Egypt Seems to Have the Plan for Dealing with Isis that Obama Doesn't

By Elizabeth Nelson

Obama loves to make promises he never intends to keep, and ironically it's usually only our allies and enemies that can see through his smoke screens and B.S. 

So, is it any wonder that, although Obama keeps telling his American people he's "building a coalition to confront ISIS," we the people only see the smoke, as we don't know who is even going to be in it, and our allies see that Obama doesn't have a plan, so they are starting to take matters into their own hands and are making plans of their own.  Even Egypt who kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood in their country, the terrorists who we helped fund so there is no love lost there, has a plan to fight ISIS.

Egyptian leaders — unlike our own – seem to “get” the strategic perspective on combating Islamic terrorism and jihadism. As reported by CNS News, “During Secretary of State John Kerry’s weekend visit to Cairo, his Egyptian counterpart pushed for the new international focus on countering terrorism to go beyond Syria and Iraq, arguing that the same ideology espoused by the jihadists there is driving other Islamist extremists, including those in Egypt’s neighboring territories.

A spokesman for President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi said that in talks with Kerry the president had “stressed that any international coalition against terrorism must be a comprehensive alliance that is not limited to confront a certain organization or to curb a single terrorist hotbed but must expand to include all the terrorist hotbeds across the Middle East and Africa.”

Egypt along with another Arab nation, the United Arab Emirates, has engaged in air strikes against Islamist militias in neighboring Libya. We also know the al-Sisi government in Egypt ousted the Muslim Brotherhood government to the chagrin of the Obama administration. And it is Egypt who has taken a hard line stance against the Islamic terrorist group, Hamas. So why aren’t we getting commitments from Egypt and UAE to combat the Islamo-fascist ideology and to first defeat ISIS? Perhaps there is a trust factor?

In a most revealing statement, during a joint press appearance with Kerry, Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri underlined the point, calling for a fight against Islamist terrorists “wherever they may be.” “I support the international efforts to fight terrorism and work on supporting these efforts, and support the necessary measures to put an end to this phenomenon, whether in Iraq, Libya, any part of the Arab world, or in Africa,” he said.

CNS says, “in reply to a question about possible links between ISIS and Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a terrorist group based in the Sinai peninsula, he said the two organizations were linked through a common ideologically and vision, even if they portray themselves differently.” Read more AllenWest

Now that Obama has been painted a Terrorist sympathizer, because he funds terrorists, Egypt understands that the head of our Country, not necessarily Country as a whole, stands besides with the terrorists. How are they supposed to trust us or turn their backs to us? Sadly, this is yet another difference between Bush and Obama, Bush didn't have a problem pulling a Coalition together, or having them follow him.  

Even Putin told Bush that he shouldn't go into Iraq alone, and helped him form the Coalition. He was very clear and concise with his plans and definitive about who the enemy was, what the threat was, and how they could help each other defeat the problem. Can we really see Putin or any of them calling Obama a "friend" as he called Bush a friend?