How's That Arab Spring Working Out In Egypt?

Middle East: Mass bloodshed followed by Islamist rule is in Egypt's future thanks to President Obama's Mideast destabilization policy. A hijacked "Arab Spring" isn't limited to the land of the pharaohs, either.

A promise of mid-2012 presidential elections hasn't appeased Cairo's demonstrators, who demand an immediate end to the military rule that began after the ouster of dependable U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak as president early this year.

A round of parliamentary elections are promised for next week, but dozens have died in the clashes of the last several days. Unfortunately, ordered liberty doesn't come naturally to cultures that have never known it.

Media-driven wishful thinking notwithstanding, the signs are that freedom won't be coming to Egypt soon. The Egyptian branch of the international Muslim Brotherhood is sure to dominate next week's vote.

As Andrew McCarthy, the federal prosecutor who brought the 1993 World Trade Center bombers to justice, warned in his book "The Grand Jihad," "the political process — riding on terrorism's back, but not getting its hands dirty with explosives — is the Brotherhood's chosen path for achieving its ends."

British Mideast expert John R. Bradley, author of the soon-to-be-published "After the Arab Spring: How the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts," promises that "The implementation of their hard-line religious agenda will follow" a Brotherhood electoral victory, "including the implementation of Islamist sharia law."

Writing in London's Daily Mail, fluent Arabic speaker Bradley warns that "Egypt is a microcosm of what is happening throughout the region. In Tunisia — previously the most secular and progressive country in the region — the Islamists triumphed last month at the ballot box," then instantly set a goal of returning to the Muslim Caliphate.

Post-Gadhafi Libya, meanwhile, "has imposed sharia law and legalized polygamy, while the flag of al-Qaida now flies over the government offices in Benghazi," Bradley points out.

Why is it all happening now? In significant part because President Obama has used the bully pulpit to destabilize the Mideast. His 2009 Cairo speech practically implored Egyptians to revolt against Mubarak and his ilk. And in his post-Arab Spring May 2011 State Department speech, the president endorsed Israel's indefensible 1967 borders, and declared that when it comes to Islamic nations, "America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard, even if we disagree with them. And sometimes we profoundly disagree with them."

The trouble is that the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy of "civilizational jihad" consists of skillfully posing as a peaceful, law-abiding voice.

The current leader of al-Qaida, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, for many years sought to assassinate Mubarak, believing it "would create a power vacuum" after which, using "parliamentary elections, alternative Islamist movements could take charge," as Lawrence Wright described it in his Pulitzer-winning history of al-Qaida, "The Looming Tower."

Obama might think he is spreading democracy. He has actually been inadvertently creating exactly the kind of power vacuums that al-Qaida and other jihadists have for years been praying to Allah for.