A Beginning and an End

The rapidly changing developments in Egypt likely mark both a beginning and an end.  The toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Cairo has begun the long-needed revisiting of a grave strategic error – namely, the Obama administration’s enthusiasm for that Islamic supremacist group and the resulting U.S. help to its efforts to impose shariah there and elsewhere.

With the Brotherhood declaring that it will oppose the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi and the violence that has ensued, there is now a real prospect of an Egyptian civil war.

As a result, no further serious consideration ought to be given to embroiling the United States in the one already raging in nearby Syria.  No good can come of implicating ourselves in such conflicts – especially on the side of jihadists like the Muslim Brotherhood.