Like I said, if George W. Bush or any of the current Republican contenders for the White House were there right now, this mentality would not be confined to the nutcases who show up at CPAC — it would be driving U.S. policy toward Egypt and in the Middle East in general.
BooMan wonders if Frank Gaffney has lost his last two marbles:
I am beginning to wonder if it isn’t an act. Maybe Frank Gaffney is genuinely insane. He’s very well-educated. He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown and a graduate degree from Johns Hopkins. Both degrees involved international affairs. He’s not ignorant. He’s got quite a strong neo-conservative pedigree, having worked on Scoop Jackson’s staff and served under Richard Perle in Ronald Reagan’s Defense Department. For a long time I just thought he was saying whatever would serve neo-conservative ends. But he’s now in an open rift with other neo-conservatives like Bill Kristol, who basically thinks that Gaffney and Beck have taken their Islamophobia to absurd and destructive lengths.Gaffney has dabbled in birtherism, he’s accused the president for two years now of advancing the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda, and he’s intimated that the president wants to install Shariah Law in the United States. And now he’s telling people that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has “come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law.” He’s blaming Grover Norquist, of all people, of being a mole for jihadists.
The problem is, CPAC is crammed wall to wall with people who think exactly the same way he does. And I don’t even want to think about how much harm those thought patterns would be doing to U.S. national security and Americans’ real best interests if it were informing our foreign policy right now.
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