“Replacing secular regimes with Islamic regimes sounds pretty dumb – unless that’s what Obama wants to do.”

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Hat tip to Dan Friedman of NYC, who notes:

“Replacing secular regimes with Islamic regimes sounds pretty dumb – unless that’s what Obama wants to do.” —  df

This is — so far — the best explanation I’ve read about why it is NOT in our interest to get involved in the viper’s nest in the Middle East.  Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.  He knows of what he speaks…

www.nationalreview.com

March 26, 2011

Decoding Libya

What overwhelmingly unites [the Libyan rebels], besides opposition to Qaddafi, is sharia. If we empower them, we will eventually rue the day.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

For nearly 20 years, we’ve willfully blinded ourselves to the Rosetta Stone that decodes our enemy’s war doctrine. But the jihad (or shall we call it “kinetic Islam”?) is catalyzed not by al-Qaeda but by sharia — by Muslim law. So is the “Arab Spring,” now playing in Tripoli (and elsewhere) after rave reviews in Cairo.

I have been opposed to our country’s starting a war against Libya. And starting a war is exactly what we have done, exactly what we would call it if the shoe were on the other foot — the “kinetic” and “limited” obfuscations of intervention proponents notwithstanding. My opposition is fourfold.

First, as a constitutional matter…

Here’s the rest.

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