College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  International Relations

For three weeks the people of Egypt have been demonstrating their disgust with the government….mostly peaceful with the except of a couple of days when Mubarak sent in the dogs to beat the hell out of the opposition……for the most part the US has been doing what I consider the best thing…..staying out of it and working behind the scenes to keep it peaceful and to find a possible solution….but keeping in mind that it is Egypt and only Egyptians have a final voice on what that solution will be…….

But as usual there are those on the Right that are bitching about the Prez and his handling of the whole Egyptian situation….and some have even come down on the side of Mubarak who has kept the people under his thumb for thirty years while receiving billions upon billions of US foreign aid…..

All this reminds me of the lunatics on the Right how they are always referring to what the “Founders” had to say or think or meant…….okay then let us go with that……

Jefferson said that we Americans should export the “Empire of liberty”…….  meaning?

“We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace [ending the American Revolution]…we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.” – Jefferson to George Rogers Clark, 25 December 1780^.

Meaning?  Jefferson thought and believed that it was America’s job and responsibility to spread freedom across the globe…….so if Jefferson considered it our job to spread democracy, why would the people that pretend to speaker for the Founders be so against the US doing just that?

By the US staying out of the fray we are doing exactly what Jefferson wanted…..we are letting the people of Egypt decide their own future with democracy….may I suggest that people like Palin, DeMint, Beck and the rest of the lunatics on the Right…….stop using the Founders in ways that they NEVER intended…….or learn moree about the Founders so that you are correct when you invoke their names……

If one is into conspiracy theories….I have one for you….the Right is on the support Mubarak bandwagon because they are running scared….if the people win and there is no Islamic revolution then their whole premise for the fear factor goes in the crapper and with that they have NOTHING!

Egypt is for Egyptians!  And Jefferson would agree with me on this (may be the only thing that he would agree with me on)………