MADNESS – AT 10:32 A.M. ET:  The Obama administration has shown its expertise at making enemies out of friends and worse enemies out of existing enemies.  They are brilliant.  Consider this, from ace defense reporter Bill Gertz, in The Washington Free Beacon: 

The Obama administration has turned down an urgent appeal from Egypt’s government for the delivery of U.S. Apache attack helicopters needed for counterterrorism operations in the Sinai Peninsula.

U.S. officials and a Western diplomat said the 10 AH-64 attack helicopters had been blocked from delivery in October in response to the administration’s opposition to the military ouster of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammad Morsi last year.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo within the past several weeks relayed the Egyptian government’s appeal to send the new Apaches in a cable to the State Department.

According to U.S. officials, the Egyptians said the attack helicopters were urgently needed for Cairo’s fight in the Sinai against a new al Qaeda-linked terrorist group called Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, or Ansar Jerusalem.

One official said the embassy cable reported that the Egyptians do not understand why the Obama administration, by blocking delivery of the Apaches, appears to be supporting the ousted Morsi regime.

Morsi is Muslim Brotherhood, and Obama, who never let anti-Americanism bother him, is sympathetic to that group.

The embassy stated that the Egyptians’ explained that their security needs should be met or the United States risks turning Cairo into an enemy, something the Egyptians do not favor.

“The Egyptians are fighting in the Sinai to protect their own interests, Jordanian interests, and Israeli interests,” the official said. “They’re in a tough fight and the administration is refusing to provide the Apaches, which is tantamount to supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.”

An Egyptian Embassy spokesman had no comment. However, a western diplomat familiar with the issue confirmed that the Apaches were requested recently and the response was that U.S. military aid remains on hold.

Asked about Egypt’s request for Apaches, a senior administration official told the Washington Free Beacon: “At this time we have no announcements to make regarding changes to our assistance to the government of Egypt.”

COMMENT:  They said of Harry Truman that he did the biggest things in the biggest ways and the littlest things in the littlest ways.  Obama does everything in the littlest ways.  His spitefulness toward the government of Egypt is horrendous.  We worked decades to get Egypt, the most important Arab country, on our side.  Now Obama, showing his love for the Brotherhood, is throwing it all away, and endangering both Jordan and Israel in the process. 

Obama would be a wonderful president, of a student government.  He'd make sure the students could keep their same dorm room, if they liked it.

March 13, 2014