can't dress or act as they please, can't speak their mind, etc etc etc.
the fact that our feminist groups in this country have not been on a crusade against islam is utterly ridiculous. We beat ouselves up about slavery to this day, even after so many died to stop it. Where are the anti-slavery voices where women are concerned? Oh, I guess it's a problem only when men are enslaved. What a f------ joke these NOW women are.
Jobe| 9.13.12 @ 2:00AM
Mr. McCandles: Your post is totally on target. As an addition, think about the liberal LOVE for totalitarian dictators like Castro, Chavez, Mao, and others of that ilk. Isn't it truly a conundrum that these liberal lovers of liberty swoon at the feet of those who deny in the starkest terms freedom and liberty to their people?
Houdini| 9.12.12 @ 10:42AM
Let the POS egyptian come on over (before the election). What better way to show the American people what an idiot we have in the White House.
Stormy| 9.12.12 @ 10:58AM
"Does the Administration truly understand the threat and the potential threat that radical Islam poses to our interests and our values?"
Wrong. The question is whether the Administration's interests and values are the same as radical Islam. It appears that they are.
JeMeRappelle| 9.12.12 @ 11:16AM
Who wants to bet on how quickly our Leader turns "the blind sheik" over to Egypt?
Bill8472| 9.12.12 @ 11:33AM
Osama bin Laden was SO 2011!
KennesawJack| 9.12.12 @ 12:23PM
The Saudis and Jordanians, as well as the Emirates have got to just love this little circle jerk going on between the Egyptians and the Iranians. You know the old saw, My enemy's enemy is my friend. "Hello, Bibi. This is King Abdullah. How 'ya doin'? Listen, I was wondering if you needed to borrow our airspace for a little while. Yeah, the Jordanians are OK with that, too. The Emirates? Only to happy to oblige. Let us know if you need to make a pit stop or two. Great! Be talkin' to you. 'Bye."
Bob K| 9.12.12 @ 12:57PM
Morsi will be here in 2 weeks.
Does anybody here think that there will be any talk or action taken by the Romney organization in those 2 weeks about organizing a march to Washington DC to peaceably picket the Egyptian and Libyan embassies?
cicero| 9.12.12 @ 1:59PM
You are all looking in the wrong direction. Mubarak, Khadafi, and the others that were there when those leaders weakened, were toppled, and the army in each country sided with the winner. Saudi Arabia has been imprisoning Brotherhood leadders for the past 60 years, or so. Don't be suprised if the House of Saud is the next to topple. The Emirates, and the Kingdoms are also within sight. With this little demonstration of power, even to the extent of sticking a burning stick into the eye of the Superpower, the Arab world has been shown who has the power..
The Brotherhood is in the process of solidifying its hold on the entire Middle East. My only question is whether it will be the Iranian Mullahs, or some other group who will end up with all the marbles. Look for a unified callifate from the Balkans to the African Atlantic. Once they have control of the oil (which they will continue to sell to the West/Europe), they can buy all the weapons they will need to attack Europe.
Mike G| 9.12.12 @ 2:12PM
"...under the impression that the U.S. must do all it can to placate the radical Muslim community..."
Both Egypt and Libya owe us big, but all they give us is hatred. I vote we placate them using stealth bombers and missiles.
Minuteman78| 9.12.12 @ 2:31PM
A 50-megaton dropped on the Pyramids ought to do it. It'd improve the looks of that area, considering what happens to sand when you get it very very hot.
Houdini| 9.12.12 @ 4:03PM
My grandchildren would, I'm sure, look forward to viewing the Pyramids of glass.
Mickle | 9.13.12 @ 12:05AM
Arab Spring" uprising and the revolution in Egypt, it appears that this newly elected president is ready to bring Egypt into a full embrace of radical Islam, with stronger ties to Iran, and, as the embassy-storming indicates, a very different relationship with America .
Carroll | 9.13.12 @ 12:09AM
You know your party is in trouble when Mr. Stein is telling your party’s leader what to say.
Jobe| 9.13.12 @ 1:53AM
This jabone, Morsi, should be told to stay OUT of the USA. He should be denied the millions that obama's state department lavishes on him, and he should be presented to the American people as the muslim terrorist America hater that he is. I know that obama, the great appologizer will never have a strong enough backbone to stand up and do the right thing, but in the long run, his weakness might be exposed and his presidency will finally be viewed as the danger that it is.
2ifbySEA| 9.20.12 @ 11:42AM
This administration not only understands the threay posed by Radical Islam.. they are embracing its Conspirators and welcome the new tide of Despotism which soon be thrust upon America- they will gain more control and power and we will be slaughtered or compliant. Isn't that the way Marxofascism works?